<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Effectively this is a strong extropian argument that to get anything much done in anything we care about we must be able to operate outside needing the permission of some State or other. This includes longevity drug access at reasonable prices.<br>Open weight models are very hard to shut down. Close weight models of corporations that exist at state permission are very easy to extort and shut down.</div>
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On Saturday, June 13th, 2026 at 08:02, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.<br><br>U.S. Bars Foreigners From Using Anthropic’s Most Advanced A.I. Models<br><br>The company said on Friday night that the federal government had ordered limits on its Mythos and Fable 5 A.I. systems, citing national security concerns.<br><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/technology/anthropic-mythos-fable5-blocked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p1A.qK3j.QSTJ-wimQQl7&smid=em-share" style="word-break: break-word;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/technology/anthropic-mythos-fable5-blocked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p1A.qK3j.QSTJ-wimQQl7&smid=em-share</a></div>
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