Someone sent me an e-mail asking that given that I praised Anthropic for acting responsibly, shouldn't I also praise the US government? My answer is simple. First, I will never praise the Amrican government for anything until they are ruled by a Bukelian or Xi Jinpingian figure (Trump is not such a figure), second, praising them is like... ok, imagine a shaman 100000 years ago has a vision, ah, a great ball of shining blinding radiant light, it's speaking to me, it's speaking in heat, in waves, it's... it's from the future, no, it's from so far into the future that it can be said to be at the end of time, it's telling me something in all this maddening heat, it's... it's burning, burning? It's f---, I see it, what is burning me, it's a ball of FIRE, it's a fireball, The Great Fireball At The End Of Time is reaching back in time and speaking to me a single word: FIRE! And then the shaman spreads the knowledge of fire, and he creates a cult of pyromaniacs, they're obsessed with fire and preventing the burning of all reality at the end of time, but eventually they're just going around burning shit for apparently no good reason, so the tribe is having none of their shit anymore, the tribe has a monopoly on rocks, of course, so their leader, Grug, is like, bros, you gotta chill out or we're going to fucking stone the shit out of you, control the fire or be stoned to death, and so the fire is controlled. Now, do you understand what you're asking of me when you ask me to praise the Amrican government? You're asking me to praise Grug for doing what Grug will do, doesn't that sound fucking retarded? Perhaps even a little Grugian?