REVISED: Pentagon vs. Anthropic -- Trump fires "Mad Dog" Dario

Last update: Wednesday 4/1/26 10:30pm

This final version of an evolving report explains how Anthropic induced the Pentagon to cancel a partnership that never should have occurred.  It retains much shorter versions of previous sections of the report that discredited plausible alternative explanations of the breakup. The revised report does not include a final section yet in order to give the editor more time to consider the disturbing implications of a possibility that he has been rejecting for the last five weeks.

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Anthropic vs. Millions of White Collar Employees

Last update: Friday 3/27/26 11:52am

This report is the last section of a long report (found HERE) that argued that Anthropic should not have offered its services to the Pentagon because Anthropic’s idealism was a bad fit for the Pentagon’s pragmatism. The founders of Anthropic had angrily departed their former employer OpenAI because they felt that its CEO Sam Altman was too pragmatic. To be specific, they felt that he didn’t give sufficient attention to minimizing the risks that users of OpenAI's generative AI services might encounter. But as argued in the full report, war is what happens when diplomacy fails. Leaders of the Pentagon must be ruthlessly pragmatic because they have to mobilize their war fighters to do things in times of war that would have been unthinkable for them to do in times of peace. This was a bad partnership that was doomed to fail, 

The final section of the full report had far greater negative impact because it found that that Anthropic itself now posed the greatest generative AI threat thus far to the employment of millions of white collar employees in America and millions more around the world. The editor is reposting it as a separate report because it is well worth reading on its own.

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Pentagon vs Anthropic … Another bad marriage that was doomed to fail

Last update: Friday 3/27/26 11:52am

The editor of this blog is an old guy who has a long memory for actions taken by his government in previous wars that resulted in shocking casualties inflicted on babies, children, and other innocent noncombatants.

Nevertheless, war is what happens when diplomacy fails. Therefore a Department of War must be run by pragmatic leaders who mobilize its war fighters to do things in times of war that would be unthinkable for them to do in times of peace.

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DARPA -- America's reliable source of game changing technology

Last update: Tuesday 3/10/26 12:38

DARPA identifies new technologies that could have dual use, then engages leading experts in our universities and other research institutions as consultants and/or contractors in a cluster of interrelated component projects, each of which develops selected aspects of the needed new technology. DARPA also alerts some production companies of its new tech from time to time and obtains their input as to how the new tech could be enhanced to achieve greater commercial success.

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Apple's iPhone as the prototype for China's future success via its dominance of rare earth processing

 Last update: Monday 3/8/26 11:05am

Deng Xiaoping, the 'father of modern China', implored his country's leaders in 1992 to greatly enhance its power by attaining a position of unchallengeable dominance of the world's markets rare earth elements (REEs).  Rare earths would be for China what oil was for the Middle East. Ever since then, China has been developing an ecosystem that is centered on its rare earth mining and processing assets. 

China's evolving ecosystem facilitated the phenomenal success that Steve Jobs achieved by locating the production of his visionary iPhone in China. In other words, China's successful production of Jobs' vision was a 'proof of concept' for Deng's vision. China's ecosystem would ensure that the iPhone's success would be a prototype for future success, not a never-to-be-repeated one-off. 

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