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1. unglaublich · 1790240118 · focus · HN ↗

   This just screams pretext to regulatory capture to me.

   1. ben_w · 1790243940 · focus · HN ↗

      "We didn't even notice our agent was committing crimes against your government" is a way to get an extradition notice, and/or whatever the (in this case Australian) equivalent of a CIA assassination squad is*, sent after you.

      While I wouldn't put it past e.g. Musk or Zuckerberg to think themselves above such outcomes, and I trust the people who keep telling me Altman is just as bad, this is a really really terrible idea if he is doing that for something as mundane as a regulatory capture.

      * depending on the details of the hack; this doesn't look like it would be that, but given they shouldn't have done this at all, there's no reason to predict a specific level of maximum damage before being caught, and hence no reason to predict a specific threshold for government response.

      1. seanhunter · 1790249330 · focus · HN ↗

         I think the equivalent of sending a CIA assassination squad is to introduce the person to some authentic Australian wildlife. Exit Sam Altman persued by funnel-web spiders, drop bears and crazed wombats.

         1. someonebaggy · 1790259985 · focus · HN ↗

            Drop bears are fictitious FYI

            1. seanhunter · 1790263873 · focus · HN ↗

               Imagine my huge surprise!

               Next thing you'll tell me the Australian government doesn't have crack teams of crazed wombats and funnel-web spiders, trained for assassination purposes.

      2. crabmusket · 1790252756 · focus · HN ↗

         > and/or whatever the (in this case Australian) equivalent of a CIA assassination squad is*, sent after you

         Sounds like a great concept for the next season of Danger 5.

         1. ben_w · 1790254230 · focus · HN ↗

            I think Danger 5 are far too silly for that; if this was fictionalised, I think a more straightforward Bond plot, like how Elliot Carver in "Tomorrow Never Dies" was transparently a mix of Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell.

            That said, I can hear the accent in my head:

              The name's Bond. Bruce bloody Bond.
            

            Character's public domain soon, why not an Australian version?

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