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Israel has been notorious for this for ages. China, too.

I'm sorry to be nitpicking like this, because I absolutely empathise with what you wanted to say. However, if you really think the US is the only country that does this, you haven't been paying attention.

That's how the Carboniferous got its name--it literally means "bringing coal"!

Undercut? I believe the word you're looking for is "outcompeted".

Here on HN we're definitely a minority, but in the real world, saying you want to be in the office isn't that weird.

Sure, but who's going to pay me for my capacity to relate? How am I going to convert that into rent?

There's a reason it's called Namecheap not Namesafe.

How in the name of fuck was a fridge even designed to be able to heat itself to 50 degrees C?

The username checks out!

("Ept" and "suka" are two other swearwords, that are also used much like punctuation.)

Eh, but so what? Even if everyone really was a jerk, something holding them back from revealing it was still valuable.

The Yandex of today isn't exactly the Yandex of 2020. The people who were at the helm back then whitewashed their reputations, renamed to Nebius, and are now supplying compute to Palantir.

And incentives are sovereign over the humans. The humans leading the AI labs have every incentive in the world to move quickly without any restraint.

But OpenAI didn't just make the gun, they're also the ones wielding it. Imagine the Smith & Wesson CEO himself was negligent with his own personal gun.