Ep. 489 Michael Fraser Explains the Pentagon Decision to Dump Claude
Michael Fraser is a business consultant on leading LLMs, with an extensive knowledge of praxeology. He joins Bob to discuss the Pentagon’s decision to sever ties with Anthropic and even designate them a supply chain risk.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The YouTube version of this interview.
- Anthropic CEO’s statement in response to Hegseth decision.
- Academic paper putting leading LLMs into a wargame.
- Good examples of “jailbreaking” safeguards on LLMs.
- The BMS interview of Steve Landsburg discussing Grothendiek.
- Michael Fraser’s interview on the InFi podcast, discussing LLMs as a cauldron, not a crystal ball.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
This comment (mildly rewritten) didn’t pass moderation … maybe have this guest on to learn about local LLM’s?
~That Guy’s Original Message:
The only mention of local LLM’s is “You’d need $100,000 to run Claude” ….
Technically close to true but you don’t need Claude. You can run gpt-oss-20b or quen3.5 4B on a $100 laptop. You can run them on a phone. Try the new qwens on whatever hardware you have and ask yourself if you really want your every thought and life-move being monitored by satan.
The vector of this show was directing people to “you will own nothing and be happy” model. Please host a guest that can teach listeners about LLM’s that you can own and control — LLM’s that don’t feed the borg all your thoughts and life-data.
Any reader of this is advised to GOTO r/localllama and learn to run their own LLM.
I bumped heads with Grok over Randianism (Objectivism) … eg. the validity of “intellectual property” … seems like Musk hardcoded this into Grok, because it’s not even the mainstream position. It was unable to reason through the copying/stealing distinction, unable to explain the harm done, it just kept looping Randianisms. Creepy.