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I wonder how many of these are false flag operations. Pushing for AI regulation, after the market has been captured by the 2 top dogs.

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Who else is going to compete? Everyone in this space already has gonzo capital, massive data centers, $1M salaries, etc.

I.e. employees are choosing to quit their jobs to run a false flag operation?

Hmm, that's literally what this is asserting:

https://x.com/ParkerThayer/status/2097759699626328575

but then how would you explain this, are they all "in on it"?

https://x.com/TaylorPopielarz/status/2097710620187455954

> I wonder how many of these are false flag operations.

If I may ask, could you elaborate on what you mean?

See the second sentence.

The idea being that the employee(s) quit in order to run the false flag? Are their other historical examples of employees quitting to run false flags?

I questioned how many of these articles around the HuggingFace incident are false flag operations.

This specific scenario, I can think of a few ways to accomplish this:

- the person isn't a real person. - the person is using a different, fake name. - the employee is paid to quit, change their name, rejoin later on. details sealed in an agreement. - add other options.

Is there any evidence to indicate that is true? Or does the evidence we have indicate the opposite? For example - "the person isn't a real person" - is the argument that Jacob Coxon is a made-up person? Or which of these incidents do you believe this occurred with? Or would you say the evidence shows the opposite of what you claimed?

You asked 5 questions in return. After I gave the op just a few plausible ways. Absence of evidence does not make something implausible.

Capture a market. Become big enough to jump hurdles XYZ due to scale and amount of, say, lawyers and compliance officers you can field. Then push for more compliance. It’s effectively a moat and one of the most durable kind since lawmakers aren’t very agile. It also opens a second front (first front being: product) to go up against newcomers. Kindly point out to the regulatory agencies that they are not compliant and demand enforcement due to “equal playing field”.

To make this point concrete: KYC in banks in Europe is on a scale of 1000s FTE per bank. No newcomer can ever comply with KYC the way big banks have implemented this by pure meat. Trouble ensue for all newcomer. That’s a moat!

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