I was vague and imprecise in asserting that METR was not, and could not be, impartial concerning Anthropic, and that it was hopelessly conflicted.
This is a more precise explanation of my problem with this proposed arrangement.
I appreciate that Dean Ball, Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI and former Senior Policy Advisor to the White House, is just directly saying, under his legal name, that the purpose of introducing nonsensical regulations is to hurt open source and favor incumbent corporations