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What is going on at Anthropic?

First, it comes out that on some specified subset of queries they will simply downgrade you to a different model. One example is if you are doing model research. Imagine OSX shutting down if it detects you’re working on software.

And now they’ve decided that they’ll just shut off access to the model completely as part of what seems to be a sort of marketing stunt or temper tantrum.

They’re a service provider. Can you imagine AWS just deciding you’re getting nullrouted over some unrelated fight they’re having with the DoD?

If they weren’t a supply chain risk before this, they’re sort of doing everything they can to become one.

Is there any obvious way to detect if you’ve gotten owned by this?

This is bad advice. The choice depends on which is more popular in your area. For me in Phoenix that’s meshtastic.

Meshtastic is really cool! The heltec v4 is the best board for it you can get on Amazon.

Put it on your roof with a cheap solar panel meant for a security camera, and join it to your home WiFi.

Just use the little plastic case it came in as an enclosure. Cut a hole for the antenna and USB.

A slightly larger antenna will help. There are many on Amazon, and they’re cheap.

(I have tried lots of boards and this has been the best setup for me)

Well I certainly feel surveilled when I know that OpenAI will simply give up my data if asked.

If anthro is saying they won’t, that’s good!

Strength is saying what they were asked to do. I want to know!

Did the DoW ask them to make kill drones? Because if so THAT IS A REALLY BIG DEAL.

The vagueness is irritating. He’s saying they won’t do something, the DoW is saying they don’t even want them to do that, which should resolve the issue, but hasn’t. There is obviously something else at play here.

he said this

>no he didn’t he actually said the opposite of that and the link you just posted says the opposite of what you are claiming

but he might change his mind!

Okay?

GOOD. I don’t want Anthropic, or anybody else to have their tools used for these things either.

But Dario is showing weakness here by talking around it. Whatever they were asked to do, they should just be upfront about.

No, the DoW may be implicitly asking for those things.

That’s the point I’m trying to make here: Anthropic should just say the unsaid thing here.

DoW asked for the following thing: $foo. We won’t give that to them.

Because mass surveillance has been happening by every tech company under every president since George W. Bush, and despite everybody trying to stop it they haven’t been able to.

OpenAI has already said that they’ll give up whatever info the government wants if they’re issued a subpoena; they don’t have a choice.

The first sentence of that post is:

The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement.

Then Anthropic should say: this is what the DoW has asked for, and we aren’t able to do it, or don’t want to.

The DoW has explicitly said they don’t want this, and what you are describing are not automated kill drones.

Anthropic’s safeguards already prevent what you are describing, again the thing thar DoW has said they don’t want.

Right. Did the DoW ask for that? Or does Anthropic make a product that does that?

Did the DoW ask for these things?

This whole thing seems like people talking past each other, and that there’s something being left unsaid.

Anthropic doesn’t make a product that would assist with kill drones, and they don’t have the right to deny subpoenas.

Consider what the rise of things like shopify, squarespace, etc. did for developers.

In 2001, you needed an entire development team if you wanted to have an online business. Having an online business was a complicated, niche thing.

Now, because it has gotten substantially easier, there are thousands of times as many (probably millions of times) online stores, and many of them employ some sort of developer (usually on a retainer) to do work for them. Those consultants probably make more than the devs of 2001 did, too.

I think you're talking about Renee Good - who is the other person?

Especially when the software they're developing is supposed to speed up the speed at which the software they are developing is developed.

Can you elaborate on this more? What would be a task you would use claude code for, and what would accomplishing the task look like?

These are all over the place in Tempe, AZ. I see them cruising through my neighborhood all the time.

The funny thing is that there is usually a guy on an ebike following right behind, and he's usually just decked out in sortof tactical-ish gear. Full mask, head to toe in all black. I feel bad for whoever it is in the summer, because it gets really hot here.

Very interesting to see.

I will happily pay for high quality news. Every few months I check back in with The Financial Times to see if I can get it delivered to my house again (they used to deliver in Phoenix, but stopped, presumably they lost their printing partner here). My wife even tried to set up a PO box in another state and have the contents forwarded to us, but we could never get it working.

I also paid for Foreign Affairs for a long time, but eventually the quality of the paper (as in the physical material) dropped down a lot, and the number of ads went up.

Lapham's Quarterly (now defunct) wasn't really news, but happily paid for that.

Also plenty of substacks, patreon podcasts, etc.

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My local paper just ran a story about a woman "trapped" in her Tesla because the battery died. They started the story with a "warning" to anybody who might be considering buying one. The solution, according to this article, was to locate the "secret" release button that opens the door. Of course to anybody who has ever ridden in the front seat of a Tesla this is an absurd framing of the physical door handle which opens the door in the exact same fashion as every door that has been manufactured for a vehicle for the last 100 years. If you own a Tesla you have probably had to tell somebody not to use this handle (since it seems like such an obvious way to open the door) because it doesn't crack the windows and could damage the window seal (or so the warning that pops up when you use it says).

I'm not going to pay for that.

How could this possibly comply with European "right to be forgotten" legislation? In fact, how could any of these AI models comply with that? If a user requests to be forgotten, is the entire model retrained (I don't think so).

Have you ever seen the Northern Lights with your eyes? If so I'm curious where you saw them.

I echo what some other posters here have said: they're certainly not gray.

Was there a similar backlash to this identical ad from LG in 2009? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUAQ2i5Tfo

Yes! I love Aronofsky's work. The Fountain is a hauntingly beautiful film. The poster from this film hangs in my children's bedroom and I can't wait to watch it with them when they're ready for that type of story.

Synecdoche NY, specifically this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9PzSNy3xj0

But there is also a scene (which I cannot find online) where the main character (a playwright) is explaining that the only way to make his play work is to make everybody a main character. He realizes that everybody, everywhere, is living out a rich life and that they're the main character of that life.

It is a fantastic movie and i highly recommend it.

Sorry if that was confusing. I mean that for instance: tmobile will be adding this to their coverage map, but they're not getting rid of the towers, and the primary way your phone is communicating with the world is not going to be via starlink satellites.

I believe this is addressed in the video that I linked. There are very good compression algorithms to allow voice, and "browsing" means something akin to slow dialup.

This is not something that could, for instance, replace your cell phone carrier.

In the video at 21:00 Elon clarifies: 2-4 megabits per cell zone.

This is for very low bandwidth text communications when you're out in the country and can see the sky.

Stuff like this has existed from companies like garmin for some time. This is very cool, though.

Here is when this was announced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzli-Ww26Qs

Pretty cool! Also kindof funny to see the TMobile CEO trying to hype people up and Elon sortof reigning it in.

You're talking about the "coke freestyle" machines. Yes that story is true for those machines, but McDonalds doesn't use them.

(Burger king does)