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Maybe it’s the dead internet.

All the bots and other LLMs providing feedback, so in reality it’s reflecting the reality in a sense.

That’s the key point, what’s happening here is theft.

I still prefer Kagi News over any mainstream media at this point.

https://news.kagi.com/

Fable’s ability to understand concepts and combine different aspects together is quite impressive.

Opus keeps wondering around unrelated topics, and you find yourself scattered and constantly telling Opus to focus on the problem.

As George Carlin once said, these people know what’s good for them, they all went to same schools, and hang out at same places, they don’t need to have a secret meeting to collide.

More and more I find myself trying to stop Opus from doing something stupid, and at every turn I need to tell it to stop overcomplicating things.

I think the models are being optimized for wealth extraction from users and companies, instead of solving problems.

I don't know why Opus would try to create an entire library when I told it specifically to do something simple that would take 2-3 lines of Python.

The difference is Anthropic is not a defence contractor.

I'm not saying Anthropic is a defense contractor, I'm just saying once something is export controlled, the whole dynamic changes and there's no difference between them and a defense contractor.

It looks great on the photos I took myself, but I wish there was a way to turn HDR off for certain apps or at least on demand. There are some YouTube videos online that I cannot even watch because they get too bright and saturated.

Possibly. But we also need to keep in mind that Google gave governments access to their internal data center traffic unencrypted for years.

the government overseas that has no direct effect on my life

Yet.

Things change as well, in all sides. The US might swing back to normal with the next election, or China worse, or vice-versa.

Or in the case of ASML machines, any company you can pressure to comply with your policies either by restricting their access to the technology you control or politics between governments.

I think it’s a general misconception with folks that export controls only apply to weapons, forgetting that it applies to many high-end manufacturing and technology.

I’m surprised about some of the reactions, but again anyone who has a security clearance wouldn’t touch any of this discussion with a ten-foot pole also.

I don’t know if this has something to do with the administration or access to export controlled technology. There could be a licensing process, but I don’t think it would be public information, we don’t know whom each defense contractor sells to as public.

Just replace the word Anthropic with defense contractor or weapons manufacturer, they’re all export controlled at this point, do you see a difference?

I really hope the controls are relaxed, but at some arbitrary levels it’s expected that all countries will apply export controls.

There are tens of thousands of defense contractors that not only work with export-controlled stuff, but even top-secret and other higher levels.

Getting just a secret clearance takes up to a year, and expecting to do this for all employees, in this AI market? Not going to happen, things move way too fast.

People complain about the US approach, but almost every high end manufacturing is being export controlled, from ASML machines to high end optic used in missiles.

I thought Xerox demoed something they haven’t implemented yet, and Apple turned a mockup into a real GUI.

The amount of tracking is already at insane levels, none of this is being done with good intentions.

We must get rid off cookie banners permanently and a browser level “do not track” must be enforced.

Nothing can be gained by meeting in the middle with these intrusive ad companies.

In my experience Claude tends to immensely over complicate things and go for a complex abstraction scheme even when all it needs to do is two lines of code. Combined with its eagerness to just code and more importantly pay more attention to the last prompt causes it to do an insanely complex solution first and then patch things with half assed attempts. The whole ordeal results in a code that on an initial glance looks okay, but quickly breaks down and becomes unmanageable. A significant effort is needed to push back Claude’s tendencies, so I mainly find myself pushing back or looking for ways to write an initial prompt with enough guidance, but only Fable was following them properly, Opus simply acts like a rhino in a china shop.

Digital Markets Act was supposed to define markets and allow competition, however it quickly turned into some existing monopolies putting their fingers into some American businesses and not addressing the main issues.

Whenever a successful European company like ASML is mentioned in the same context of monopolies due to their earned success in the semiconductor industry, then none of the market control (and I’m not just talking about digital markets here) goes out of the window.

Then I keep asking myself, are monopolies a bad thing that needs to be regulated because they can kill innovation and suck resources from nations, or does that only apply when it’s certain American companies only when they threatening the benefits of certain oligarchs.

I think that’s how it started but turned into we need to take a cut of your business.

Markets should be defined clearly and monopolies or institutions that suck wealth out of nations should be controlled, regardless of their origin, the US or not.

If you are a tech company that becomes as successful as to be a monopoly or a participant in an oligopoly with a strong network effect, why wouldn't you be recognized as a gatekeeper?

Exactly. There are numerous monopolies that are scumming resources and wealth out of masses and not being tackled either because they’re owned by the right people or they’re strategically important. Then the discussion about how monopolies are bad and that’s why we’re addressing them becomes a mute argument. It’s supposed to be a government of the people, but sometimes it’s using it as an excuse to serve the interests of the few in right places, and not the successful companies.

I was pointing out the arbitrary and political nature of the decisions being made.

A company being a monopoly is a problem, unless it’s a European one like ASML etc. Then it’s a technology they built over the years and they should reap the benefits of it.

Which one is it, are monopolies bad or the markets, digital or not, defined by how much European involvement and ownership it contains? Or is DMA a tool to catchup in certain markets by curbing the external parties?

Filenames in recycle bin getting mangled and users not knowing which file they can recover is a seriously stupid bug, maybe not an instability but it was working okay in the last 40 years without any issues.

It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company.

Are we soon going to say Spotify, ASML, and Carl Zeiss are also gatekeepers?

At some point I assume somebody had to explain why the start menu is 40-50 times slower than previous releases. Or they simply vibe-code something and ship it not caring what they created.

Yeah, I skipped microseconds entirely.

Another way to say tenth of a second is 100,000,000 nanoseconds.

We have 4GHz computers with 8-16 cores, and it takes 100,000,000 cycles to show the start menu?

Edit: Corrected the scale factor.

Microslop at its best.

I’m struggling to understand what their end goal is. How much can you half ass everything until your entire company becomes just a nuisance.

UK is going back in time where different classes of people had different rights. It sounds like they’re trying to silence the people and keep them “secure” from themselves, weird.

Reminds me the tv show “Hugo” that was taken off air because a kid said “f.ck this shit” while playing with a rotary phone, and still pisses a lot of people who couldn’t play the game afterwards.