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The level of conspiracy thinking he here is reaching COVID levels.

I don't see why AI company PR statements are relevant here

They suppress the news --> proof of malicious intent.

They disclose the news --> proof of malicious intent.

How would you want them to behave? Suppress the news?

That's a beautifully simple characterization. I've never heard of of that. What keywords do I need to find more on this topic?

“Safety” in the context of LLMs concerns not offending certain individuals.

It absolutely concerns not destroying the world.

Imagine a nuclear power company being extremely cautious with safety and everyone online is like "make more power already you pussies!"

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

I don't think so. Expect that in a market with high vendor lock-in but that's not the case here. The market is extremely competitive and switching cost are near zero. Anthropic can't afford to pull shit like this and sacrifice quality.

Is that news? Sounds like status quo.

Sorry, but how was that murder successful?

Successful in winning over the public.

Also a lot of questions had "right answer" / "opposite of right answer" pairs. Just by identifying those you get to 50% probability.

I don't read the parent comment to take issue with the use case per se but the billion scans per month figure.

Surely, whatever this is giving you, getting a scan once a month must be plenty. They need a billion people to get a scan every month.

I want to do offensive programming (I coined that term). You take risks, but you fix things quickly and ship.

Nice, I like the term too. But the paradigm is absolutely status quo in the industry. The thing is: with Gen AI the cost of "defensive programming" has gone way down, while the cost of (human) verification has gone way up. On the other hand, formal methods make verification cheap but come with massive implementation overhead (writing specs, types, proofs, and generally bending the implementation into a rigid framework). But Gen AI can automate all that laborious work. It's a match made in heaven.

You can't get rid of undefined. You can't ban null either. They're both used in the core language all over the place:

undefined camp:

- out of bounds array index access [1,2,3][42]

- non existent object key access {}.foo

- array.find(...) no result

- ...

null camp:

- document.querySelector(...) no result

- regex.match(...) no result

- ...

a big attack surface

Wdym? At least web apps are sandboxed by default in contrast to native.

I agree. I'm not a game dev. I had a game idea and vibe-coded it with Claude. I kinda got what I had in mind but the game is just not engaging. I don't even know what to prompt. I tried "how could the be made more engaging" but no good ideas are falling out. I just have a lack of intuition for this kind of development. And Claude doesn't help.

might as well be in Skyrim

Kinda crazy if you think about it. In my home town of Cologne, if you dig anywhere you either find roman ruins or WW2 bombs. ~30 bombs last year. I've been evacuated so many times.

Youtubers are using something as sources. Someone still has to do the journalism. Not sure YouTubers can replace that.

maybe mark it as spam? If you don't have an account anyway, you don't miss anything. Also maybe they get punished a bit by being ranked as spam

Despite having a NYT audio subscription, I continue to listen to the ads in a third party podcast app just so I don't have to use their god damn app.

I'm intensely skeptical about anything Anthropic says, because they are so incented to make their products seem dangerous

OpenAI, Google, etc. are not using "that strategy". I do believe that people at Anthropic genuinely care about AI safety. That's the main reason the company was founded. But I can imagine that idealism is eroding with new people and money flowing in.

Apparently since success=valuation and not profit.

You can absolutely access firefox passwords from any iOS app. You can even configure it as the default password app.

Serious questions: what's wrong with just using Firefox built in password manager?

On the other hand, buying twitter was the turning point for his public image. Before that, he was Tony Stark. Now he's Lex Luthor.

Extremely sober take. And rare. Couldn't agree more.

I think supernatural things don't exist by definition. If ghosts would exist, they would be just natural.

The real question is whether there is a two way link between consciousness and the physical world. Obviously the physical world is observed by consciousness, so that direction checks out. What about the other direction? Is the physical world at all influenced by consciousness? The mindfulness folks seem to argue: no. They argue that consciousness is like a person watching a movie, where the movie is experience. The person is so immersed that it thinks, it controls the movie, but in reality it's a fully passive observer. But this can't be true! Otherwise, the discussion of consciousness could never have come up in human history. A population of "philosophical zombies" could never initiate this discussion. So somehow consciousness must cause physical neurons to activate. The movie knows about the person watching!

Welcome to Hacker News. Blood in the streets doesn't spark curious conversation so let's talk about compilers!

Probably for the better. Otherwise it quickly becomes politics all day everyday. There are plenty of other places where you can get that already.

The parallels to the rise of Nazi Germany are striking. But it can be much worse. Read "February 1933" if you want to get a feel. Pretty much daily reports of people getting killed in clashes between Nazis and Communists. Hitler almost immediately suspends right to assemble, free speech etc, and orders police to kill dissidents on sight. Prominent artists and journalists are getting arrested or are fleeing the country. All of that within a month of Hitler taking power.

There is still hope for the US. The press is still critical, the opposition is not arrested, the courts are still giving push back, and it's not civil war level violence.

I'm afraid there is no real purpose. Choose whatever you want. It's all made up. But finding a way to feel good about it in the long run is still worth it. In that sense, I think the author is giving good advice.