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Comment · 7 days ago
Well that’s exactly the authors’ claim. Legalese and patents intent is not to facilitate communication but to maintain a claim under the most bad faith, hostile reading.

AI language, it seems, is optimized to support reasoning from the interior monologue.

Comment · 8 days ago
A mature religious belief knows that the god that created the doctor also created the cancer.

As humans were more likely to celebrate the God who provides the cure more so than the God who creates the disease.

Comment · 17 days ago
Is there adverse selection in reports of the callousness, incompetence and greed of US healthcare providers?

Three years ago, of necessity I became a big-time consumer of healthcare[1] and I can't believe I just been lucky that nearly all my doctors seemed reasonable and effectively treated me. Of the dozen or so doctors I dealt with only one left me with a bad feeling.

[1] Stage 4 renal cancer, successfully treated with immunotherapy and surgery at Perlmutter Cancer Center in NYC.

Comment · 22 days ago
The way the US would leave a crater where the ICC was would not be militarily.

Go ahead, indict Trump. Trump, being the provocateur that he is, would travel to the Hague, or wherever else, and he would not be arrested. The ICC would do nothing and exposes its toothlessness as a performative political tool of center left Europe.

Comment · 22 days ago
But it's largely the court of center-left European thinking. It's a political tool without teeth, and since none of US, China, Russia are signatories, it can only prosecute people without a great power sponsor.
Comment · 23 days ago
That’s what makes this so annoying. I don’t mind a template, but the fake personalization gives it a whiff of deception in a way a pre-LLM simple template mass mailing doesn’t.
Comment · 28 days ago
Your book doesn’t seem very amusing.
Comment · 1 month ago
But the analogy still holds.

The original authors of all the text, creators of the media and developers of the software did far more work than Anthropic.

Comment · 1 month ago
Did you ever pace yourself or know anyone who had?
Comment · 1 month ago
They could get warmed up for it by first impeaching Pete Hegseth and RFK.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don’t struggle. I find Dario and Sam disingenuous.

“Frontier models are so dangerous we need to slow down.”

Ok. Slow down. You’re the CEO, just do it. Oh, wait what you really want is a gov’t mandated oligopoly. Because there’s no moat you can find.

If you’re truly afraid, and want regulation, support nationalization. It’s the only way we can be safe.

Comment · 1 month ago
My wife was from Reno, I was from NY. The week before we got married (in 1996) we were out there and her sister lent us a 1979 F150 at about 2O0k miles —- 3-on-the-tree, no air, AM radio, lap belts. The passenger door would fly open on left turns unless it was locked. I nearly lost my brother when I picked him up at the airport and forgot to warn him.

Maybe cause I was about to get married but I loved that truck.

Comment · 1 month ago
Can we stop pretending that this is not intentional behavior by OpenAI?

We don’t need new regulation, we need to enforce existing law.

Comment · 1 month ago
I don’t know. This reads more like a “Clojure is great” post, and Clojure is great. But the author takes a swing and a miss on the Rich Hickey magic. The UNIX example is contrived (the number of occurrences in the order they occur?), and trying to redefine simple in a way that excludes UNIX pipelines doesn’t work.
Comment · 1 month ago
This was a district court.

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