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Or if model training is more of a rollercoaster, where spending gets you to the top of the hill where you create a massive internal model which can then build the next version of itself for cheaper and cheaper amounts relative to human R&D costs. If Anthropic is first over that hill, they can race far ahead.

If you go that route, then the US is ahead of China for manufacturing output per capita. Which probably isn't what you wanted to hear.

There's nothing like that in the US, not by any measure.

The whole reason you have entrepreneurs in the US is because people DON'T judge for you failing. You can always start again.

> I tend to notice the poorest, most desperate tend to be the proudest

I think this is where folks go astray. There are tons of well-off or even wealthy people who love America, give to their churches, cheer on their kids at sporting events, and have what appears to an outsider as an unbelievably high amount of nationalism. It's not really the poorest, most desperate slice of society by any measure. Have you lived outside of a major city in the US?

May I present to you the humble briefcase full of cash?

The US manufactures more goods annually than Germany, Japan, and S. Korea combined.

Best part is that he did this all with a controller + pretty slow sensitivity settings. Aka this probably took 2X as long as someone on a PC doing the same thing

> I still remember the day I found out game theory was a thing - it was like finding out that someone successfully systematized common sense.

Game Theory as a field is actually very complex and often reveals dominant strategies that would never occur to someone as the "common sense" approach to a problem. It was arguably created to solve for problems where there was no obvious correct answer, even for a very intelligent person.

I was talking about this with a friend this weekend. We both work in the field and test new models within minutes of them being released. We both immediately clocked Opus 5.5 as being cracked within the first hour. Went on HN and the launch announcement was full of people whining and pointing at cost/token charts vs Chinese models. It was like the upside-down world.

We were both sad that HN has become a negative signal news source on AI lately - you're much more likely to be misled by this website in 2026 on the topic of frontier AI. If you're reading this comment, you should do your own research vs trusting the "Astra is 1000% the best" or "Deepseek is the $/tk KING" comments swarming these announcement posts.

Yeah men with guns can always take it, but there's this thing called the stock market and bond market that would freak out if free enterprise was crushed by state coercion with armed men, with billions worth of IP forcibly exfiltrated by state actors. Trillions get wiped out overnight.

That massive economy is what pays the guys with guns. You can win that battle but you will absolutely kill the golden goose and lose the war.

> and can't seem to fathom that men with guns always override the opinions of nerds in SF.

Those nerds in SF are holding the proverbial gun up to the head of the economy right now. Maybe men with physical guns are bad at understand that type of thing.

The reason I did it the way I did was so that I can still use the codex and claude code subscriptions vs paying the API cost. Can you do that via OpenCode?

So far in the past 20 minutes it sounds much better in my sessions. Way better than 5.0 so far.

I've been getting a ton done with Fable as the supervisor and astra as the implementer, with opus for adversarial reviews of the astra PRs. You can use terminal multiplexers with custom harnesses to allow Fable to start codex sessions and send instructions / read instructions / allow/deny actions. It's pretty cool!

So China's brand new recon satellite that was placed specifically in orbit over Iran just happened to self-destruct weeks after China was accused of giving Iran high-res satellite imagery that was used to kill American soldiers?

And the US just publicly told everyone they have weapons in space?

Hell of a coincidence.