coolfox

they did make use of AI to improve the GNC for one of their attacks on the saudis but I guess technically that's the houthis (if that distinction matters). from my understanding the sophistication of the attacks isn't the issue, its the geography and magazine depth of the iranians.

is their goal to value tokens as some pseudo-currency and create some wacko new age economy like crypto tried and failed to do?

my gut reaction was to argue over semantics with you but no, you're right they are different. I don't think it's been the case in the overwhelming majority of my cases but you aren't wrong.

its objectively not engineering

I use the whole "first principles" thinking as a litmus test for bad engineers, if you're emphasizing first principles all the time you're probably a bit of a naivie person, to put it as nicely as possible. subtraction is a great skill to apply to a great many things we do and when people say "first principles" this is actually what they mean but sometimes things are complicated and a first order approximation is not enough.

too soon

I remember finding this game back in the summer before 8th grade. right after the z-axis was added. talk about a spirtual wakening. I remember printing off the wiki and reading it in my science class. This game is probably the main reason I became an engineer honestly.

cool a new model, how does it compare to others?

double standard outrage from many, honestly, they're watermarking it. they've already told industry they take steps to mitigate distillation. Where's all the outrage over similar blackbox activities like how Steam performs VAC bans or how Gmail finds and blocks Spam?

You don't create a security measure then tell everyone how to bypass it.

I think OP is pointing something interesting out but the undertones of caution and "what else are they hiding" seem melodramatic and I find that hard to take serious.

The internet gives people a platform and, in a lot of ways, this supplants the typical role of journalism. The issue with this is no one wants to act like a journalist and actually explain the truth around a set of facts. Instead, they'll portray their opinions as a narrative and every time that resonates with someone or gets signal boosted, that narrative grows more assertive in the typical discourse I see nowadays. I would find it far more interesting to see what explanation Anthropic gives for these features than to immediately cry foul.

I'm always so hesitant to do that, I really value getting news within the first 3 hours of it becoming available so doing weekly digests makes me feel like I'm losing something valuable, but I guess that could be solved with a personalized feed.. hmmm

honestly, doom scrolling + surrounding myself with people intensely interested in the topic. I basically just info overload myself on an hourly basis and since I find it interesting enough it tends to make its way into the sticky part of my memory.

to give you an idea of what I mean, I'm checking bluesky, reddot, HN, youtube, instagram, tiktok, discord basically every hour. every morning, lunch, and evening I'm checking my email where I receive about a dozen or so newsletters either weekly or daily. a few times a week (usually weekends) I'm browsing github and arxiv for the whatever random thought or interest is the flavor of the week (lately its been on EOE techniques and classifiers). This has lead me to collect the names of a good number of authors I trust and that appear to be thought leaders in the space.

I don't think this approach is good at all, in fact, it feels neurotic and I think its an unhealthy obsession borne from my adhd, but its kept me going for the last 3ish years and I don't feel the slightest bit burnt out. personally I find the whole field of AI/ML to be immensely exciting so I think that part of it is a huge driver for how I personally stay up-to-date.

ideally I would offload a lot of these activities to a research agent and tbh I "plan" to eventually, same way I plan to gut short form videos and social media from my life and get 8hrs of sleep. Eventually.

I was able to get 19 slices out of one log

funny how wired got the masses of the internet on board with hating AI, helping to spark the whole anti-movement and people still continue to rely on them for their understanding of AI and current events.

I feel like they report in a vaccum. take this anti exfil policy for claude, it was plainly explained as part of the launch of Anthropics new product. Security like this isn't novel, it isn't bad, you don't explain how your security works to the people you're securing against. Nobody freaks out about Steam's VAC ban system, no one is investigating gmail's spam filtering, Reddits vote fuzzing, cloudflares bot detection, or Vercel for blocking proxying services.

whats really the distinguishing principle? Is it really just not liking Anthropic's opinions? then just say that and use a different llm. chemist, biologists, and AI researchers cry a river lmao

computah, build 200 more data centers