erwald
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Comment · 8 days ago
The internal service is Microsoft Copilot, so this is probably just a really really dumb decision.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's defined in the linked article?
Comment · 1 month ago
Why do you think I used AI to write this? (I didn't.)
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, for that newsletter, where I write in my day job as a policy researcher, we use em dashes. For my personal writing (example: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/erich_grunewald), I use double dashes.
Comment · 1 month ago
Haha, I do actually use double dash, as I write in org-mode. I then convert that org-mode text to Markdown and copy and paste the Markdown into the Substack editor, which preserves the double dash. In case it needs to be said, the article is 100% human-written.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
To get the sure-to-be-correct answer to the question they were tasked with answering?
Comment · 3 months ago
> Furthermore, export controls, for which Dario Amodei openly advocates, are already prompting China to build its own chips. China is, of course, behind the West, but not as much as you may think. Instead of adopting a Western technology stack and relying on our technology to build its AI models, China will increasingly rely on its own chips, reducing Western leverage.
China has been working hard to indigenize AI chip making since well before the October 2022 export controls. I don't think the controls had zero effect, but overall I think the effect is often very overstated, and anyway it's irreversible (there's no way China will stop its self-sufficiency efforts even if the AI chip ban is lifted; the CCP will always ensure there's a large enough domestic market carved out for every Huawei Ascend produced).
Cf. https://newsletter.decisiontreeresearch.com/p/how-much-did-u...
Comment · 3 months ago
> Anthropic already possesses the compliance, legal, and evaluation infrastructure needed to satisfy such a regime. A university lab, startup, or community does not, even if they somehow manage to train a sufficiently capable model.
All the actual proposals that Dario Amodei has endorsed with regard to safety testing and so on have exempted smaller models. I don't think university labs or startups would ever be hit by any such regulation.
Comment · 3 months ago
Bans on Chinese open weight models being used in the US and bans on AI chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment being exported to China are two extremely different things, and it's not inconsistent in any way to oppose one and endorse another.
Comment · 3 months ago
Lots of people paying for a product they use is more or less the opposite of an MLM
Comment · 3 months ago
Right, and the comment I replied to was about revenue, not profit. (That said, while I don't think Anthropic is already profitable, it reportedly expects its first operating profit later this year.)