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Comment · 2 days ago
tornado cash?

edit: I suppose it would be hard still. You can get anonymity inside wallets with Tornado Cash but then to turn that into actual money it will be very dependent on the country

Comment · 23 days ago
> For one, the engineer in India doesn't drive the demand for housing in Seattle thus keeping it more reasonably (less insanely) priced.

I urge you to understand that housing prices in Seattle are largely driven by supply inelasticity, more than anything.

If the premise was true, we'd have seen large drops in rent/home prices after mass layoffs (we didn't).

Also, it would be hard to explain the prices finally falling in Seattle for the last few months, which aligned perfectly with the largest supply since Feb 2014.

Comment · 24 days ago
gemini app kind of had that for a while I feel?
Comment · 1 month ago
Factor in their margin being chewed through with every open model release.

That spending obligation sounds extremely unlikely to be fulfilled without a bailout. Anthropic's IPO is them passing the hot potato forward.

Comment · 1 month ago
most sociable redditor lol
Comment · 1 month ago
being a bit more specific: the sample efficiency of humans is orders of magnitude larger for more abstract concepts. the same doesn't hold for memory-intensive tasks though (like any kind of trivia), but that only takes you so far.
Comment · 1 month ago
Short and to the point! Open and cheap models will undercut the big labs continuously. The blast radius won't be pretty once spending commitments knock the door.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm gonna repeat my comment from months ago, still true

> Jesus Dario we get it man, you want clout for the IPO.

Comment · 1 month ago
> It’s making me want to be a lot less collaborative with such individuals. I don’t want to sit around and refute Claude text outputs all day.

I echo the sentiment. It's frustrating to try to collaborate with a Claude/ChatGPT meat proxy.

You can write a very thoughtful two-line question over 5 minutes and get a 5 page design doc back in a minute.

Comment · 2 months ago
the race for the smartest/cheapest model is a race to the bottom. selling the tools is much more profitable.
Comment · 3 months ago
same. been running it in a dgx spark and it slaps
Comment · 3 months ago
Jesus Dario we get it man, you want clout for the IPO.

This constant whining from anthropic about distillation attacks continues to be rich given the amount of stolen data that went into any Claude variant.

Comment · 3 months ago
both companies have large spending commitments while their margins will be continuously wiped by open models / router-like solutions. both companies are rushing for ipo and doing an awful lot of financial engineering to look good (highly recommend ed zitrons analysis on anthropic profitability) before their margins are eroded that much.
Comment · 3 months ago
feels almost like anthropic is desperate for ipo huh

i think we'll see one of the fastest deflations in history post anthropic/oai ipo

Comment · 3 months ago
i mean you chose to be irritated by it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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