tptacek

Gross.

I could give a fuck about Israel. I'm a practitioner in this field, and the notion that Israel somehow leads it or is distinctively engaged in it is misleading and dangerous.

No? Theranos generated under $1MM in total revenue. Juul is obviously a highly successful consumer product.

Anthropic, founded just 5 years ago, has revenue comparable to all of Nike.

That is a different argument and not one I'm engaging with. The claim was made that Anthropic has no product, which is just obviously false.

Among them, clearly.

Right, OK, but then that's the interesting or newsworthy claim, not the company's ratings status --- junk status for companies that later went on to become among the most successful in the entire marketplace is not unprecedented.

Anthropic has one of the most successful consumer products of all time.

How unusual is this? Amazon spent over a decade with junk ratings.

I haven't forgotten what you said, I simply don't consent to it. I go out of my way not to converse with you, but when you opt to post public comments in my field of practice that I disagree with, I will occasionally find those comments significant enough to reply to. I'm sorry you feel this strongly about this situation and bear you no particular ill will, but I'm afraid you're not reliably going to get the outcome you're demanding here, though I will continue trying my best.

People have been breaking in to hosting companies to steal bulk secrets since long before there were inference tokens to steal; the modal attack probably targets database DSNs.

This is always the most boring part of any health thread. Both sides of this have airtight arguments. The diet/exercise people will talk about thermodynamics, and the "it's more complicated" people will talk about epidemiology and the fact that "diet/exercise" hasn't worked as a population-level intervention at any point in modern memory. It's a classic axioms vs. empirics battle and it will never go anywhere useful.

Nobody's twirling their mustaches hoping people get sick, but they don't need to be for fee-for-service incentives to bias standard practice towards responses to conditions rather than prevention. On the other hand: you can go too far the other direction (and some cardiologists would point to CAC tests as an example). Preventative care can be bad if the tests drive unnecessary procedures.

Right, it's an alternative to a colonoscopy. As standard-of-care it's relatively new in the US.

The idea that attackers were waiting for Anthropic to tip them off on this is kind of risible. It's been a huge topic amongst practitioners for the better part of a year, and practitioners are usually a step or two behind dedicated criminal or state-sponsored attackers.