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That's a testament to the strength of their so called "commercial quality" security tooling.

No, it's like 5,000 people bought something that Costco called the iPhone but really was EvilPhone Max+ by EvilCorp. Costco should be on the hook for accepting the phones without properly checking they weren't bombs in disguise.

Apple would be 100% right to say "they're not our phone, we didn't make them, the branding was a lie."

Of course if Cursor actually has a direct connection with Anthropic, and Anthropic lost control of their keys... it's a different story and their employee is just obfuscating up there.

To put it in context, the poor elsewhere were poor by class. No attempt to become rich was permissible by law so it was key that this supermajority of the population did not believe they were downtrodden, and unfairly opposed.

Claiming the poor have more virtue, but only in their class status, is one way to do it.

Consider how many caste systems claim the farmer is the highest status, the wisest, the most virtuously hard working … but well still needs a good noble king to lead them.

I was not aware that Hollywood, video games, nor the Western media system as a whole had collapsed.

The only thing true about your statement is that the mere existence of California has been used to justify right wing candidates entire platform.

No, it's the old school cathedral "throw code over the wall" style commits that some companies were famous for.

It makes sense. Just because one can do a thing doesn’t mean they must want to do it.

It’s like everyone who squash merges for a clean timeline. You want you dev process to look prestine and communicate what changes were kept, not every experiment that failed.

They do have those, but the leg mechanisms don't have the same dynamic range as a humans' so they end up getting stuck in doorways, narrow stairwells, or other places which assume bi-pedals. Making them narrow enough to fit, makes them too short to reach the same heights assumed for adult humans, so they can't do the same thing.

The height vs width form factor kills the whole idea as a general solution.

Instead of repeating that they are legitimate, you would've gotten further by saying Human Rights Watch has been around for X years, has reported competently on Y matters even when suppression was attempted by Z country. Their membership is made of A, B, C and this is why you should trust in their data collection as a source that we can use in casual discussion.

Right now, you're basically asking people to trust Human Rights Watch because you trust them. But if people don't trust you, why would they trust your word on what sources are legitimized?

The first words of this article are “ In 15 simulated days”.

It’s a simulation.

How is the economic system broken?

Vietnam?

The USA lost it because of political reasons, not because it couldn’t continue to fighting.

Deciding rightfully that a war of conquest over a minor territory isn’t with the people’s anger at home is a political decision.

It doesn’t mean the technology used failed to achieve its ends.

The only reason we say the war was lost was because self chosen objectives weren’t competed.

By that measure, if the US goal in WW2 were to fully conquer Germany, it would have “lost” that war too since half of Germany ended up controlled by the Soviets.

Moats were there to protect your castle which had your military and the supplies to keep them fed.

If you go to guerrilla warfare immediately, you’re basically now forced to face the enemy on the field on even ground even when you are on the defense.

All they have to do is burn your lands, destroy your fields, kill your civilians and you have lost.

They’ll do all that and safely retreat back home leaving you defanged.

That’s what medieval warfare was all about. Not absolute surrender and conquest, just temporary suppression and maybe forcing your enemy to pay your tribute.

Sounds like it would be susceptible to how they’d reverse engineer LLMs using distillation.

I think you are torturing the analogy.

A moat isn’t a perfect defense. It’s a delay tactic that keeps the enemy from coming right up to your wall and climbing it or breaking it down. While you defend your moat, you whittle down the attackers so even when they do cross it they can be more easily defeated.

Moats and high walls became obsolete when canon fire became common.

Claude isn’t just a faster way to cross the moat, it’s gunpowder, and with it the rules have fundamentally changed.

Firmware security is useless if your product can be bought tested and reverse engineered through multiple trials. So long as you have something that can be understood and used by humans, you have something that can be reverse engineered.

Having the code accessible makes it easier, but just having both input and output is sufficient.