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I think some AI safety advocates have been arguing for great controls around nucleotide synthesis (e.g., impose greater data collection requirements or advanced screening for harmf…

I agree with the substance of your comment that token economics pace the diffusion of AI into the labor market. But I think they have a much smaller influence over the pace of the …

Great comment. I haven't read Schelling but will check that out. I think you're right that international cooperation on the topic is likely impossible at present, for the reasons y…

We were incredibly lucky that computing and nuclear weapons led to a stable geopolitical equilibrium (mutually assured destruction). There were certainly a few scary points where w…

The HN discourse on this subject is incredibly discouraging to me. It's completely nonconstructive. I take the pace of AI development seriously. All of my friends who work at AI La…

We make binding rules all the time. We didn't fix the ozone layer by encouraging people to quit their jobs producing CFCs. We lobbied for international regulation to ban them.

What does cracking down on distillation look like in practice? I imagine data retention would be a part of the strategy, like we saw with Fable? It seems really hard to allow usage…

News just broke today that Google is planning on doing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986351

> the winner will be whoever burns their models to ASICs fastest As of today, that appears to be Google! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986351

If anyone can make this work, it's Google. They have all the right pieces: scale, chip design experience, and high-volume low-intelligence usage (their AI summaries for searches). …

With the administration's track record of reactive (if not capricious) actions, I doubt any leading AI Labs are going to flout this order, even if it is "voluntary". Nobody wants t…

> The honest answer to that question, in June 2026, is that we do not know > The honest reading of those numbers is not that defense is winning on economics > The honest 2026 answe…

Everyone loves to say this when the death of Stack Overflow is discussed, but it always was that way. Strict moderation, love it or hate it, was part of the platform. And it could …

It's a tall order to live up to the impact of Rerum novarum, the encyclical by the former Pope Leo that greatly guided thinking out of the industrial revolution. Personally, I'm ex…

Isn't a large user base and the data collected from those users a moat of sorts?

> If Anthropic actually cared about humans, they would have the best customer support (staffed by humans, for humans) I know Anthropic support is slow from firsthand experience, bu…

Snake and DOOM were two of our early tests (for filter functions and MCP) when we stood up Open WebUI for internal chat/agent use. Sometimes games are the best way to limit-test ne…

I ran an internal (oil and gas focused) benchmark yesterday and found Opus 4.7 was 50% cheaper than Opus 4.6, driven by significantly fewer output tokens for reasoning. It also sco…

On my private internal oil and gas benchmark, I found a counterintuitive result. Opus 4.7 scores 80%, outperforming Opus 4.6 (64%) and GPT-5.4 (76%). But it's the cheapest of the t…

A significant part of Anthropic's cachet as an employer is the ethical stance they profess to take. This is no doubt a tough spot to be in, but it's hard to see Dario making any ot…