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Even if one accepts this argument as valid, an outright ban on an entire technology is the most freedom restricting, invasive, economically disruptive remedy possible. There are mo…

> he narrowly avoided prison while at FTX Apparently, he worked in charitable giving at FTX and had nothing to do with the shady investments. He was never charged and there's no si…

Per a different WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/finance/leopold-aschenbrenner-situationa... > "Over the past week, traders at major hedge funds and other firms began sharing infor…

WSJ earlier reported that SA had a deal Wednesday night to sell their Anthropic stake to Citadel for $10B in cash but on Thursday morning backed out and decided to instead sell pub…

Per another WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/finance/leopold-aschenbrenner-situationa... "The fund had gained about 270% after fees this year through May. At that point, it was up …

> Hard to think of a modern institution as corrupt as fifa.

I went through the same on my 10-inch Android tablet. The key is just sticking with it long enough to get it set up for your needs and prefs. I'm glad I did because it's really gre…

Anthropic's ToS restricts the DoW from using their models for 1. Fully autonomous weapons systems, and 2. Mass domestic surveillance. There is no carve-out regarding who the autono…

> This has serious First Amendment ramifications. Also, the 5th and 9th amendments. For the government to sustain a blanket prohibition on any U.S. citizen even possessing what amo…

> you can very likely be faced with charges of obstruction of justice or even perjury. If they can't compel you to enter a password (courts have ruled passwords are 'speech' and th…

It's worth adding that distillation is not a violation of whatever valid copyright interests a model maker may have (if any). The US Copyright Office has already said AI model-gene…

IANAL but I think while lying to some questions might lead to obstruction charges, not answering is simply exercising the right to remain silent.

Looks a bit like Thunderbird 2. I approve.

Hyphen: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2010 But there's also hyphen-minus: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+002D , and a search for 'hyphen' returns a bunch of others: ht…

> an unaligned model Beyond certain obvious 'third-rails' even experts have reasonable disagreements on what 'aligned' means. > everyone integrates it into their business Few large…

I mean wisdom of crowds, super-forecasters, calibration and pre-registration are useful tools that can result in better predictions, turning it into online gambling is where it wen…

> That's why some computer mags started introducing tools to type in programs without ambiguities. Yes, typing long magazine listings was already laborious but then you had the ext…

The day they kill off old.reddit.com is the last time I'll visit Reddit (after >15 years, >7,000 comments & >70,000 karma). Old.reddit, the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), custom u…

For sure. I got to know John after meeting him in our respective roles as 'journalist writing about startup' and 'young startup entrepreneur'. As we got to know one another well en…

There have definitely been times when all I really wanted was just access to the same search term-based FAQ portal their frontline tech support had in front of them (because their …

Don't modern clipboard managers like Ditto already solve this issue because they have non-destructive clipboard history that's instantly viewable and searchable? They also open up …

I had many lovely dinners with John back in the 90s (he loved Chez Panisse). While his public persona could occasionally be curmudgeonly, in person he was a warm-hearted, passionat…

> cheap chinese batteries, EVs, and drones? The banning or effective banning through tariffs of products like EVs is a pretty dumb economic strategy that rarely works out in the lo…

How was K3 trained on data distilled from Fable when Fable was only publicly available in the last two weeks before K3 was released? The timing just doesn't work.

$1.5 billion fine for downloading 7 million books from LibGen and other pirate torrents. That's also the case where the judge ruled that training AI models on books could qualify a…