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A complete mischaracterization. George Floyd ingested quite a lot of fentanyl, enough to die though it was inconclusive - it's a biological and medical reality that characterized t…

Whistle-blowing is not illegal (in the US) that's what the laws are there for, though obviously it's dicey and depends on media portrayal, and those laws could stand to be reinforc…

One cannot just release whatever one wants, and some of the docs should not have been released. There were huge variations in the nature of the content that he released, and this i…

+ Once again: 1000 K people coming up with some arbitrary bit of content is already understood in basically every legal regime in the world as 'public domain'. "Can you explain how…

- I don't think it's even reasonable to suggest that 1000 people all coming up with variations of some arbitrary bit of code either deserve credit - or certainly 'financial remuner…

Yes agree with the sentiment - G has the reach for sure.

RAG and LLMs are not the same thing, but 'Agents' incorporate both. Maybe we could resolve the bit of a conundrum by the op in requiring 'agents' to give credit for things if they …

"it would struggle to honor its long-term agreements. That failure would cascade. Oracle, for example, could be left with massive liabilities and no matching revenue stream," No, t…

We need strong regulation.

" Switching between models can be done by a single person in an afternoon (often just 5 minutes). That's what we're talking about." Good gosh, no, for comprehensive systems it's co…

There are quite large 'switching costs' from moving a solution that's dependent on on model and ecosystem, to another. Models have to significantly outperform on some metric in ord…

Gemeni does not have 'the lead' in anything but a benchmark. The most applicable benchmarks right now are in software, and devs will not switch from Claude Code or Codex to Antigra…

"don't have anything else of any value. " ? OpenAI is still de facto the market leader in terms of selling tokens. "zero moat" - it's a big enough moat that only maybe four compani…

Don't really think the thesis is fair. SDD as it's presented is a bit heavy weight, if you experimented with a bit, there is a lighter version that can work. For some mini modules,…

You started by saying 'There's no way to judge!' - but then bring out 'Benchmarks!' ... and hypocritically infer that I have 'dual standards'? The snark and ad hominem really under…

Kimi is plausibly near the frontier but definitely not up to GPT5 spec, the rest are definitely not 'frontier models'. There are objective ways of 'judging' them.

Why 'host' just to tap a few prompts in and see what happens? Worst case, you loose an account. Usually the answer has to do with people being less sophisticated than otherwise.

Nobody has access to 'frontier quality models' except Open AI, Anthropic, Google, maybe Grok, maybe Meta etc. aka nobody in China quite yet. And - there are 'layers' of Engineering…

The author is mixing a lot of issues here. Especially the GPL vs Permissive License conflation with the Corporate Hosting problem. Also, the sociological phenom of tech people fall…

$TRUMP is managed by World Liberty. The money is coming into $TRUMP and WLF at the same time as Trump is announcing deals with those parties.

Trump's personal, newfound multi-billion dollar crypto fortune is hosted by Zhao. I don't mean to be breaking any etiquette her by re-indicating this, but it's I think it's unreaso…

To the contrary, this is possibly an extremely dangerous and corrupt action (I'm saying 'possible' here). Zhao manages Binance upon which Trump's nefarious crypto operation - World…

The US President and his family's newfound crypto fortune, worth billions, managed by himself, his sons and 'Steve Witkoff' (his business partner who is 'negotiating' deals in the …