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Nothing in there contradicts. A business that works well today may not work well tomorrow; it's management's job to change the business to better meet future conditions. > or do yo…

> The illegality usually comes from widescale fraud which includes accessing services you are banned from accessing. Agree, and this is exactly what Anthropic is alleging. > data y…

"I think we shouldn't have IP protection at all" is a totally valid position to hold, but that's not the law is. OP said it didn't violate the law, and it does.

This is illegal in China too, there's just an enforcement asymmetry. I understand what you're saying is de facto true, I'm just taking issue with people saying either 1) its not il…

It's a little different in this case, since 1) not all the data Ant used was stolen and 2) they did contribute significantly to the value of the stolen good. An analogy might be a …

Do you care about the law or not? I think theft is bad everywhere, not just when Anthropic does it.

To be clear, I think theft is also bad when Anthropic does it. US and CA law really don't care that Anthropic violated IP law elsewhere.

Uh, what? > Distillation is not illegal by every definition of the word Note that Anthropic (and USG) alleges [0] not only that Kimi was distilled, but that they actively circumven…

You're conflating two concepts: native bit width and post-training quantization. Consider two models: one is 16B and trained natively in 2 bits; one is 8B and trained natively in F…

1. yes. https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2607.bonsai-27b table 14 shows that bonsai retains roughly 95% of the fp16 27b model's average performance and outperforms post-training quanti…

Probably won't have to wait that long. Prism released Bonsai 27B ( https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit ) as a ternary model a few days ago, its just ~7GB an…

The sooner the USG figures out a standard process for approving releases the better. There are many differing opinions on how much to regulate AI, but I think we can all agree ad-h…

Tim was a great CEO. I'm just pointing out product velocity slowed. I'm far from the first person to say it, it's just a fact. In the five years before Cook we got first generation…

I'm quite curious what Tim Cook's legacy will end up being. There is no question many of Apple's business experienced significant, impressive growth during his tenure. Amazing capi…

The "rent" in "rent-seeking" does not refer to "rent" it refers to "economic rent." Totally different concept. But don't take my word for it: > "Rent-seeking" is an attempt to obta…

Methinks this post conflates “rent seeking” with “return on investment” just a tad. Economic rent is the extra money you can charge for owning a scarce resource. ML models are not …

I always understood this to be why Tesla started working on humanoid robots

> Model A consistently outperforms Model B under identical conditions, that tells you something meaningful about the model. Not really! Sorry to harp on this, but there are two way…

Just reading your description, it sounds like there are two variables: 1. Prompt adherence: how well the models follow your stated strategy 2. Decision quality: how well models do …

I suspect this sort of thing starts to happen when UX decision-making gets decentralized. No single god-king would allow six or more different new icons; the lack of uniformity is …

If your "impossible" designs are manufactured by non-exclusive suppliers it isn't much of a moat.

…so? A realistic stay-at-home subsidy would max out around $30k. Your proposal only meaningfully shifts incentives for the bottom income quintile. For everyone else: - Upper-income…

Do you have any evidence for that? From what I’ve seen, the research leans the other way. For example: Children from more advantaged families were actually more likely to view unfa…

The most obvious example is the children of addicts. It’s hard to imagine a kid is better off stuck at home with druggie parents than spending the day in daycare.

Hate to break it to you, but many kids actually do better away from their parents than with them. It's extremely sad, but a consistent finding in early childhood education is that …