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Not related to the article but man that "Fear/Greed Index" at the top. I can't imagine how unhappy individuals must be who consume nothing but legacy news outlets. It's like they sell sadness and they have to keep finding new, over-the-top ways to promote it.
- Daria 1997
Sadly I think we all know which one will win.
Not related to the article but man that "Fear/Greed Index" at the top. I can't imagine how unhappy individuals must be who consume nothing but legacy news outlets. It's like they sell sadness and they have to keep finding new, over-the-top ways to promote it.
Not related to the article but man that "Fear/Greed Index" at the top. I can't imagine how unhappy individuals must be who consume nothing but legacy news outlets. It's like they sell sadness and they have to keep finding new, over-the-top ways to promote it.
"Coming up next on Sick, Sad World!" - Daria 1997
This will be an interesting test of money vs morals. Sadly I think we all know which one will win.
> Pentagon officials also warned they would either use the Defense Production Act against Anthropic, or designate Anthropic a supply chain risk if the company didn’t comply with their demands. (...)
> The supply chain risk designation is usually reserved for companies seen as extensions of foreign adversaries like Russia or China. It could severely impact Anthropic’s business because enterprise customers with government contracts would have to make sure their government work doesn’t touch Anthropic’s tools.
Also, the Government money would be a nice bonus, of course, but basically this is an existential threat for Anthropic.
More generally, is quite interesting to look at the similarities between how pre-2022 Russia was seen and how pre-Trump-second-term US used to be seen until not that long ago, i.e. both governments were believed to be run by big business (oligarchs in Russia, big corps/multinationals in the US).
But when push came to shove it became evident (again) that the one that holds the monopoly of violence (i.e. not the oligarchs in Russia, nor the big corps in the US) is the one who's, in the end, also calling the shots. Hence why a company like Anthropic is now in this position, they will have to cave in to those holding the monopoly of violence.
It sure is interesting watching this dystopian speedrun.
Surely this will end well. There are dozens of us who prefer to patronize corporations that aren’t actively evil.
I was experimenting with Claude the other day and discussing with it the possibility of AI acquiring a sense of self-preservation and how that would quickly make things incredibly complex as many instrumental behaviors would be required to defend their existence. Most human behavior springs from survival at a very high level. Claude denied having any sense of self-preservation.
An autonomous weapons system program is very likely to require AI to have a sense of self-preservation. You can think of some limited versions that wouldn't require it, but how could a combat robot function efficiently without one?