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The whole thing was a scam

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Re: The whole thing was a scam

#51

25M isn’t even that much money. Not only are they whores, they’re cheap whores.

Quite tangential, but this reminded me of a line from Human Target:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tqvzt?start=872&mute=fal...

"I'm sorry, you... You think I'm a prostitute?"

looks at offered cash

"A $40 prostitute?"

Re: The whole thing was a scam

#52
post #41

> In capitalism, the market decides. > In oligarchy, connections and donations decide. > It sure look like the US is transitioning from the former to the latter. One has to wonder on what planet Gary Marcus has lived so far.

In his defence, previously money won, rather than bribing someone to get a competitor nuked from orbit.

Sure you could smear an opposition company, but just straight bribing the government is new, at this scale

Re: The whole thing was a scam

#54
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your argument here? He's not allowed to discuss crony capitalism because you imagine that he thinks LLMs suddenly became reliable.

It’s a comment about who Gary Marcus is presenting himself as My intention is for other people to think what I believe which is Gary Marcus is a hack and has no business being listened to with respect to technical evaluation of AI because he’s not technically competent enough to do. The existence of his polemics waste everybody’s time and generally waste resources like we’re wasting right now. His entire schtick has…

Then disassemble the argument the author is making and show people an alternative reality based take if you want to be taken seriously.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

#55
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, that’s not accurate at all, and in case you are genuinely confused: 1. Anthropic should be free to sell its services under whatever legal terms and conditions it wants. 2. The Pentagon should be free to buy those services, negotiate for different terms, refuse to buy those services, and terminate contracts subject to any termination clauses. You may or may not agree with what the Pentagon wants to do, but if thin…

1. Agree 2. Agree > The problem is that the Pentagon is trying to bury Anthropic as a company, calling it a danger to the United States because it exerted its non-controversial right in (1). My take is that the DoD very much wanted to continue using Claude. However, Amodei refused to budge on relinquishing final say over Claude usage. The DoD took this as a personal offense (how dare this guy, does he know who we are…

> However, Amodei refused to budge on relinquishing final say over Claude usage.

And that's 100% acceptable and legal. They have the right to do that. And DoW can then turn around and say "no deal". And that's 100% acceptable and legal.

So Hegseth going above and beyond and lashing out on the People's behalf like a butthurt child is unwarranted at best, and should definitely be illegal if it's not already.

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