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NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by jubilanti »

anonym29 wrote: post #119
jeremyjh wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The USG has a $7 Trillion annual budget, and eminent domain. What do you have?

The FedGov has not constructed a single one of the buildings it uses. It pays contractors to build them using stolen money. Also, the $7T is clear evidence of incompetence. The FedGov collected $5.3T in theft revenue last year. This is why it's nearly $40T in debt. Incompetent bureaucracy sitting atop a monopoly on violence that would make Pol Pot blush that so routinely spends so much more money than it steals that…

By that logic, Google, Amazon, WalMart, and every other government on the planet have not constructed a single one of the buildings it uses either. Nor has any organization except a self sufficient prepper or hippie commune. And even then I bet they all had to hire some contractors.

Also by that logic all taxation is theft, which sure buddy, go live out your libertarian fantasies in Somalia.

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Post by NickC25 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #158
maebert wrote: post #59

The whole artificial scarcity Anthropic created around Mythos / Glasswing is quite brilliant to be honest (I’m Not saying ethical, just brilliant). The commercial gains are one side of course. But consider this: Gets labelled supply chain risk by the pentagon. Hypes up what they claim to be the most advanced hacking tool on the planet. This puts the US government into a loose / loose position. Either deny the NSA acc…

I'd be okay with our military / NSA having the best model possible. Now if only the NSA would vet key people in our government, there should be no reason a foreign entity can just hack the FBI director's personal GMAIL, the NSA should be trying to break into their accounts before our enemies do. It's ridiculous that they're not already doing this.

>Now if only the NSA would vet key people in our government

They probably did that for a while.

Sadly, they as an agency were un-vettable to the general public, and abused that position to create tons of blatantly unconstitutional programs that they tried to hide.

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Post by Zambyte »

irishcoffee wrote: post #134
theowaway213456 wrote: post #122

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If we're allowed to make modifications here then it should really be lose => looze and loose => luce

I think that would make "loosely" not work out. Lucely/lucly catch the hard C there. I'm good with loozing/loozer, looks kind of funny though.

I would not pronounce lucely with a hard C

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Post by sd9 »

dtj1123 wrote: post #125
Aerroon wrote: post #110

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Because your pronounce them backwards. "Loose" is a short word that ends sharply, but "lose" is a long word that slowly peters out. They should be the other way around imo.

This was also the way I felt before I was introduced to "the magic e" (spoiler: it still doesn't make any sense) https://www.academysimple.com/magic-e-words/

Wow, "magic e" just transported me back to primary school. And I had a little heart flutter fearing that I wouldn't be able to remember/explain it today.

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Post by Der_Einzige »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #109
tonmoy wrote: post #70

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I thought you were quoting a propaganda ad from starship troopers for a second there

Th amount of conservatives/republicans that love Starship Troopers (the film) because they take it at face value is pretty scary. The ones that call it poor satire are especially…interesting. They continue to prove Verhoeven’s point many times over even decades later.

How many times do we have to tell you this old man?

The book and author of the book was serious/not satire and meant everything earnestly at least the time of writing.

It’s objectively not meant to be looked at as satire. Most of the “citizenship requires service” stuff would be amazing from the perspective of smashing this countries geriocracy.

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Post by Zambyte »

clark_dent wrote: post #103
garbawarb wrote: post #96

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Side note, how did the word "lose" become "loose"? I've seen this so many times on HN.

It didn't, but the advent of spellcheck and autocorrect has made everyone completely give up on proper grammar or word selection as long as no squiggly line appears.

That defiantly has something to do with it

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Post by butlike »

irishcoffee wrote: post #134
theowaway213456 wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we're allowed to make modifications here then it should really be lose => looze and loose => luce

I think that would make "loosely" not work out. Lucely/lucly catch the hard C there. I'm good with loozing/loozer, looks kind of funny though.

Lucezly

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Post by [deleted] »

walrus01 wrote: post #79
Rebuff5007 wrote: post #49

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Snowdens document leaks happened in 2013 (implying the surveillance state was set up well before then). So this is more a leisurely stroll than a sprint.

Anyone who had read Bamford's books on the NSA many years prior to 2013 took a look at what info came out and had an internal thought process like "this is nothing new at all".

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Post by goolz »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #56
goolz wrote: post #22

The pace at which we sprint toward a full blown surveillance state, with unaccountable oracles sentencing us for pre-crime, is alarming to say the least.

Roko’s Basilisk has now tagged you for eternal suffering.

Thank you for reminding me of yet another existential dread.

Re: NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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Post by latexr »

xiphias2 wrote: post #169
latexr wrote: post #118

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> The whole artificial scarcity Anthropic created around Mythos / Glasswing is quite brilliant to be honest Isn’t that just the same strategy OpenAI has used over and over? Sam Altman is always “OMG, the new version of ChatGPT is so scary and dangerous”, but then releases it anyway (tells you a lot about his values—or lack thereof) and it’s more of the same. Pretty sure Aesop had a fable about that. “The CEO who crie…

It was from GPT-2 and Dario was part of the developers of that model while he was working in OpenAI, not Sam Altman, it's his playbook

> It was from GPT-2

Prior to the released of GPT-5, Sam said he was scared of it and compared it to the Manhattan Project.

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