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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by mjg2 »

derangedHorse wrote: post #465
mjg2 wrote: post #386

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Tesla still hasn't achieved their 2016 self-drive goal by their self imposed deadline of 2017, even now a decade later. So, politely, is that accolade merited?

How does Elon's arbitrary deadlines impact whether the accolade is "merited"? Incredible progress was made in a fairly short amount of time. His accolade isn't based on his employer's ability to predict delivery dates, they're based on the quality of the systems that are actively deployed today.

I think an accolade's merit is based on the definition of done for work delivered. Elon certainly told the public a certain vision of self-driving (a definition of done) and it didn't come to fruition despite PR progress; i.e. a washing machine can do a lot of work, but is it the right work?

We can arbitrate about what "self-driving success" means until the cows come home, but my point is I've seen a lot of self-driving failures from the Teslas I've witnessed in person.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by mjg2 »

trollbridge wrote: post #434
mjg2 wrote: post #386

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Tesla still hasn't achieved their 2016 self-drive goal by their self imposed deadline of 2017, even now a decade later. So, politely, is that accolade merited?

The current vehicles sure seem to come close. I'm not entirely clear on how they've missed this goal, but the current models can do full self driving where I live, including parking.

Sure they have improved but how do we define success? Is success "It can drive a road it has never been on?" Even then I'm not sure because the model (not the physical car) has probably scanned that road before so it is recalling a prior route while being aware of hazards. Is that learning, or rote memorization?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by burnerRhodov3 »

mjg2 wrote: post #640
burnerRhodov3 wrote: post #624

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A Tesla drove coast to coast on full autopilot. My Tesla drives to walmart, finds a parking spot, comes to me outside walmart and drives me home. I've been driving my model 3 for years, and honestly, i've never had to "Take over" due to a saftey issue.

I could never trust a Tesla to drive safely around people. They seem like death traps. Could you share a link to the coast to coast drive please? How aided was it?

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2006436622909452501

How old are you if you don't mind me asking?

>I could never trust a Tesla to drive safely around people. They seem like death traps.

Have you ever been in a Tesla? It's literally been rated the safest car in America since it's inception.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by LZ_Khan »

raincole wrote: post #230
nightski wrote: post #228

Anyone else fearing Anthropic more and more each day? Not from a perspective that they are doing so well, but rather that it's like an industry tornado, sucking up and destroying everything in it's path.

Name three things they destroyed?

LLM's in general have destroyed at least 10 orders of magnitude more than 3 things.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by Onewildgamer »

m3kw9 wrote: post #402
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #366

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I wonder if he had to answer a few Leetcode / Codility problems first.

The warm up rounds to filter out the fluffy includes asking what is a Matrix, do this calculation, what is a LLM. 2nd round include stuff like explain the binary search algorithm, write a double linked list in C, and a take home project.

You forgot to add ghosting for a month and then asking for another round of interview.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by solenoid0937 »

siren2026 wrote: post #558
solenoid0937 wrote: post #488

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You didn't read your own sources. The red lines are still in place.

Oh I read them. If I had to bet I follow this more closely than you do. Some redlines are still in place. Not the same ones and it is very clear based on this precedent that red lines can be moved at any times whenever it is convenient for Anthropic as shown by the above articles. So as I said, all a marketing gimmick.

Please quote exactly where the two red lines (autonomous robotic killbots on current-day models, domestic mass surveillance) have been lifted.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by mjg2 »

burnerRhodov3 wrote: post #643
mjg2 wrote: post #640

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I could never trust a Tesla to drive safely around people. They seem like death traps. Could you share a link to the coast to coast drive please? How aided was it?

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2006436622909452501 How old are you if you don't mind me asking? >I could never trust a Tesla to drive safely around people. They seem like death traps. Have you ever been in a Tesla? It's literally been rated the safest car in America since it's inception.

That's just a man standing by his car. I'm asking for video proof, I'm sorry that wasn't clear off the bat. I also abstain from X due to Elon's track record, so I'm not going to keep searching there for it. Could you please tell me how to self serve on this?

I've driven a Tesla on and off for about 4 years, and I'm thankful to never do so again.

> death trap

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-crash-doors-musk-regulators...

> It's literally been rated the safest car in America since it's inception.

I'm locating our disconnect a bit better: something can be marked "safest car" for road tests but still be rife with issues, like its obnoxious UI choices, etc.

https://www.tesladeaths.com

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by scottyah »

actualwitch wrote: post #200
scottyah wrote: post #120

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Anthropic has drawn lines with the most powerful organization in the world, that OpenAI capitulated on within hours for a small contract.

...and then silently got back to talks with DoD [0] and gave them the Mythos model. Separately, they went back on their promise to only develop models that they can guarantee are safe [1]. I reckon considering which country they are HQ'ed in, building skynet is in their destiny. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/pentagon-anthropic-blacklist... [1] https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/anthropic-...

Lines drawn does not mean "refuse all communications". They were very clear that they wanted to continue the partnership, but adhering to the terms of the contract. I personally think that is the best stance- support the good work and avoid what they deem as bad.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by lacker »

delis-thumbs-7e wrote: post #610
lacker wrote: post #495

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I didn't dig into what the actual repository was doing, but personally, I took some inspiration from the idea after reading about it and realizing that I might have been underestimating the ability of LLMs. I put a bit more work into a performance harness I was using locally and just set some agents to brainstorming and they did seem to find some great stuff. So I don't really have a stance one way or another on this…

Could you elaborate in specifics how you had been underestimating models? Ypu mean just using more tighter harnessing to make them work in structured agentic eay or something else?

The specific code I was working on, I had a general idea of the sort of performance improvement that would be possible. I just thought that it would be too hard for the models to figure out without a lot of hand-holding.

But it ended up being not "too hard ever", but more like, in 1 out of every 5 tries, the model did in fact manage to get a large refactoring to the point where it improved performance. So once I set it up to try something, use the perf test, see if it worked, if not, throw it away, repeat. Then it started, slowly, finding some useful things.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by [deleted] »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #485
ricardobeat wrote: post #464

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Not back in 2016.

You don't think that tracking objects from frame to frame is obvious ?! I can guarantee you this was built-in from day #1 I'm guessing you're not a developer if you don't then automatically think of end cases like "what if car # 1 isn't in the preceding frame" ... (then you look at some relevant test data and see it was there, unlabelled ...)

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