I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

Post by paulryanrogers » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC

curt15 wrote: post #143

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Great take. If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that the US can’t really be seen as the “good guys” in such a simple way. Many of these things have been happening for years, but war crimes, disregard for international law, blackmailing allies, killing their own citizens without accountability, and allowing foreign governments to heavily influence policy are all troubling signs. It’s easy to point to China a…

>It’s easy to point to China as a place where freedom of speech isn’t present, but try asking members of the current administration or even Supreme Court judges who won the 2020 election and see what kind of responses you get. Freedom of speech and regard for the facts are independent concerns. People absolutely have the right to call out lies about the 2020 election and have repeatedly done so.

Post by iso-logi » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 12:02 AM UTC

mips_avatar wrote: post #33

alecco wrote: post #18

But the "Anthropic fight" is mostly fake. Palantir was using Claude as base model. Anthropic allegedly took issue with unsupervised kills because the technology wasn't ready (or something along the lines). Also, I remember reading this guy has close ties to Anthropic. Also, I find it suspicious how he came to prominence out of nowhere. Like Big Tech and the establishment are propping podcasts of controlled narrative/…

He's roommates with an Anthropic researcher, I was roommates with a Google product manager I don't think I'm really bought out by Google.

Post by keybored » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 12:08 AM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #155

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Even if more illegal wars are started in the Middle East, even if inequality gets more obscene, VCs on HN are still going to insist that We The Good Guys are the champions of freedom, equality, justice, all the good stuff that we don’t practice (but we have great ideas about).

> VCs on HN are still going to insist that We The Good Guys are the champions of freedom, equality, justice, all the good stuff that we don’t practice (but we have great ideas about) They might. I’m not. There is an analogy here to perfect being the enemy of good. Or, at the very least, the pragmatic better.

Post by lioeters » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 12:36 AM UTC

alecco wrote: post #162

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>I find it suspicious how he came to prominence out of nowhere He was first funded by FTX

Holy rabbit hole. SBF was in Patel's previous podcast in July 2022 and FTX unraveled in November 2022. Hmm. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sbf > I flew to the Bahamas to interview Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX! He talks about FTX’s plan to infiltrate traditional finance, giving $100m this year to AI + pandemic risk, scaling slowly + hiring A-players, and much more. And that was right in the middle of FTX being accuse…

Post by dyauspitr » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 12:45 AM UTC

armchairhacker wrote: post #31

dyauspitr wrote: post #26

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I mean almost certainly but what do the sentences you’ve highlighted have to do with that.

They're AI tells. No human would write about how "corporate friction" "introduces friction at the infrastructure layer", except maybe someone who's trying to use big words to sound smart, because it barely makes sense (what "friction"? "Infrastructure layer", what are the other layers?)