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Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Ignoring the whataboutism here, what about it was distasteful? Please see HN rule #1, this is not the community for that kind of discourse.

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And they were banned. What’s the real problem here. Spell it out for us.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

#52

Anthropic: "Our new models are so mighty and dangerous, we'll limit access." US admin: "Thanks for the warning, we'll do the same then" This was an epic (and deserved) own-goal. ( btw heres what most likely happened, they refused to fix a jailbreak: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171 )

What a dumb take, life isn’t a meme

This is retaliation by the us gov for not unlocking Claude to use on their weapon. Not good for anybody

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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> Amodei has always been and always will be a creep Like at what point do the weird and random Amodei smears start to seem like an orchestrated attempt?

They’re not weird or random when you’ve lived around many people like him before. Apparently not enough of us have unfortunately, so you keep elevating them when you should know better. So here I am trying to give you a heads up.

This could mean literally anything.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Also, supposedly biggest MMA event Rogan doesn't want to be on. Something is up

Rogan is a tool.

Interesting statement with various meanings :)

I just can't get his popularity, he isn't smart, he isn't a great speaker, his opinions on actually important stuff is often... just sad to hear, hyping up a 'bro effect and thats about it. Its like listening to that old buddy from primary school who struggled to get through high school, and now as an adult gathered some interesting opinions about the world, politics and humans that you really are not interested in.

Tons of better folks online, if somebody really has nothing better going in their short lives to listen to blahs for 3 hours, repeatedly. I guess there are worse ways to spend time though

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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They’re not weird or random when you’ve lived around many people like him before. Apparently not enough of us have unfortunately, so you keep elevating them when you should know better. So here I am trying to give you a heads up.

Unfortunately it's not widely distributed information, if you care so much about shedding a light on Amodei's shadiness it would help a lot folks like me to understand what you are talking about. I know of Sam Altman's shenanigans from way before OpenAI (I used to be on reddit a lot more when `sama` appeared over there) but I have no idea about Amodei. Help us out because otherwise it really does read as yet another…

Despite already being familiar with such a person (in the form of Altman), for some reason you are trying to find minor reasons that they are different people, and it’s distracting you from the major reasons that they are actually the same people.

I can’t offer any more than that, because it’s all I have. It’s about observation not conspiracy.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

#57
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Anecdotally, I think this is a much bigger cleanup than just talking to the administration. I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic. The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown. Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time.…

I see it exactly the same, self hosted LLM will be the future. They may not be SOTA, but it is better to have a Trabant in your garage than being denied use of shared Ferrari, because somebody outside of your control had hissy fit.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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post #53

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They’re not weird or random when you’ve lived around many people like him before. Apparently not enough of us have unfortunately, so you keep elevating them when you should know better. So here I am trying to give you a heads up.

This could mean literally anything.

No it means one thing - they are friend-less sociopaths.

It could imply many things, in terms of how that actually manifests in their behaviour. But I don’t care about that at all.

I only wish us plebs would stop inflicting them on ourselves.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Rogan is a tool.

Interesting statement with various meanings :) I just can't get his popularity, he isn't smart, he isn't a great speaker, his opinions on actually important stuff is often... just sad to hear, hyping up a 'bro effect and thats about it. Its like listening to that old buddy from primary school who struggled to get through high school, and now as an adult gathered some interesting opinions about the world, politics and…

He helped Trump win by promoting the guy right before the election, together with Theo Von. For clicks, and undeniably, money. Both are tools. One of them with a kick of a mule, still a tool.
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