I’ve joined Anthropic

Post by godelski » Wed, May 20, 2026, 6:35 AM UTC

Fricken wrote: post #524

joe_mamba wrote: post #496

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>Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? That I also want to know. He bailed out of Tesla right when the limitations of his "LIDAR-less cameras only self driving" system were becoming obvious, and nobody asked him about the hindsight of this obvious fuckup. >but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features. Exact…

With a cursory glance at Tesla's hardware the rest of the self driving car industry quickly surmised that it was at the time nowhere near sufficient to to deliver L4 autonomy, and that's before sensor modalities entered the equation. Karpathy was either BSing for money, or he actually believed the hype. Either way it was a bad look.

  > it was at the time nowhere near sufficient to to deliver L4 autonomy

Post by zmmmmm » Wed, May 20, 2026, 7:16 AM UTC

ollin wrote: post #246

meetpateltech wrote: post #210

Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to Anthropic. Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-a...

Specifically it looks like he's planning to extend the ideas from https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch into a larger effort towards recursive training improvement [1]: > Excited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He'll be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself. I can’t think of anyone better suited to do it — looking forward to what we build together! [1] https:/…

Post by tehjoker » Wed, May 20, 2026, 7:18 AM UTC

fasterik wrote: post #452

bugufu8f83 wrote: post #450

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Their statement on this issue opened by emphasizing how eager they are to help kill people: >I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. There is no universe where this can be described as anything close to ethical.

It's not controversial to say that democracy is a more ethical form of government than autocracy. It's also not controversial to say that violence is sometimes justified when it's in self-defence or to prevent a greater injustice from happening. So what's the ethical objection to that statement?

Post by constantius » Wed, May 20, 2026, 7:45 AM UTC

radlad wrote: post #553

jazzyjackson wrote: post #512

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They didn’t even take the position that it was unethical to participate in surveillance and kill chains, just that the tech isn’t ready yet so it’s irresponsible to use it that way.

The position they took sounds much more politically feasible than the one you suggest they should've taken, at a time when the White House was threatening them with the Defense Production Act.

Post by wartywhoa23 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 8:04 AM UTC

clbrmbr wrote: post #511

amunozo wrote: post #280

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The difference is that Anthropic pretend they're the good guys, while the rest don't.

Come on, Anthropic ARE the good guys if there are any. Certainly the incentives of trillions will do what money does, but they have assembled an incredibly altruistic and philosophically-minded crew. I’m rooting for them and trying real hard not to get cynical.