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Didn't their CEO argue how super powerful and dangerous their AI models are and government should be able to restricting usage

https://abc7.com/post/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-stron...

> "We're proposing stronger regulation of the technology, proposing giving the government the ability to, again, in a narrow way, block deployment of unsafe technology," he said.

The government: "We're restricting its usage to US citizens only"

Anthropic: "No, no, not like that! "


I mean, yes, correct, literally "not like that" is the complaint. Government arbitrarily picking and choosing what's allowed in order to force everyone to curry favor is very different from an general well-documented regulatory framework. It is not weird for someone who favors the latter to call foul at the former.

> Government arbitrarily picking and choosing

Their CEO was asking for it. Their whole marketing angle is their model is so powerful and dangerous.

Someone showed the government how the powerful and dangerous features can be unlocked with a 'fix bugs' prompt then it when and did exactly what their CEO asked for.


And yet, "not like this" is still the correct conclusion to draw with respect to this kind of corrupt political favoritism.

Where is the favoritism? Did other CEOs come out and say their models are crazy dangerous? Dario asked for this behavior and he got it. I guess he hoped to kneecap Deepseek or others. That's how companies operate, once they are big enough they want all the regulations because they know they can navigate them and others catching up may not be able to. Their own fear mongering around this demand backfired.

Yes, everyone in the space has front loaded the concerns about the power of this technology. Dario did not "ask for" singling out by a gangster administration. I probably agree with you about regulatory capture, but just "we don't like you, you haven't licked our boots enough, so we're going to screw with you" is a totally different thing. It's a different thing that is new to the modern history of the US. It's not new in general, lots of governments have been corrupt in this same way throughout history. But that's bad, and we shouldn't adopt that approach in the United States.

I agree that the fear mongering is bad, but that's a total pretext for what happened here.


You guys are going to have to find another argument because this is just stupid. Being singled out doesn’t equate to regulation being applied.

The story is: anthropic refuses to give the US give an abliterated version of Claude for their weapons system, the US gov retaliates.

You’re rooting for the mass murderers, good job


> You’re rooting for the mass murderers, good job

How did you figure that? Who are you talking about?


I hear this argument about the weapon a lot but it makes no sense. Sure for intelligence processing etc but what weapons system would an llm be a good match for.

> Also, you can only create a crates.io account with a GitHub account

Oh is that true? They tied themselves to Microsoft it seems. What about people who won't or can't use GitHub.


As far as I understand, this is purely a result of lack of maintainer resources. Apparently, nobody has been bothered enough by this to contribute the relevant changes.

Keep in mind that all of rustc and libs development takes place on Github.



Yes, unfortunately it is true. Sad, but I could live with that.

What in my opinion is unacceptable is that it requires you to give permission to "read your organization and team membership and private Projects".

I made a separate GitHub account (weinzierl-trusted-publisher) for crates.io which is far from ideal, because it works completely against the idea to build trust for a single unified identity online, but ¯\(ツ)/¯.


Multiple free accounts are also against GitHub TOS

I pay for my main account, but good point.

A clause that I think should be illegal, btw

> While they're at it, they should kick out the French, the Germans, the Italians, and any other immigrants refusing to speak Swiss.

What's this Swiss language you speak of? I never heard of it. You must mean Romansh but that's only 0.5% of the population or so. You'd have to kick out 95.5% of the Swiss population too then?


That’s their point. Switzerland is a nation of immigrants. We don’t tend to be portrayed as such outside. And the SVP tends to forget this. (As does the GOP.)

Ah you're right. I did miss their sarcasm. Sometimes you can't tell online

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law


Are you Swiss? I thought you were American from previous interactions.

> Are you Swiss? I thought you were American from previous interactions

I’m more than one thing. (But only vote in two places.)


If burning $33B would make $66B somewhere else then I can see them doing it.

> field. It has the advantage of allowing voltage regulation through adjustment of the field, rather than after the fact, which would be far less efficient

That and not having huge strong magnets is nice when doing maintenance.


The power is getting to their heads it seems.

With the guard rails explicit or implicit do they refund back the tokens after you've hit the guard rails? I guess they don't. They could just throttle you just to save money then. You may be paying Fable prices but getting Haiku results with some excuse that well this coding issue sounds like a security bug.

I don't know, I'd rather have something less powerful but more predictable.


For some reason I imagined death from The Seventh Seal by Bergman here. Very calm and matter for fact kind of a character. Maybe once in a while he may decide to visit for a game of chess...

This has the "do you even know who you're talking to?" air from Apple. Everyone should comply but not us, we're too cool and too damn important.

> The United States is not exactly lacking in athletic prowess, as our women’s team and our success in other sports show.

That's one of the answers: it's seen as a "women's" sport mostly. In school boys play football and girls play soccer in rough general terms. And because football, basketball, baseball is already there there just isn't much demand for another "ball" sport to care about so to speak.


This is hilarious because we think the same about any sport that isn't soccer (football) in much of Latin America: "basketball / baseball is what girls play" is the tagline folks said growing up

Absolutely. It's funny how that works in a way. And then we end up with articles like "how come such and such a sport isn't popular, it's obviously such a great sport".

Some of it may be just adversarial, Americans wouldn't like soccer because well they want to feel special and different than Europeans. And likely Europeans or say Brazilians just wouldn't like American football, it just looks goofy to them.


> That's one of the answers: it's seen as a "women's" sport mostly. In school boys play football and girls play soccer in rough general terms.

I’ve never heard that, in fact there are more boys who play in America than girls.


It's funny, at Cornell I think the men play soccer better than the woman unequivocally but at Ithaca College the men play a very physical but stupid game whereas the women play a much smarter game when it comes to controlling the space.

A men's and women's sport that can be played with the same facilities is an economic plus -- college soccer is a great way to have fun supporting your school. It's a very different situation than field hockey, which is almost exclusively a woman's sport in the US although it is a huge men's sport in India and many other countries.


> The TLS certificate is CN=*.luminatinet.com — the domain for Luminati Networks, Bright Data’s pre-2018 corporate name

Ah yes. The big privacy scraping company called themselves The Luminati. It’s like they are side-investing in tin foil hats or something.


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