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The solution is for the government to pay the actual cost of the regulations instead of making the property owner eat most of it.

The reality is either you (the policymaker) find it important enough to bear the cost or it's not important enough for anyone to do it. The Swedish solution in the sibling comment demonstrates the right mindset.


These kinds of groups (and apps such as Tea) are always litigation magnets. Not too surprising.

Normal adults demand honesty.

> but the README

His stated objections would not be read as "I will try to sabotage you" by a normal person.


I've read your comment a few times but cannot grasp the intended meaning fully. the creator claims to have made this change clear in multiple locations and on multiple occasions, accusations of sabotage therefore seem like rephrasings of 'i didnt read anything while upgrading my copy of this library'

> the creator claims to have made this change clear in multiple locations

He made his stance on AI clear. He didn't say anything about deleting users' data until after the scandal broke.


'You are not allowed to, and shouldn't touch my repo with AI.' seems like a sufficient disclaimer for undefined behaviour.

It's pretty easy to adhere to that rule.


'user data' in this case refers to your copy of his software. how should software react when its explicit prerequisites are not followed? should software do nothing and allow incorrect usage, therefore potentially leading to unaccounted issues down the track? do we complain that adobe is petulant for restricting product access when license conditions aren't met?

That's the real problem.

No one can predict the upper bound of what he'll do for the sake of "the right thing", and his specific concept of it goes beyond relatively universal principles, so the risk of relying on his work is unbounded.


$6000 of usage in three days???

Makes me think they're not using anthropic directly but rather any downstream provider. Pretty much everyone has broken caching for anthropic models, which can make requests a couple dozen times more expensive for long contexts.

I did manage to blow through about 1k in a day once doing this, so I can see how one might reach 6k with broken caching + heavy workloads.

For comparison: What cost me me $1k via openrouter would have cost me maybe the weekly allowance of a claude max x20 subscription with proper caching (so like $50 instead). Don't use credits on claude by the way. That's another ripoff (just get more subscriptions).

You really can screw this up and pay x20 what you could have.


Nope, using anthropic directly. But you're right, rewriting history busts cache and it gets expensive really fast.

Crazy to think that people in some places in the world work for $2 per day. Jailbraking fable is economically equivalent to the labor of a thousand people.

Indeed, it’s also crazy to think that some people vaporize tin pellets in order to etch nanometer scale drawings on silicon crystals while others make mud pies. I think that disparity is even bigger.

Wait until you hear how many families could survive on the food you throw away

Yeah but that's a distribution problem, not a production one. The starving Africans line didn't work on me as a kid.

(tongue firmly in cheek)


The gas wasted transporting food that's getting wasted would probably make a huge dent in the problem too.

That's a bit of a miss, I don't throw away much. Restaurants and supermarkets OTOH... I understand the attempt to make me feel bad though, it would make me think I'm complicit, and shouldn't say things like that.

Probably none?

It's high but totally achievable with "loop" style harnesses or lots of parallel subagents/agent teams.

Everybody needs a hobby

3x 20x accounts + they reset a couple of times.

The default orientation of Americans toward government is already skepticism and distrust. The average person is questioning "why did you ever like the government in the first place?"

I don't believe that at all, the average person voted for this government.

The average person didn't vote.

If you're referring to voters staying home, staying home is a vote for their state's majority. There's no sense in which the average citizen in a democracy is not responsible for the outcome of a democratic vote.

That’s not even factually true. Turnout in 2024 was 63.7%[1] of the voting age population. You’re just wrong.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_...


If you include people not allowed to vote (e.g under 18) it is below 50%

What do you think "voting age" means? The first sentence on the linked page is "The overall turnout of eligible voters in the 2024 general election was 63.7%"

Huh, I must have inverted that number in my head. Thanks!

Not voting is a vote for the status quo.

Not being politically active is a political choice itself.


This is categorically wrong, but even then - those that do not vote at all bear even more responsibility, and are traitors to democracy itself. By not participating in shaping it, you're dishonouring everyone that fought and died for your freedom.

> Those who are under attack happen to also be the biggest copyrighter holders, so this would open up a new avenue of attack.

Don't threaten me with a good time


If you merely get feedback from a human, are they now a co-author?

If the feedback or involvement is substantive it used to be common to mention this, even if just in a prologue, epilogue, or footnote. You still see this is some academic writing and some journalism, where authors mention with whom they consulted. Books and other literature have tended to dissociate people from sources of knowledge, and the Internet furthered the dissociation. But honest writing should disclose all the sources of substantive claims, preferably traced back to primary sources. Legal writing and scientific papers are perhaps the last bastions where this is still done, or at least expected to be done, fairly rigorously, but the manner in which AI is used seems qualitatively more problematic for maintaining any kind of rigor in citation.

FWIW this post has both a "thanks" section for the human reviewers, and numerous footnotes linking to more authoritative sources.

A WASM browser is cool for general portability reasons. Right now porting browsers to bespoke targets is a major PITA, even for WebKit.

I'm sure millions of people will rearrange their lives in due consideration of your morality overlord status.

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