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I went into a pub in Dublin tonight and every seat was taken, so I stood by the bar. A man sitting there got up and offered me his seat. I said, “Aww, no, you sit,” and he said, “Never.” So I sat.
Men do this. They always have. They give up seats, carry heavy things, and put themselves between women and danger. I don’t understand why this is so often dismissed or ignored in conversations about gender and equality and the framing is that men have always been oppressors. That simply isn’t true.
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Elon Musk flips a vehicle upside down and everyone claps and cheers. But when I do it, suddenly I'm "recklessly endangering children" and "unfit to be a school bus driver".
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Most domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time. Their real function is to fill the God-shaped hole, sized for penance, prayer, and sacrifice, in people's souls. wsj.com/opinion/most-recycli…
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what Elon Musk has done to make my life better:
- electric cars
- satellite internet
- saved free speech
what Jeff Bezos has done to make my life better:
- nationwide next-day delivery
- architecture that powers the internet
what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have done to make my life better:
- made the internet searchable
- online email and documents platform
what Mark Zuckerberg has done to make my life better:
- social media to keep me connected to friends
- online ads platform
what Larry Ellison has done to make my life better:
- database software for my businesses
- data centers for AI and cloud computing
what Jensen Huang has done to make my life better
- hardware that powers the AI revolution
what Bernie Sanders has done to make my life better:
🤖 Made with AI
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Once you understand that the world is full of highly neurotic people who need a doom's day scenario to validate their emotions, it all makes much more sense: Malthusian starvation, pandemic, climate, and now AI. I wish we still had "the devil" to play this part.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all had security incidents that trace back to IRREGULAR: an evaluator tied into the same network that funded Jacob Coxon and invested early in Anthropic.
you must definitely read this:
WOW... Anthropic has a surprisingly dense web of connections to the world’s largest funder of "catastrophic-risk" work (aka AI doom):
> Open Philanthropy → built by Karnofsky + Moskowitz’s Good Ventures
> Good Ventures → funded Jacob Coxon’s scholarship
> Karnofsky → married to Daniela Amodei, Dario's sister and Anthropic's president
> Moskowitz → early investor in Anthropic
> Dario → scientific advisor to Open Phil years before Anthropic
> Karnofsky now works at Anthropic on AI safety strategy
> Open Phil-funded MATS → Evan Hubinger → now Anthropic alignment-science lead
> Hubinger backed Coxon: "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"
> Ethan Perez → Open Phil fellow + ~$1M Open Phil research grant → Anthropic Head of Alignment
> also backed Coxon: "100% agree with [Coxon] that AI poses serious risks to society, and I'm glad he's speaking out!"
is this kind of a dense network normal for a company?
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Google's "Attention is All You Need" paper came from trying to get a 3% gain in Google Translate.
Innovation is a consequence of production. "If you don't make the thing, you cede your opportunity to innovate on the thing."
~ Palantir's CTO @ssankar
This is the way
i'm glad elon bought cursor so they can actually compete
i'm glad openai still has teeth and infinite compute
i'm glad anthropic is pushing the frontier and competition forces them not to hide it
i'm glad the zuck is taking this seriously
i hope google gets its shit together
i'm glad china is catching up
i'm sad europe is not
i don't want concentration of power
i want a multipolar world with healthy competition
i want humanity to thrive
i want my children to grow in a better world
i want to cure cancer
i want to understand the universe
i want people to be truly free, and freedom is just the capacity of execute your own will
i want the future to be bright
Anthropics big ticket customers are B2B primarily.
But Snubbing the subscription users is still a problem because the vast majority of the online folks who influence the AI narative are solo or small company devs who use the subscriptions and are not paying direct API prices like corporations are forced to pay.
That's especially important because the vast majority of users or potential users including those in big corporations don't actually know what the best model is. It's actually incredibly hard to know given that there's so much benchmaxxing and overfitting and many of the qualities that make Claude special, show up less in benchmarks and more in real world use.
However, if all the social media AI opinion makers who primarily use subscriptions cancel because Fable is omitted, they will become evangelists for another path like Codex, Cursor or Grok Build (It seems like 4.5 is the most claude like experience of the remaining options)
Suddenly corportate CTO's who decidde what to spend their AI compute budget on will be seeing other names lionised every day as the "Greatest AI model/dev harness off all time".
It won't be long before the trickle down shift away from Claude gathers steam. The subscription users are the canary in the coalmine, the pied piper of hamlin, whose lead and zeitgeist the corporations follow. Snubbing them on subscriptions would remove Anthropics most valuable marketing tool in one fell swoop.
I suspect they will release Claude 5 instead but I don't think that will be enough to stop the erosion of reputation. If Fable is indeed not viable economically to serve on the $200 plan, I would far prefer a $500 plan that included it. We would grumble, but most would still pay (especially if limits were higher). It's a delicate dance for them to walk and I'm not at all sure they will manage it.
sorry, i call bs. In my opinion, Anthropic isn't worried about losing customers. And the reason is quite simple:
They barely make any money in the B2C sector. Subscriptions are heavily subsidized; their compute and Fable 5 are primarily intended for businesses and enterprises, and these customers are willing to pay immensely high costs for them. This is also Anthropic's main source of revenue; it's the area where they are far ahead of OpenAI.
Dario certainly isn't losing sleep over this and isn't running around hysterically because he's afraid consumers will cancel their subsidized Max plans due to the lack of Fable 5. At best, this will free up more compute for the relevant areas.
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Hot take: They're not subsidized their margins are insane. They are just absolutely raping api customers. Anyone who has used deepseek or hosted anything and done the math on hardware/power costs knows this
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Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home.
Have they considered maybe he just doesn’t want to come back?
This is the 4D chess move by China to try to slow the competition because they are behind in the greatest technological breakthrough of the age
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Hey @ewarren is that em dash (—) you used in your text (the most distinctive sign that text was written by AI), just a coincidence, or are you non-ironically using AI to complain about AI?
