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> Their argument is that all team members should use the same tools, and I guess that is a valid point.
Why?! It is a text editor for crying out loud. If you are more productive using the tools you want, don't cost anything to the company and doesn't force your colleagues to adopt your workflow, you could be working with notepad for all I care.
I think we are talking about the same thing and reaching wildly different conclusions. If "producing is just the input side" and you still need people to check if the product really solves the user's problems, then I get to conclude that the bottleneck has never been the "generating the code" part of the work, and actual productivity - i.e, delivering things that actually solves the customer's problem - is pretty much the same.
Do you seriously think that "institutional knowledge" can be maintained by simply writing down a few pages on Confluence or whatever system your company uses for internal documentation?
If you think your business depends on the ability for you to outspend the competition on LLM tokens, then you should cut your losses and shut it down right now.
> it seems that you don't really care about that issue.
Not in the particular. What I care about is the concentration of power and having to live in a world where a handful of corporations fully dictate how everyone should work.
> you're unhappy you can't access Fable and Mythos.
Not at all. I don't personally care. You can find me on record saying that I'd rather work with local models that are "dumber" but can simply assist me through a process, instead of outsourcing all my thinking to a huge LLM.
> Frankly, I think a lot of these companies are ethically-challenged
But you are still sticking by them, aren't you? Why?
These are a lot of rationalizations for you to justify the actions of a company whose CEO talks a lot about ethics, but when push comes to shove acts like any other corporate drone.
Also, you are talking a lot about what Anthropic can do but completely evading to actually say what you think they should do. It tells me that you know how reprehensible their ethics are, but for some reason you refuse to reject them.
You continue with the strawmen. This is beyond grating.
> Do you mean you're just pushing fiat through stable coins into an exchange?
Not necessarily. The idea is that crypto allows you a backup. If it's possible to work with an exchange, fine. If not, then quite likely people will be able to make do by making transactions in person. And yes, I've been to Argentina and I exchanged ETH for ARS in person. It's almost as easy to find someone who exchanges crypto as it is to find someone who exchanges USD or EUR. It's not a hypothetical or vague situation.
> you may as well say "pay via paypal" or "pay via putting dollars into a bank of america account I keep open since I was a student abroad." (...) I don't see where there's some magic "crypto ledger"
There isn't any magic. It's just that you take everything for granted and you had the privilege to live in a world where "just use paypal" or "just use a foreign bank account when I was studying abroad" is completely ordinary.
> new customers are not being required to verify their ID by default
If they want to use Mythos, they need to provide the ID. It has become a two-class service.
> I find it odd to base a decision to close a Claude account on the basis that asking for ID verification represents an assault against privacy.
The decision does not have one specific reason. For example, I closed my account when they stopped allowing usage of OpenCode with a regular subscription. Some other people are now asking if the service they are getting is really worth it and if they should support a company which actively working towards this two-class system.
How is the view from your imaginary moral high horse?
Try this: you are a paralegal working with translating/notarizing documents from Spanish to English in Argentina. You have clients in the UK - a wine importer. You send an invoice for your work, it's circa GBP 500, about 1 million Argentinian Pesos.
Then, you tell them about the payment options:
- pay via SWIFT. will have a 30% surcharge to account for difference between the "official" exchange rate and the "black" one, and the fact that it takes at least 7 days to clear. Keep in mind that you live in a country facing 30%+ annual inflation rate.
- pay via cryptocurrency, which can be settled immediately, you can convert to Pesos faster and at a better rate than the official one.
Are you saying that the only correct moral action is to go through the banks?
You've created a strawman. In no point a said "society collapse". I am talking about failing institutions.
You can find on this very same comment section a handful of people who live in places where cryptocurrency enables people to work around failing institutions and/or protect their wealth from systemic corruption.
Leaving Anthropic to go to OpenAI is as pointless move as it can be. If both options you are considering are cut from the cloth, financed by the same oligarchs and playing the same game from the same elites, then the game is rigged.
This is some weird whataboutism, and it doesn't answer my question.
> Anthropic asking customers who voluntarily choose to do business
Anthropic is changing the terms. It used to be until last week that ID is not required. Now it is. Some of these customers are now reconsidering their relationship, and it seems you are here saying they should just accept it without a second thought, because "this is what other companies do it anyway". This is the part I am struggling to understand.
That's a weak argument. If the institutions can collapse because a few powerful people can work against it, then the institution has already failed in the first place.
Trump and the general rise of Populism is not the cause of the fall of Western democracies, it is a consequence.
Exactly. Cryptocurrency is useful as as a backup system against failing/weak institutions. Just that. Like insurance, it was not there to make anyone's lives better but simply to become a safeguard to avoid complete collapse.
- Communick (https://communick.com) is a provider for social media and messaging platforms that are based on open protocols.
- CareerCupid (https://cupid.careers) is a site to make it easier to see if job seekers fit well with a company and would-be coworkers. Like a dating site, but for your professional connections.
- Django ActivityPub Toolkit (https://activitypub.mushroomlabs.com) is a Generic ActivityPub server that can connect you or your existing web application with the wider Fediverse.
- Fediverser (https://fediverser.network) aims to make it as easy as possible to migrate from Reddit to Lemmy.
- Hub20 (https://hub20.io) is an open source, self-hosted payment gateway for cryptocurrencies, currently focused on Ethereum and its scaling solutions. You can accept payments and also use your node to host "crypto wallets" for your friends or a closed community of people that trust each other.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/lullis; my proof: https://keybase.io/lullis/sigs/BInOa9RtBJ7qEX9m-kep0dQDBGxoNb5rXzhno3M27ok ]
The best way to reach out nowadays is through Mastodon (@[email protected]) or Matrix (same username/server).
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