But that is my point: if benchmaxxing was all the labs were doing, then surely the dumber model could/would have equivalent performance? Rather than noticeably worse perf on a (somewhat trivial to game) test.
On the one hand: yes, pelicans on bikes are definitely in the training set at this point.
On the other hand: the test is clearly not saturated, given that you can see a clear difference in output at the various reasoning levels / model versions.
I explicitly said it is your right to operate that way. But that doesn't mean your unproven accusations ("the company is evil") are true. It just means that is how you are choosing to operate / that is the standard of evidence you require for your positions. Many people (myself included) disagree with such a low bar: innocent until proven guilty (and not guilt by association) and all that.
You actually need to demonstrate that though. I have seen no evidence of Mullvad (again, as a company) behaving in a racist or anti-immigrant manner. Until that has been demonstrated, you cannot just say "this guy behaves this way so that is what his company does".
Regardless you can always say "I don't want to give this company money because that indirectly is gonna funnel money to an anti-immigrant political party in Sweden", and that is a perfectly valid position to take. But a lot of people in this thread are clearly going a step further than that, ostensibly in an attempt to give them a greater sense of moral superiority than is necessarily deserved.
1. People definitely start companies with a certain set of values and behaviors (as a company) and do entirely separate things in their private life. This is trivially true.
2. I don't think the personal values and the business mission in this case are even in conflict. You can be a racist and support free speech / privacy. Indeed, I'd actually say the venn diagram of "racists" and "people who vociferously espouse free speech ideals" is more union than it is disjoint.
Indeed, but the posturing/behavior of the USA's two, not-particularly-diverse political parties should probably not define the meaning of the words "left" and "right" (in a political context). There is more to politics than Democrats and Republicans.
It's a company: the deal is that they help enable free speech of their customers, not everyone on earth or everyone in Sweden or anywhere else.
A great litmus test for the (somewhat outrageous) claims in this thread: does Mullvad refuse to provide service to non-white immigrants in Sweden? If yes, then you have a point. If no, I do not think Mullvad is the entity that is confused in this situation.
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