It's really not a huge jump for your prompts to lead to an arrest for wrong think with this model. Europe may even require it if someone asks about the 6 million.
You could go back to using your brain to code instead. My company pays for Claude, but we're on personal plans linked to corporate e-mail and company credit cards. If they require this from me, I'll ask my boss just to cancel or switch us to a business plan.
I do use it more these days, and it has helped me get a lot of grunt work out of the way, but I do noticeably realize it's killing my cognitive software engineering abilities.
No, he wants regulatory capture. I think if the mask ever came off, he'd want the government to come in and crush Hugging Face, Civitai and any other distribution of open weight models, forcing everyone to go through an authorized provider like Antrhopic, under some bullshit about everything else being "too dangerous." He's no better than Sam Alternative-Man and any media disagreement is likely just smoke and mirrors to make it seem like they're two players in the field when in reality, it's getting incredibly cramped.
I love stuff like this, but even retro community people typically don't hook up Windows XP machines to the Internet (for hopefully obvious reasons). Still, at least you can connect to a site with modern TLS if you really need to with projects like this.
Can anyone cut through all the propaganda bullshit to tell us what this will really do? Like, will landlords that can barely keep their property up to code due to rent control now just sell to BlackRock/Silverlake backed equity firms that will fix them at a loss and then use legal loopholes to massively spike prices?
Who is paying him for these policies and which rich people benefit and which rich people lose? (don't bother with which NYC residents lose. The answer is all of them).
That's a defeatist attitude. It's NEVER too late! We have all of these crazy social justice warriors in all of open source, screaming like banshees if a developer mis-genders someone or willing to rip apart the Nix foundation because they have a defense department sponsor?
Where the hell are the people who made up insane shit about Vaxry, or tried to cancel Ladybird? Where are they when there's a real insane Orwellian legal issue and not some trivial bullshit?
There are already several distro who have said no to age verification:
No I don't think that's it. If it was just the installer, this person should have gotten it working. I was under the impression it was no longer Javascript and was instead some compiled, closed native code, and the either BSD ELF loader or its C library was missing some functionality it needed? /shrug
I put down real arguments for my statements which I think are reasonable to argue. You appeal to the status quo.
I think the earth is round. I'm a "globe-head," but I have MAD respect for people who hold such a controversial viewpoint. I think they're wrong, but I've read a lot of their stuff and don't think they're stupid.
I'm 50/50 on the moon landing. You would probably be too if you actually looked into it.
The scientifically learned use to thing leaches and bloodletting was innovative. Many of the things we think of as being scientifically enlightened today will be looked upon with horror 200 years from now.
I'm not so sure about his "real value," but I think he makes a decent argument, and he acknowledges the limitations of LLMs at the bottom. As someone who is critical of slop-coding and limits my use of the weighted random code generators, I think his points are worth reading.
The post isn't about the FreeBSD community. It's specifically about how Anthrophic is saying "f-you" to any type of cross-platform agent at all. They've closed issues for OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and many others:
This gets into the issue so many others have brought up: the death of open source. You can just get Claude or GPT to write you a new tool based on other's tests and specs. Now something that was GPLv3 can now be whatever your want, although it will probably be slower, shittier and more difficult (if not impossible) to understand and maintain.
Women posted their government IDs, including military IDs, in a stupid Tea/Gossip app. You or I refusing to participate means shit compared to the other 90% of the population.
Snowden's story makes zero sense. Former CIA employee turned NSA contractor, making six figures, working remotely in Hawaii, one day suddenly decides he has a conscience, somehow gets laptops filled with classified documents, hands them over in the South Pacific to Der Spegiel and Glenn Greenwald, then goes off to Russia where he's lived unmolested for years, and his smokin hot girlfriend joins him and he's never faced consequences where as Julian Assange was held captive in an embassy for years. Meanwhile, every other whistle blower that went to The Intercept was subsequently arrested and Greenwald still denies it was a honey pot, going as far as to throw Whitney Webb under the bus over it.
The reason nothing happened was because Snowden is still a State Dept or CIA asset. He's an actor and/or a limited hangout of some kind to show the US government and claim to be doing absolutely insane bullshit and nobody cares. New Zealand retroactively changed their laws (clearing John Key of any wrong doing for illegally spying on Kim Dotcom), allowing the GCHQ to legally spy on all their citizens.
As far as refusing to work for these companies, I was on Linux at work for over a decade. But after my last job I was forced to take a .NET role and with a $30k/yr paycut. It'd like to get back into a good role again where I can use Linux, but I'm not sure if I'd be willing to stand my ground on this issue, because I also don't want to lose my house and software jobs are incredibly scares right now. Unlike Snowden, I don't have a government paycheck coming in to continue spreading lies.
It's exactly what Abraham Lincoln did .. actually he went further and sentenced some news paper owners to death (overturned after the war).
Lincoln was not a good guy or pro-American (anti-speech, anti-due process), but he's viewed positively only because he won.
and as far as the Washington Compost, we know from the Church Committee the CIA likely has operatives in there. So unlike Lincoln, there was no real need to raid WaPo. It was likely just for show.
The church protest was cringe and garbage. I don't know what those people thought they were doing, but they basically turned even more people against them.
This whole ICE thing is a psychological operation. It's media manipulation and all the people violently protesting are useful idiots falling for it, or they're feds in disguise instigating more violence to turn around and give more crackdowns.
Don Lemon is one of the chosen media elites. He can sexually assault people and nothing happens. He's a terrible human being, but nothing will come from this. It's all smoke and mirror.
Well that's horrifying. I can see the coming "too big to fail" and tax payer bailout of the American silicon industry. Just one more step towards the era of The United States of Soviet America.
Mozilla is a hopelessly corrupt organization at this point. At any point they could block support from uBlock Origin working correctly. They still have all their Google money, so they won't be forced to make any real changes.
I have been on Librewolf for years. I use it on my personal machine and work machine. I know it's downstream and dependent on Mozilla/Gecko, but it's privacy aware and tries to strip out all their garbage.
LadyBird is our real hope now, not Servo. I hate all the slander levied against the lead LadyBird dev. He's an amazing individual who has overcome horrific drug addiction that almost destroyed his family. I try a LadyBird build every few months and it's pretty amazing how much work they've done.
LLMs don't "hallucinate" or "lie." They have no intent. They're Weighted Random Word Generator Machines. They're train mathematically to create series of tokens. Whenever they get something "right," it's literally by accident. If you get that rate of accidental rightness up to 80%, and people suddenly thing the random word generator is some kind of oracle. It's not. It's a large model with an embedded space, tokens and a whole series of computationally expensive perceptron and attention blocks that generate output.
The title/introduction is very baited, because it implies some "physical" connection to hallucinations in biological organism, but it's focused on trying to single out certain parts of the model. LLMs are absolutely nothing at all like a biological system, of which our brains are orders of magnitudes more complex than the machines we've built that we no longer fully understand. Believing in these LLMs as being some next stage in understanding intelligence is hubris.