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I wonder who gets to decide which companies make important and critical software and which ones get the scraps later.
by ryandrake 5mo ago
I wonder who gets to decide which companies make important and critical software and which ones get the scraps later.
- criddell 5mo agoThat would be Anthropic.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoWell, Anthropic thinks it should be the Trump administration [1]. This whole business just keeps getting dumber. 1: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
- solenoid0937 5mo agoRead the actual essay. I cannot possibly imagine how you come to that conclusion unless you're just arguing in bad faith.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoNo. You read the actual essay, then explain how we're supposed to interpret this more charitably: Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety. I am grateful to see the Trump administration’s Executive Order move incrementally towards a greater role for government in AI, though Anthropic’s proposal recommends even further action. They are all-but-literally sucking up to the administration that declared their company a supply-chain risk, arguing that the same administration should be given gatekeeping authority over all high-quality LLMs including open-weight releases. Go gaslight somebody else.
- solenoid0937 5mo agoThis is a pretty reasonable statement and I'm not sure how you could interpret this as "sucking up to the admin."
- CamperBob2 5mo agoIt's a pretty reasonable statement if you work for Anthropic and are eyeing your stock options nervously and your competitors even more so.
- solenoid0937 5mo agoEveryone that isn't a bitter cynic must be a shill.
- senordevnyc 5mo agoI’ve noticed that too many HN folks seem to think that cynicism makes them more intelligent. I think it must be some kind of insecurity, about not wanting to be seen as naive or something. It’s pretty sad though, I wonder how some of these people find any peace or joy in their lives.
- solenoid0937 5mo agoIt's a very common failure mode amongst the chronically online. It's a way for people to feel superior over others - really, they're just depriving themselves of joy and the idea that good things can and do exist in the world.
- lbreakjai 5mo agoBelieving they have any interests other than theirs at heart is like believing the stripper is really in love with you. That's not cynicism, that's just common sense.
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- margalabargala 5mo agoNo need to wonder. The answer is, the organization making the powerful tool. The people in charge of Anthropic. Not only that, but they've also written at length about exactly what their opinions and values are: https://darioamodei.com/ https://darioamodei.com/ You may not agree with the decisions that they make, but they're hardly mysterious. Not something to wonder about.
- Laurel1234 5mo agoAmodei has no values, he's a hollow husk and he'd sell his family into sex slavery if it could make him a buck.
- margalabargala 5mo agoNonsense. Everyone has values. "Make myself maximum money" is a value. "Amass maximum power over the world's information" is a value. It's clear Amodei certainly follows the latter, and I would soften the former somewhat for him; they did after all decline the Pentagon contract that would have made money but would have meant giving up some control of information.
- trollbridge 5mo agoThe one they ended up going “well I guess we’ll contract with them after all”, after cleverly using their sort-of-refusal to gain a ton of goodwill and new customers?
- margalabargala 5mo agoYes, because it changed slightly, addressing their complaint. The complaint was small in scope. Again, just because someone has values, doesn't mean they have values you think are good.
- Laurel1234 5mo agoThose aren't values. Maybe goals or motivations but not values in any conceivable way, shape or form. This site is full of pod people I swear.