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I used to interact with the LW crowd… and they were mostly not outright swindlers or scoundrels. (from what I could sense) I think it’s fair to say most had de

I used to interact with the LW crowd… and they were mostly not outright swindlers or scoundrels. (from what I could sense) I think it’s fair to say most had decent respectability. Anthropic hired heavily from that pool so it’s astonishing how it turned out.

solenoid0937 3mo ago
Everything they do is understandable if you think they are being honest when they say they're building superintelligence. In this case they want to prevent a nation that censors its citizenry, puts/disappears dissidents into concentration camps for decades, and makes its own human rights lawyers literally eat their own shit, before raping and/or murdering them, from reaching superintelligence. In this light, some client side code to potentially identify and ban the Chinese labs to slow them down by even a few days, is totally reasonable.
- skeptic_ai 3mo ago
  And do a -10 in their reputation. Plus blow up on hn first item on home page. I’m sure they are not very happy about this. And the sentiment of the people is going more negative by the week. I have a feeling they will eventually drop the facade of “we’re the nice and ethic people” and will work with palantir so they can survive the future: ipo and models bans.
  - solenoid0937 3mo ago
    I doubt Anthropic cares about the HN front page. They've done a bunch of things that hurt their valuation to stick to their red lines. To me it just reads as unsupported cynicism to call it a facade.
    - skeptic_ai 3mo ago
      At that time made sense to stick to keep the image. But eventually money > image. I have no doubt they will do whatever it takes to keep going. Even if that means killing people.
      - solenoid0937 3mo ago
        It's extremely bizarre to think Anthropic of all companies will kill people, given that they are probably the only tech company in the modern era that has demonstrated some moral backbone, even under threat of being shut down. There are way more companies at the top of the list here that have no moral compass, like Meta etc.

solenoid0937 3mo ago

Everything they do is understandable if you think they are being honest when they say they're building superintelligence. In this case they want to prevent a nation that censors its citizenry, puts/disappears dissidents into concentration camps for decades, and makes its own human rights lawyers literally eat their own shit, before raping and/or murdering them, from reaching superintelligence. In this light, some client side code to potentially identify and ban the Chinese labs to slow them down by even a few days, is totally reasonable.

skeptic_ai 3mo ago
And do a -10 in their reputation. Plus blow up on hn first item on home page. I’m sure they are not very happy about this. And the sentiment of the people is going more negative by the week. I have a feeling they will eventually drop the facade of “we’re the nice and ethic people” and will work with palantir so they can survive the future: ipo and models bans.
- solenoid0937 3mo ago
  I doubt Anthropic cares about the HN front page. They've done a bunch of things that hurt their valuation to stick to their red lines. To me it just reads as unsupported cynicism to call it a facade.
  - skeptic_ai 3mo ago
    At that time made sense to stick to keep the image. But eventually money > image. I have no doubt they will do whatever it takes to keep going. Even if that means killing people.
    - solenoid0937 3mo ago
      It's extremely bizarre to think Anthropic of all companies will kill people, given that they are probably the only tech company in the modern era that has demonstrated some moral backbone, even under threat of being shut down. There are way more companies at the top of the list here that have no moral compass, like Meta etc.