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811.
by baq 8mo ago
Mega corps should be compelled to and rewarded for allowing parents to monitor their children’s dms.
812.
by baq 8mo ago
> In 2030, how is Anthropic going to keep Claude "up-to-date" In 2030 Anthropic hopes Claude will keep Anthropic "up-to-date" on its progress on itself. I'm only half joking here.
813.
by baq 8mo ago
Clock is a social contract. China has just one time zone and it seems to work fine.
814.
by baq 8mo ago
DST and time zones have been invented much later than Protestantism, so I wouldn’t worry about the ethical part specifically
815.
by baq 8mo ago
Great! But note I haven’t said that you should be doing the research. This was more of a warning about today, but it also was a different kind of warning about the next 12-18 months once models catch up to what this guy wants to do with the
816.
by baq 8mo ago
If you bothered to do any research at all you’d know the author as an extreme, frontier, avant-garde, eccentric LLM user and I say it as an LLM enthusiast.
817.
by baq 8mo ago
Nobody in their right mind would sponsor this project to be hand written.
818.
by baq 8mo ago
It sounds scifi, but not naive anymore.
819.
by baq 8mo ago
Remote MCP solve the distribution problem just like everyone uses web apps for everything nowadays instead of desktop apps. Local MCP servers make as much sense as local web apps.
820.
by baq 8mo ago
> Microsoft not having taste the liquid glass designers (and probably their managers and design vps) should be repeatedly punched in the face with that video
821.
by baq 8mo ago
they're distilling claude and openai obviously. that said, sonnet 4.5 is not a good model today, March 1st 2026. (it blew my mind on its release day, September 29th, 2025.)
822.
by baq 8mo ago
code is orthogonal to spec. you can iterate on the code and iterate on the spec. the spec is not meant to be constant, it's a form of ECC for the artifacts of the coding pipeline.
823.
by baq 8mo ago
I used to believe that, I think there are also some very ambitious people nearby who want to use US armed forces for their benefit - as any rational player who has influence over such power would attempt.
824.
by baq 8mo ago
In the great age of grift wars ideally last no more than the time between Friday market close and Sunday futures open.
825.
by baq 8mo ago
Normal people are starting to call themselves goyim and aren’t afraid to call themselves antisemites anymore. You can look at this from many angles (sitting here in Eastern Europe watching history repeat itself again in 4 years is a very
826.
by baq 8mo ago
let's see... > Populist nationalism + “infallible” redemptive leader cult > Scapegoated “enemies”; imprison/murder opposition/minority leaders > Supremacy of military / paramilitarism; glorify violence as redemp
827.
by baq 8mo ago
$68M/10000 employees = $6800/1 employee A lot? Not a lot? Don’t know anymore.
828.
by baq 8mo ago
> bans use of generative AI that ship has sailed with codex 5.3 in 90% SWE jobs, unfortunately. I expect the next 9% won't survive the following 12 months and the last 1% is done within 5 years. it isn't even about principles -
829.
by baq 8mo ago
Anthropic has conditions, the Pentagon has billions of carrots and millions of sticks.
830.
by baq 8mo ago
The obvious countries sign those treaties for political reasons. There are countries officially pretending they don’t have any nuclear warheads, but it is well known by everyone they have plenty and a capacity to deliver them. They sandbag
831.
by baq 8mo ago
That’s exactly why I think the principled position is naive in a tragedy of the commons situation we’re in - it isn’t a sci fi story with a happy ending, it’s the Manhattan project and 70+ years ago nazi and japanese data centers doing foun
832.
by baq 8mo ago
Get a prop with difficulty/importance quadrants and silently tap sign on meetings
833.
by baq 8mo ago
Not really, actually. This usually means outright ban because per project is next to impossible to enforce internally.
834.
by baq 8mo ago
If they made a completely private nuclear reactor and ended up with a pile of weapons grade plutonium, what do you think the department of war would do? It was completely obvious it would happen, as it will be not surprising when laws are p
835.
by baq 8mo ago
> our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers and the best part is that when others follow, ZIRP will be back. this is going to be a proper mess.
836.
by baq 8mo ago
Employees and employers are not sitting at the same table, this is a category error. We're talking lab to lab. Obviously in a fiercely competitive market like this with serious players not sharing the same set of rules it's close
837.
by baq 8mo ago
> I hope they're willing to risk losing their seat at the table to be guided by values. that's about as naive as it can be. if they have any values left at all (which I hope they have) them not being at the table with labs
838.
by baq 8mo ago
Everybody* east of the iron curtain was carted around in cattle carriages. Both my grandmothers were and neither was German. *not really everybody, obviously
839.
by baq 8mo ago
> I don't believe for a second we'll have an evil AI. Doesn’t have to be evil to be disastrous. Misaligned is plenty enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
840.
by baq 8mo ago
Today’s bingo: 1. Powerful, often exclusionary, populist nationalism centered on cult of a redemptive, “infallible” leader who never admits mistakes. 2. Political power derived from questioning reality, endorsing myth and rage, and promotin

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