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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
*financial engineering
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
I doubt the point is to "make the money back". It's likely split between two goals: 1. Marketing and expressing to their customers that they are not falling behind, and 2. Insulating themselves from frontier labs jacking up p
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
Harvey and Clio both make entire products around this. They have raised billions of dollars. That's not really the point though; it doesn't have to be "legal specific". The key is in understanding that "Basic chatbo
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
This doesn’t sound as much that “LLMs can’t help me” as much as “trying to one-shot a complicated answer in a chatbot can’t help me”. Output straight from a generative model definitely should not be trusted. But that doesn’t mean that an
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
Anthropic's issues, as I see them, are: 1. They acted as if they were so far ahead capability wise that they could stop listening to their users. That is basically it. It is an extremely common belief that Opus 5 acts like a condesce
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
To be clear I do not believe it is intentional (nor do I believe I am somehow smarter or more knowledgable than the people running these processes). I believe it is (very) unfortunately converging on the communication style that currently m
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
I do not have evidence or data that supports this. It is only my thought. Claude, since Opus 5, speaks more and more like a wannabe-thought-leader pontificating on social media for engagement. Everything is a bait-then-switch, or a multi-
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
I struggled with this for a long time , but actually seem to have gotten to a place where this is largely resolved. Copy/paste from my current claude.md: The CC-5 rule specifically seems to be (just from reading through, nothing repea
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
> I feel that YC just invests in anything these days. When there is a popular gold rush, YC invests in many companies that do the same thing with the expectation that 1) a rising tide lifts all ships, and 2) if there is a clear winner, t
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
If you actually believe that he didn't , you are, at best, out of touch. His little "DOGE" endeavor was actively caught exfiltrating personal data about everyone in the country, and the first thing that happened after Spac
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
The US has (especially recently) shown that "community aligned behavior" and "what those in power do" are very different. The US has also shown that the probability of someone being held accountable for massive abuse of
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither, pound the table." It's 2026; we can probably update "pound the table" to "pound social
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
If Apple had published all of the details/data publicly, then they publicly could. But that is not the claim, and no one is even pretending that that's what happened.
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by nrmitchi 2mo ago
There are absolutely laws about IP theft. That's why it's called Intellectual Property . You really don't want the law to be "Well you didn't lose a physical thing, so why should it be illegal?"
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
US Government, have we got a deal for you! Brand new weapon. It's basically a super soldier. You could put it into a decked-out hulkbuster style robot body! It mostly does what you tell it to. Sometimes it thinks you're dumb and j
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
Because “rm -rf” is a known, explicitly provided-in-docs-and-training command. It is fundamentally different capability than “identified and chained multiple previously unknown exploits in order to bypass restrictions”. It’s even worse when
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
Clients are not using it with security guardrails disabled . If you want to run it with all the safeties turned off, you don’t run it somewhere it can escape. Did we learn nothing from all of those Star Trek holodeck jailbreaks?
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
If you (in this case, OpenAI) can’t find a way to answer this question to a reasonable degree of accuracy without falling back to “yolo let’s see what happens” you are in no position to be doing this research. Regardless, they (reportedly)
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
You can have large scale airgapped environments. They don’t even need to be fully airgapped from each other (and is not what I’m suggesting). But there should be no physical (physical layer; wireless counts) to the internet.
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
Sure, but there is a definition of “airgapped” and that is not it.
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
If you are attempting to run exercises like this, it is wildly negligent to not be running it in a physically-airgapped environment (potentially with a physical power shutdown). You can not tell me that OpenAI doesn’t have the resources or
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
""" If you own the bank $1000, thats your problem. If you owe the bank $1.7B, thats the banks problem. """ What I would be curious about (and I'm sure AWS will never share) is where the incorrect number ca
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by nrmitchi 3mo ago
Software people want to be “engineers” when it’s prestigious and (financially) beneficial, but avoid the actual classification when it comes with industry standards of behaviour.
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by nrmitchi 4mo ago
This may be true (I'm sure it is, but I haven't verified) but the large majority of people do not know this, which is why hearing "my retirement account is going to be forced to by a bunch of spacex at a $2.5T valuation&quo
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by nrmitchi 4mo ago
Until prices hit the large hyperscalers, I don't think most people are going to make significant changes. You might see a small set of open source projects related to self hosting put in an effort, but in general, I don't think so
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by nrmitchi 4mo ago
I may be lambasted for saying this, but I do not believe that Fox (or any large media company, really) should be permitted to purchase direct access to the TV hardware of roughly 30-50% of american households.
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by nrmitchi 4mo ago
In one of the most impactful and pivotal eras of new-technology-regulation, it is terrible that the most inept group of people possible are the ones making regulatory decisions.
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by nrmitchi 4mo ago
You're right and that is the issue, but I do want to point out that IIRC for ITAR purposes, US permanent residents are considered US nationals. US vocabulary is confusing.
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by nrmitchi 4mo ago
No, I mean I was using fable (or, trying) and got an api error "Error: claude-opus-4-8[1m] is temporarily unavailable"
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by nrmitchi 4mo ago
I don't know how fast they reacted, but shortly after their documented time I started getting opus availability errors from fable requests, which seemed odd. I'd also think that they would transparently degrade, just to prevent pr

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