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bloppe··on Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter
Hypothetically, maybe. In practice, probably not.
bloppe··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Let's assume for the sake of argument that Anthropic has a monopoly over significantly superior models. They will never be a perfect gatekeeper. The number of black hat hackers with access they shouldn't have will be highly correlated with the total number with access, so to be "conservative" Anthropic would deny access to many white hat hackers who should have access (like my company, which runs cloud infra for hundreds of other companies but is nonetheless too small to be considered). It only takes a few bad apples to ruin the bunch, and once a black hatter has access, all the white hatters without would be exposed. At that point, it would be better for everyone to have access.

Luckily, Anthropic has no such monopoly, so the point is sorta moot

bloppe··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Every single one of those sentences is highly dubious. Cyber-defenders would be pretty jazzed about having easier access to Mythos-class models. Cyber-defense is easier with better tools.
bloppe··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
I'm saying I would do the same thing if I were Dario. I don't think he's evil. I just think his hero complex is annoying.
bloppe··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
"if I don't do it, someone worse will"

Of course that's what Dario thinks because that's what every tech CEO thinks. Dario, Sam, Sundar, probably many Chinese CEOs as well. It's what everyone thinks. That's why they're competing so fiercely with one another. That's why they basically make all the same decisions. That's why we need properly open source AI.

bloppe··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
I agree that Dario is pretty annoying, but I think the "tech villain" archetype is essentially survivorship bias. The tech leaders who don't act that way are not nearly as visible because they're not nearly as successful.
bloppe··on Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
You could also audit the JavaScript / Wasm that's running in your browser. In fact, a security-focused e2e application might want to purposely keep all client-side code un-minified and highly readable for this very purpose, but decompilers and LLMs could provide reasonable auditability regardless
bloppe··on I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone
It takes a lot of callous and privilege to have this kind of opinion
bloppe··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
If AfD, RN, Futuro Nazionale and their ilk stay on their current trajectory, the identity crisis will become much harder to ignore
bloppe··on Claude Sonnet 5
Idk why you're perceiving silence. Feels to me like this is the main thing people talk about nowadays.
bloppe··on Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
When you're announcing a new model, typically, nobody else has benchmarked it yet, because it hasn't been released yet. You can still run 3p benchmarks on it and publish those results. If other parties later run the same benchmarks independently, and find major discrepancies, that would be a scandal.
bloppe··on The last Romans are still around
There is far more human genetic diversity within Africa then there is in the rest of the world combined.

Also, your notion that certain people are inherently tied to certain places is only true if you accept arbitrary cutoffs for arrival time. The Lakota migrated from the Great lakes to the western planes in the 1700s, but it's hard to imagine them without their horses (which came from the old world) and bison (which they never would have hunted in ~Michigan). More time has passed since the arrival of the Spanish in Tenochtitlan, than between the arrival of the Aztecs (who probably migrated there from ~Arizona) and the Spanish. And of course, All the Native Americans descended from tribes that crossed the Bering straight from Russia, and every human's ancestors lived exclusively in Africa for a very long time. Anglo Saxons, Gaels, Norse, etc were constantly on the move within Europe before any of them crossed the Atlantic. Israelites displaced Canaanites before being displaced by Romans, then Arabs, then "coming back" after WW2. At any point in time, in any location on earth, the ethnic groups considered "native" almost certainly descended from people who were not considered native within at most a couple hundred years. Many white people can trace over 2 hundred years of ancestry in the new world. To say that's not enough to qualify as "native" is to have an incoherent conception of nativeness.

English doesn't help. I realize I myself used the term "Native American" while trying to argue that the term is out of date, but our language just was never equipped to describe these kinds of long term, highly chaotic processes.

bloppe··on Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
Anthropic always publishes 3p benchmarks every time they announce a new model
bloppe··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Pretty sure Chinese police will not cooperate with a US indictment
bloppe··on The last Romans are still around
Your clean-sounding taxonomic framework tends to be much, much messier in practice, but ok. As so often happens, I think this boils down to a vocab disagreement. Normally, you would refer to the ethnolinguistic group as "Latins". "Roman" is much more closely associated with the populus romanus, which was defined by citizenship.
bloppe··on The last Romans are still around
Ok, but the vast multitude of Native American tribes absolutely identified as distinct ethnicities from one another. If you were to apply this to the Romans, then "ethnically Roman" would include Greeks, Celts, Berbers, and dozens if not hundreds of other ethnic groups, each of which was represented in all the social strata of the Roman state at various times.
bloppe··on The last Romans are still around
For a much more convincing chronicle of people identifying as Roman well into the modern era, see https://open.spotify.com/episode/66SexoFR9AvdKaDzWaqR8w
bloppe··on The last Romans are still around
Also the vast majority of the rest of the vocabulary in those languages
bloppe··on The last Romans are still around
Rome was famously multi-ethnic. This is sort of like asking who are the "ethnic Americans". It's just the wrong question to ask.
bloppe··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
I'm very pro distillation. I think there needs to be distillation non profits who curate massive corpi of super high value training data from frontier models. They could have an "anonymous contribution" system where regular people with max subscriptions upload their conversation histories. It's a rough concept, but surely would be a huge boon to humanity.
bloppe··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
The equivocation is crawling website <-> crawling LLM responses.

Both Anthropic and Alibaba are trying to build bleeding edge LLMs. That part is the same. The way they source their data is slightly different, but they would both argue it constitutes fair use under Copyright law.

bloppe··on Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
I love trees, but I wonder where this legislation is headed. It sure sounds like it's creating the conditions for regulating trees on private land. This could have some perverse incentives. A tree on your land could become a liability. It could lower the value of your property, because you won't be able to sell it to someone who wants to build something that might interfere with that tree. Would that actually discourage people from planting trees in the first place?
bloppe··on Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
Feels like the primary concern was virtue signaling, with protecting trees being a close second
bloppe··on Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
I'm pro-tree, but I feel like you can protect them without sounding this ridiculous
bloppe··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
In a healthy market economy, entrepreneurs are meant to support the consumer, and they do so partly by competing with one another for talent, which requires supporting the employee. We could argue ad nauseam about the health of the US's market economy, but ultimately is has resulted in unignorably higher wages than in Europe, even at the lower end of the economic ladder.

This probably also has a lot to do with it's much tighter market integration than the EU, although they seem to be finally addressing that issue with the 28th regime.

A popular theory of Europe's historic economic outperformance relative to the rest of the world, leading up to the industrial revolution, relies on competitive market theory: constant warfare spurring innovation, as well as relatively free movement of the best and brightest to seek greener pastures elsewhere on the continent. These days, the most ambitious Europeans tend to move to America to raise money and find talent, and it seems many EU countries are finally waking up to the fact that they need to do better to support entrepreneurship.

bloppe··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
Unrealized capital gains taxes generally are a bit absurd, but I can see how the state would feel forced to do it if you're leaving. Seems like there should be some way to get a registered agent or something to keep the old company legally "in Germany" while you leave, but idk
bloppe··on AI's Affordability Crisis
What you want is already available on OpenRouter and a million other services, but sure, you can wait 18 months for it to be on GCP.
bloppe··on In praise of memcached
What are you using Celery for? Do you need to be able to recover from a reboot or crash with your queues intact? Is it a distributed system as opposed to a single machine? Do you have complex multi-step workflows?

If you answered no to each question, just `import Queue from queue`.

bloppe··on Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
https://x.com/AmrithRamkumar/status/2067059417678336455

This particular order wasn't actually about citizenship at all. It seems the administration simply believed restricting the order to non-citizens would make it easier to defend in court, but they made it knowing full well that the only way to implement it would be to completely shut off access for everyone.

bloppe··on The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety
I bet they will do a touch of RLHF and re-naming the moment OAI releases a comparable model. Otherwise, sure, they can just bask in the drama for a bit.
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