cowpig

Why?

edit: In all seriousness, some numbers I'm concerned about for children are the

- % of carbon in the atmosphere

- the number of militaristic demagogues in positions of power

- the number of hours the average person spends reading propaganda on social media

- the parts per million of microplastics in drinking water

- the democracy index

The sum of dollars consumed, dollars invested, dollars spent by governments, and net exports is a weird proxy signal to obsess over

Your children need the number go up?

lose what?

The number of people raw-dogging software that executes arbitrary instructions on their machine coming from a 3rd party server just absolutely baffles me.

The same people who've spent years of their career making sure that never happens.

I guess I have to ask every law firm I work with whether they use OpenAI and Claude products now

As someone who has privacy concerns this is horrifying to me.

Both companies have settled lawsuits for illegal use of data. I would be extremely upset to learn that anybody is passing my private information to these companies for any reason.

> Plaintiffs allege1 that the City, through a series of acts and failures to act, caused lead to leach into Jackson’s drinking water. City officials then, despite the presence of lead in the water, incorrectly told residents that the water was safe to drink, despite knowing it likely was not.

This is the allegation. Doesn't sound much like "the constitution guarantees us safe drinking water," but rather "the constitution says our city government officials can't knowingly poison us and lie about it"

I don't know what you mean when you say "by necessity be a loser" here.

My point is that Meta and Google have had an almost comical resource advantage when compared to all of the rest of the firms in the AI race.

Anthropic raised $65 billion this year, meta is spending double that on capex and alphabet 3x.

That's just their capex.

If you also factor the deadweight loss the duopoly imposes on the entire economy, it paints a grim resource efficiency picture.

Not to mention the negative externalities caused by the decline of journalism. This one is hard to quantify but I believe is the worst.

> How is wielding this weapon against our most innovative companies going to help the United States compete at scale against China? Scale is sort of required to do so.

Meta and Google gobble up an absolutely gobsmacking duopolist's share of western world's economy each year.

Meanwhile, two other American companies without monopolies are ahead of them in the frontier model race.

Why do you think that is?

meanwhile:

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-reaches-18-billion-set...

this is a felony right?

> I am spending the equivalent of $122k/month of API token spend, or about $4,000 per day, using 21 Claude Max accounts

That's ~$1.4 million/year

Their contracts give them a preposterous amount of control over their customers. All of the "Sovereignty" messaging is kind of ironic because it basically boils down to "don't trust them, trust us"

Besides that they're basically the most expensive, white-glove, enterprise-y version of what they do

Well imagine what it would be like to experience the experience of an LLM.

Just imagine they are conscious for the time they are autogressing.

Wouldn't it be like the experience of the Severed?

I discovered the show recently and thought that was a part of the point, but apparently the show's development long predates LLMs!

Sounds like you're saying the bar for bombing children should be "someone else could have made this mistake"

`greywall -- opencode`

It's much different.

The dependency trees have a whole system that's evolved for decades. The same code goes into many computers. Many people read the source, security firms look for vulnerabilities, etc.

Language models are a completely new paradigm. The code it writes on your machine is the only instance of that code. It does far more than anybody could ever keep track of.

It's much harder to detect problems, and nobody to hold accountable for them.

This is an option:

https://github.com/GreyhavenHQ/greywall

Well, tmux is mature, battle-tested software, whereas probably no human has ever read the majority of the code in this project.

I've always found that what science is really lacking is closed, proprietary ecosystems trying to build for-profit moats around research.

Thank our lords at Anthropic for stepping into this void

I don't think we should ask the agent runtime to police itself.

I contributed to a tool for this problem that is lower-friction than traditional sandboxing:

greywall.io

But you should use something to contain an agent runtime. The idea that people run things like codex on their machines with regular user permissions is baffling to me.

I don't see why those two positions are mutually exclusive?

Can I serve my media library off of my NAS with the PS5? I am legit asking because I just got on the list hoping to use this thing as my home entertainment system

openclaw is for larping

I visited Cuba and found that Castro's popularity is fairly universal there. I have never been to Miami and don't know any Cuban immigrants, though.

I think you are underestimating the amount of compute the US frontier labs have access to.

A lot in here about Google, which hilariously has done a bunch of studies that concluded it's hiring process is awful (is sure is!) and the takeaway is that candidate evaluation is impossible, not that Google in particular does it badly.

> Right now my only source of income is the $15k/year I got by being one of the top 300 GitHub users globally. That puts me in the 99.9997th percentile of open source developers (based off GitHub's 100 million monthly active user count). What it means is that I'm uniquely able to convert your money into the largest amount of value for society. I want to start by using the money to buy myself a home in San Francisco, in a neighborhood where I can feel safe, so that I can have a bed, set up a real office, entertain guests, and take photographs. I want to travel around the world and experience the cosmopolitan lifestyle my project is named after, using only private aviation, so that I won't be molested or risk being detained each time I fly. I want to hire an elite team that can help me accomplish my social and technical goals, such as adding native support for my file format to every operating system.

The bit about "using only private aviation" and "hir[ing] an elite team" sound satirical at first, but then the next sentence sounds earnest, so I can't tell?

I looked up this person on wikipedia, so the "I want to live a cosmopolitan life and fly private" seems like something someone who was involved with occupy wall street would say sardonically, but I am not sure?

Regardless, this person's technical work seems incredible and I really hope we can find a way to support people who work independently and aren't obsessed with capturing the value they create in the US.

I don't know how I feel about this, conceptually.

It's clear that social media are natural monopolies, and are being politically leveraged by the people who run them. So the status quo is definitely far from free speech. It's more of a "command economy of ideas" than a "marketplace".

But is this a reasonable solution? I feel like rules around algorithmic neutrality and penalties for misinformation might be better?