Every man should make speeches in his head as if he is Caesar speaking to the population.

Let’s don’t want to participate in this. Also the user experience is terrible. You must repeat 15 different ID verification steps across 15 different apps and devices 🤮

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They took Signal out after they threatened to leave the UK

A short history of how we got here, because the chronology is the whole story. January: the Pentagon demands unrestricted use of Claude for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. Anthropic says no. February: the President orders every federal agency to drop Anthropic. The Defense Secretary bans Pentagon contractors from doing business with them. A rival announces its classified-network deal within hours. March: the Pentagon designates an American company a "supply chain risk" under a statute written for foreign adversaries. A federal judge blocks it. May: the Pentagon signs AI deals with seven companies. Anthropic is not one of them. June 9: Anthropic releases Fable 5. June 12: Commerce issues an export control directive over a jailbreak that, by the government's own account, was demonstrated verbally, came with no written explanation, and involves a capability you can get from other publicly available models today. Two things are true at once. First: Anthropic spent months marketing Mythos as too dangerous to release. Sam Altman said it was "incredible marketing to say we have built a bomb." The Commerce Department has now formally agreed it is a bomb. If you describe your product as a munition in every press release, eventually a government takes you at your word. They wrote the legal predicate themselves and called it a brand. Second: we have run this experiment before. In the 90s the government classified encryption as a munition under ITAR. Activists defeated it by printing PGP's source code as a book, because books are protected speech and floppy disks were arms exports. A t-shirt with three lines of RSA Perl was legally a munition. The controls collapsed because math does not stop at customs. The new wrinkle is the "deemed export" rule: showing controlled technology to a foreign national inside the US counts as exporting it abroad. Which is why Anthropic's own foreign-national employees are now locked out of the model they built. The munition is in the building and the people who made it are not allowed to look at it. The jailbreak is the paperwork. The refusal was in January.

Do not apologise.

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I stopped explaining that datacenters use water in a closed loop. I just nod, purse my lips and say "yeah its really bad". What's the point

Is everything going to go down across the market and all the money moves into SpaceX, OpenAI and now Anthropic?

THIS GUY BOUGHT A $31 TOY DRONE AND TURNED CLAUDE OPUS 4.8 INTO ITS ENGINEER he plugged it into a laptop, explained the control logic in plain english and let Claude build the flight interface by the end of the session it had calibration, live controls and a browser cockpit moving the drone in real time most people will use Opus 4.8 to save 12 minutes on emails. he used it to turn cheap plastic into a working demo the crazy part isn’t the drone. it’s that the bottleneck moved from writing code to describing exactly what you want built while everyone debates benchmarks, someone with a $31 gadget and one afternoon is already shipping hardware demos

Damn expecting Arsenal to lose this shootout, the English have a terrible track record 😭😭

There are contracts for things in the uk where they’re tied to the annual inflation change, thus causing more inflation…it’s insane. If the free market is interfered with, we lose.

My best experience with AI so far: I've had a stomach thing for years and my doctors said they couldn't figure it out, so I researched it with ChatGPT. Over the course of a few days, the AI became convinced that while the symptoms I experience are really bad, it is probably one very specific condition (BAM) that's easily treated with a cheap prescription you take once a day to eliminates basically all the issues with 0 side effects. So I go to a new doctor and tell him what I suspect it is. He says "That only happens in people who have had their gallbladder removed", then asks me if I have. I haven't, so I said no. He then says "It's probably not that then", and tells me he won't let me have any medication until I have an investigative procedure to view things (for the second time, already did it once before). I just had the procedure today, and guess f***ing what he says when I wake up: "Well, you were right, it's BAM, we'll get it sorted out" I can't believe there are people out there who don't think AI is revolutionary, when it's *obviously* one of the greatest innovations in human history.