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> "Infer?" Watch the demo video and see it happen.

I didn't know what you were talking about at first because I didn't remember seeing any video on the blogpost. If there had been video showing this happen, it would definitely be a good argument against it being inference! Instead, as best as I can infer, you mean the video on the home page and I watched the first ~1min where a photographer takes a photo and they didn't do any more fiddling than I have ever seen someone do with an iPhone and the couple having their photo taken didn't look uncomfortable at all! So not only is this not a video, afaict since I didn't watch the whole 5mins, of this particular set of photos being taken which means the inference made by the OP is very much so an inference but also I don't even think it shows an example of what they purported.

> That's why I said it doesn't surprise me no one in any of these samples wears a genuine smile.

Also, looks like you logged into your throwaway for this reply so now you've linked throwanem <> bdamm together.

> The iPhone photo of the golf players is better than the "photographer" shot in every way that actually matters; the guys are more comfortable and they have natural smiles, whereas the other photo is full of grimaces and frowns. Why that might be is hard to guess, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with the photographer forcing them to stand there and hold a pose while they fiddled with their weird little machine.

What an odd thing to infer. Just a really large leap.

The provider knows you have given those privileges _at some point_ but it doesn't know if that account still exists or anything about the state of the account.

So, yes, they could do more to highlight _potential_ accounts but it's not the case that they have any visibility into the actual state of accounts.

The problem is that at that point in the flow, it's owned by the SSO provider. The SSO provider can't know with certainty what account has an active account with the website.

> Which startup LLMs do you know of / recommend?

I don't for anyone doing serious work. Use the Gemini family, O3 and Claude if you want to gsd. The DoD made the correct call IMO. Kimi K2 is also potentially interesting for non-defense purposes but I haven't spent enough time with it yet.

> My fund will never be $1B but that’s fine :)

It's "trivially easy" for you and 10% of your investments are expected to have "massive breakthroughs". Your strategy of "give money to good companies and founders" should easily enable you to reach $1B AUM!

You're right! I had forgotten about SWE-1 family

It's easy when you know 90% of them already. If I didn't know it, I made that clear in the post.

Looking forward to hearing about your billion dollar VC fund.

OpenAI - DoD invested in them and now I guess you agree with it!

Anthropic - same as above

xAI - same as above

CoreWeave - Doesn't make LLMs

Glean - Doesn't make LLMs (wow this startup investing thing might be harder than for you than you thought!)

Perplexity - Has finetuned LLama models AFAIK. Maybe you think Meta should've gotten the nod from DoD as well?

PlayAI - AFAIK only voices

Cohere - Not sure if they are LLama or otherwise

Cyera - Doesn't make LLMs

Replit - Doesn't make LLMs

Windsurf - Doesn't make LLMs

Mistral - Does make LLMs, you got one! Is French, though.

Anysphere - They make an IDE called Cursor

Scale - Doesn't make LLMs, basically a Meta subsidiary (you really must have wanted Meta to get the nod too!)

Harvey - Legal focus, not general

Thinking Machines - Mira Murati's company, just started 5mos ago, no public products. Definitely don't fit your definition of "has revenue"

helsing - Hadn't heard of them, are German.

Cluely - LOL

Suno - If the DoD gets into music generation this would be a great choice.

Clay - Don't know them, doubt they have LLMs.

Crunchbase - lol is correct

Lubega Geoffery - No idea

Caris LIfe Sciences - Life sciences doesn't sound right!

C3 AI - Scam

Runway - Media generation, not general use

LangChain - Doesn't make LLMs

Rigetti Computing - Dude, come on. They're a quantum computing company

Cowbell - Don't know them, but a google shows they're an insurance company lol

Almost all the rest don't even have anything to do with AI. So all-in-all, nearly a complete failure at suggesting even close to 20 alternatives for the DoD to invest in. Your answer didn't even hit US companies that do have some alternatives: Meta, MSFT, AMZN, SSI maybe?

Who are the companies? List some!

Which AI company _should_ the DoD purchase from?

"Corruption is when the US government pays the 4 leading American AI producers for the use of their products"

Who are those 20 companies? What would $10M do in the context of training LLMs that are competitive with Claude/O3/Gemini?

> That's 10 solutions instead of 1 -- statistically one of them will be a massive breakthrough?

The statistic is that 10% of startups make a massive breakthrough? Would love to see some work that comes remotely close to replicating that! Startup investing would be trivially easy.

No one requires you to use APFS for your external storage!

Can you give a simple description of what the antitrust case would be?

This is at least why Claude is dead: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/kn7mvrgb0c8m

Also spotify isn't working for me so I assume that's also related.

These are my most important productivity resources! Sad!

A rational theory of spite suggests that even if they know that it will be worse for them too, if the level of their spite is great enough, they are still better off because the joy of the suffering of others is greater than their own induced suffering.

> If the other oligarchs seem to be doing nothing, it is not because they have no power to wield.

Good grief, this is just an axiomatic belief, then. No evidence will sway you one way or another.

> I am kind of surprised that the collection of people at the tops of all the big companies commanding so many billions, don't have some sort of behind the scenes levers they can pull to make him squeal like a pig, elected office or no.

The "US is an oligarchy, the corporations are in control" was always a false narrative.

Trump has literally been prattling about his love of tariffs for decades and was explicit about his plans to heavily leverage tariffs during his campaign..

I think you might just want an excuse to believe what you already believe

I was always able to cancel very easily. I’ve done so many X free months of Uber One and it’s been so much easier than cancelling any number of other subscriptions (NYT has still been my worst experience on that front). I’m surprised to see that as a complaint tbh.

I had not had almost any issues with reliability until recently and suddenly I'm getting transient UI and server issues on a daily basis. Not happy with it.

Even worse is I bought a yearly subscription from a deal they offered. However, now that reliability will be going down, I'm feeling a bit scammed!

> The whale is a fish thing isn't what I had in mind, iirc that's a solid argument that still mostly holds up.

You're also of the opinion that whales are fish?

Many of the factual errors are there on purpose. The lengthy discussion of whether or not whales are fish for example is not intended to be scientific.

Melville himself served on a whaler and AFAIK the descriptions of actual whaling and processing of whales at sea are basically accurate with some embellishment. Open to being wrong about that though as I am by no means an 1800s whaling expert.

Anyone who has read Moby Dick knows that this passage:

> And since whaling technology had come along so much since the 19th century - with powerful diesel engined vessels equipped with ever more lethal harpoons and even onboard processing plants, allowing sailors to drain the spermaceti out of their catches at sea rather than having to bring them back to land - sperm whale populations were ravaged long, long after the discovery of kerosene.

contains a distinct factual error. The whalers were processing their catch at sea even in the 1800s. Probably not as efficiently, but still they were not dragging their catch back to land for processing.

It's clear you're incapable of making a substantive contribution to the discussion, so why bother posting at all?

> Do you really want to ruin the life of a person that ruins your entertainment?

They're not ruining my entertainment, I don't play any such online game. Even still, poisoning any element of trust in society should default make you a pariah. This is no different from anyone else who purposefully breaks the social contract in any other context for their own gains.

> Bypassing a good anticheat was and still is a good way to obtain a ton of reverse engineering and software security-related knowledge.

Getting into street fights with strangers is a good way to obtain a ton of self-defense related knowledge. I still think that's no excuse for someone to get into street fights with strangers. There are plenty of other ways to gain similar knowledge that don't require poisoning the community well.

> Cheating is another question, though.

??? How do you think you figure out how to bypass the good anti-cheat???

> Because that would be a simple solution to all societies ills

No it wouldn't and I don't lament its absence as such.

> and it's obvious the world does not work this way.

Agreed which is my lamentation.

> And unless you're suggest banning all anonymous communication under an alias you quickly see ideas like this don't work.

I'm very clearly not, but even given the case that all communication around this moves to anonymous is itself fine. The impact of people understanding that they would be pariahs for developing such tools is itself a good deterrent. That social deterrents do not work with perfect 100% efficacy is not an argument against their usage.

This literally looks like spyware to me. Crazy.

How does this differ from the reference Github MCP server?

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr...

EDIT: Oh wait, lol, I looked closer and it seems that the difference is that the server runs on your server instead which is like the single most insane thing I can think of someone choosing to do when the reference Github MCP server exists.

My meta-comment is that it's a really sad state of affairs that we don't as a society have an immune system that makes it so that an individual who posts openly about creating software whose sole (and even if not "sole" then certainly intended) purpose is to enable others to deceive and cheat their way to "success" is made a pariah.