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It removes a convenience that was sometimes abused (see the top post) and makes it harder to bypass US law to get a visa.

This doesn’t prevent the bug from being introduced but can remove a huge amount of complexity for test cases that are hard to set up.

I think that pinning your entire view of a model forever on a single incident is not a reasonable approach, but you do you.

$200M for one fighter plane is insane.

If the USA ever had to go to war with this weapon, a huge number of them would be offline at any given time, and every single airframe loss would cause a huge dent in overall combat power.

I don’t understand why our military and political leaders keep trying to buy ridiculously overpriced Swiss Army knife weapons (lots of flexibility but great at nothing) instead of mass producing combat knives (only good for one thing but great at it and lots of them).

The only places I can find on the web that connect Andreessen or Thiel to Yarvin are mid- to far-left web sites.

I am not claiming that the guy is or isn’t a kook- the article certainly makes him sound like one but I have 0 familiarity or corroborating sources that don’t share a political motivation for demonizing the guy.

I am also not making any assertion about past or present affiliation or shared political values between Thiel or Andreesen, and Yarvin. Again, I have no independent information.

So overall I just don’t care and don’t see that this establishes any sort of pattern or is anything other than a hit piece.

It doesn’t belong here on HN IMO.

I also think that the same capability will largely invalidate the GPL, as people point agents at GPL software and write new software that performs the same function as OSS with more permissive licenses.

My reasoning is this: the reason that people use OSS versions of software that has restrictive licensing terms, is because it’s not worth the effort to them to rewrite.

Corporations certainly, but also individuals, will be able to use similar approaches to what these people used, and in a day or two come back to a mostly-functional (but buggy) new software package that does most of what the original did, but now you have a brand new software that you control completely and you are not beholden to or restricted by anyone.

Next time someone tries to pull an ElasticSearch license trick on AWS, AWS will just point one or a thousand agents at the source and get a brand new workalike in a week written in their language du jour, and have it fully functional in a couple of months.

Doesn’t circumvent patent or trademark issues but it’ll be hard to assert that it’s not a new work, esp. if it’s in an entirely different language.

Just something I’ve been thinking about recently, that LLM agents change the game when it comes to software licensing.

That is pretty awesome and not something I would have expected from an agent; it hints (but does not prove) that it has some awareness of its own workings.

Brains are continuous - they don’t stop after processing one set of inputs, until a new set of inputs arrives.

Brains continuously feed back on themselves. In essence they never leave training mode although physical changes like myelination optimize the brain for different stages of life.

Brains have been trained by millions of generations of evolution, and we accelerate additional training during early life. LLMs are trained on much larger corpuses of information and then expected to stay static for the rest of their operational life; modulo fine tuning.

Brains continuously manage context; most available input is filtered heavily by specific networks designed for preprocessing.

I think that there is some merit that part of achieving AGI might involve a systems approach, but I think AGI will likely involve an architectural change to how models work.

Also, if you sign up for Anthropic’s feedback program you get a 30% reduction on API usage.

It’s not an advertisement; I apologize if I come off as a Claude Code fanboy.

If you read part 1 of my post (linked in my OP) you will see that I disclosed exactly how much I paid for my usage, and also the reasons that I ended up choosing Claude Code over other agents.

https://apnews.com/general-news-2fbcce48372f5c29c3ae6f6f9390...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/biden-terminates-bo...

The article’s author was very imprecise, defining love and morality in subjective terms relating to one’s personal outlook and perceptions of others.

I’m not at all interested in subjective morality.

The reason most philosophers have defined morality and ethics in terms of duties and obligations is precisely to try to remove subjectivity. I’m not saying anyone has been successful, but other approaches don’t appear to lead towards objective morality.

The computer has to figure out whether the word is in the dictionary, but it also has to figure out a suggestion for what to change it to.

And even after just that, we already have a bug- homonym mistakes- homonyms are in the dictionary but they’re misspelled (that was intentional btw).

How misspelled is another problem. We’ve had Levenshtein et al algorithms for a long time, but how different can you get? A really badly misspelled word might not have any good replacement candidates within your edit distance limit.

There are also optimizations like frequently mistyped words (acn-> can), acronyms, etc.

It was never just about size.

Then he proceeds to shoot all the police in the leg.

Today being imprecise with language to smear one’s political opponents is in fashion; a lot of talk about “empire” and “regime” etc. is just propaganda.

The fall of a government will leave a power vacuum and people will rush to fill it; violence might be part of the fall but will almost certainly be part of the competition to be the replacement. We have dozens of examples in the last hundred years.

During all those times, people have to live their lives; things go on pretty much as normal for most people not involved in the struggle for power. However there are disruptions to utilities and financial systems; many people lose their life savings and sometimes feeding people is hard, let alone doing business like manufacturing.

The only thing that is “apocalyptic” about the fall of a government and its replacement with a new one, is when the new government is full of radical ideologues that use the force of government, and ultimately violence, against their political opponents, such as in the Russian Revolution, the Nazi rise to power, and Mao’s rise to power.

This is not a foregone conclusion; we didn’t see intentional mass starvation or genocide in Iran, for example, although there were thousands of executions as the new regime purged its opponents.

I don’t claim to understand all the intricacies but it is the relevant term of art when discussing this topic from a legal perspective.

Anything of value that survived your death- property, money, IP rights, etc. now are part of an estate which is administered and distributed according to your will and/or state law. Other than your state’s law and your will, it’s not up to you what happens to your stuff after you die.

Artifacts of your existence that you did not own, like your extended family’s home movies or that time TV news caught you in the background or your friends’ photos, don’t belong to you (never did) so I’m not sure you can do anything about that, and it poses an interesting question of whether your likeness could be reconstructed from artifacts that are not part of your estate.

It would probably be worth having a law that says that your likeness is part of your estate, and then it can be covered by estate law.

Of course right now you could probably sign a contract giving rights to use of your likeness, and have terms and conditions that would cover post-death scenarios ; I have heard that some celebrities are already entering into such contracts for money.

I’m trying to imagine the Venn diagram of “developers adopting agentic coding” and “developers who use emacs as their IDE”.

Of course I’m going to get swarmed with anecdotes, but my intuition is that there’s just not a lot of overlap.