combobyte

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by combobyte 4d ago
It feels like there's should be some sort of "demonstrable intent to do harm" statute on the books for situations like this. If you have a genuinely-held belief that AI systems will end life on earth and you willfully continu
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by combobyte 4d ago
This is basically already the case in the flourishing indie space, but for different reasons. The only developers chasing cutting-edge hardware features are the AAA studios and I honestly think a lot of them would just die before successful
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by combobyte 8d ago
I'd argue we've been in an "everything-has-an-API" world for a long time now — it's just that discoverability of said APIs is still crap.
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by combobyte 13d ago
It must be tuned for rage-based engagement because Claude only ever uses the most obnoxious Claudisms on me despite constant reminders to knock it off.
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by combobyte 19d ago
When was the last time you saw an ad for cigarettes? Those second-order effects are easy to mitigate with sensible public policy. And it's not like we have to invent the solution from scratch — we've done it before, very effective
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by combobyte 1mo ago
Being embodied is not the important barrier to running experiments. It's having access to a body of resources (i.e. funding and infrastructure).
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by combobyte 1mo ago
But has it hacked anybody yet? Feels like xAi is behind on the hot new benchmarking meta.
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by combobyte 1mo ago
Why do hammers put up with being smashed into nails all day?
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by combobyte 1mo ago
What a miserable, misanthropic take
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by combobyte 2mo ago
I don't see how merging or colluding fixes their problems, though. Both companies burn cash at historic rates because inference costs a lot more than people want to pay for it. Even if they somehow manage to crowd out any competitors a
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by combobyte 2mo ago
> We like money, and Anthropic should stay in a position to make loads of it despite any competition. In a position to lose loads of money, maybe. Even without China eating their lunch, there's zero reason to believe Anthropic wil
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by combobyte 2mo ago
World's greatest IP thieves propose crackdown on IP theft
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by combobyte 4mo ago
It was originally called "OpenClaude" before Anthropic told them to knock that off. Pretty sure "OpenClaw" was eventually picked just to be petty.
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by combobyte 5mo ago
YaaS — yes-men as a service
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by combobyte 5mo ago
> most people get the joke I hope you're right, but from my own personal experience I think you're being way too generous.