noelsusman

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by noelsusman 5d ago
It's nice to think there was some sort of plan, but the truth is much scarier.
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by noelsusman 13d ago
The overwhelming majority of things I buy are things I've bought before. Alexa having access to my Amazon order history means I can just say "order a new water filter for my fridge" and the correct item shows up the next day.
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by noelsusman 2mo ago
Retirees relying on short term equity returns to cover expenses only have themselves to blame.
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by noelsusman 3mo ago
It's just a fact that Claude has already been used to commit war crimes and Anthropic has had zero issue with it. I don't know what else there is to say about it. Also, not that it really matters but building a fully autonomous ki
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by noelsusman 3mo ago
I didn't say or even imply that OpenAI and Anthropic are equally bad on this front. It's just not accurate to say Anthropic has issues with the US military using Claude to commit war crimes. They don't.
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by noelsusman 3mo ago
Anthropic is perfectly fine with the US government using Claude to commit war crimes. The US military has done hundreds of extra-judicial killings in the waters around South America over the last year and Anthropic hasn't had anything
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by noelsusman 3mo ago
Just goes to show how desperate they are for compute. It's definitely a brand risk for them, but failing to keep the treadmill going is an existential risk.
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by noelsusman 3mo ago
They removed him due to fear of reprisal from the federal government. How could that have nothing to do with free speech?
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
Not entirely sure what your point is, but if you're implying that kids don't use "chat" to refer to any LLM (usually ChatGPT) then that's very wrong. It doesn't have anything to do with the usage of "chat&
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
Very few 401ks offer the NASDAQ 100 as an investment option. Last I checked it was <1%.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
I think Framework would disagree that their target market consists solely of people ideologically opposed to owning Apple hardware.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
This is simultaneously incredibly condescending and hopelessly naive. Politicians understand perfectly well that a 1% wealth tax is not a small tax on wealthy individuals. That's the whole point. They are engaging in basic political rh
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
That's fine but not really relevant to my point. Saying you can't even imagine how people could have an issue with somebody taking other people's work and distributing it for free is pretty baffling.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
If you genuinely can't imagine how anyone would object to somebody taking other people's creative output and distributing it for free against their wishes then you probably need to work on your imagination a little bit.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
Am I missing the joke here... they have hundreds of millions of repos.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
>Unless you're thinking Alibaba is going to ship chat logs to some government ministry that will then dole out proprietary information to new competitors (which doesn't seem logistically feasible) That's exactly the fear,
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
I don't know why a user should care at all about parameter counts. All that matters is performance and cost.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
The Artificial Analysis benchmark results are pretty underwhelming. Roughly the same "intelligence" as MiMo-V2.5-Pro for over 3x the cost. We'll have to see how that translates to actual usage but it's not a great sign.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
Vibe coding a Rust rewrite of a widely used tool is basically catnip for the HN crowd.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
The notion that this GOP Oversight Committee sincerely cares about corruption is obviously laughable, so I can only assume this is all being done at Elon's behest.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
...ya'll are still doing this?
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
There's no such thing as merit-based hiring.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
I guess I don't understand how this logic doesn't apply to human developers.
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by noelsusman 4mo ago
I am once again asking privacy advocates to try sounding normal for once. Trying to make a browser accessing your timezone sound nefarious isn't going to convince anyone of anything.
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by noelsusman 5mo ago
China, famous for never putting ideology over policy.
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by noelsusman 5mo ago
It's mostly just a bad model. Plenty of people would be willing to overlook the baggage if the model was even marginally better than the competition.
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by noelsusman 5mo ago
In my experience Anthropic positions itself as the "safe" AI company more than the "ethical" AI company. They're related but not the same thing. The only way you could be surprised that Anthropic wants to be in bed
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by noelsusman 5mo ago
In that scenario the President would invoke the Defense Production Act to compel the oil company to supply the oil. They threatened to use that power against Anthropic, though it's unclear how it applies to something like AI. "Cla
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by noelsusman 5mo ago
Secularism in the US began rising steadily in 1990 and has actually been declining since 2020. That trend doesn't line up well with any of the data we're talking about.
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by noelsusman 5mo ago
I've had hundreds of AI-powered vendor tools come across my desk as part of my job, and I have yet to see a single one that uses Grok. I'm also not aware of any publicly announced customers for Grok's enterprise offering. The

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