Normal people should be able to read 3 pages of text without having a melt down.

10-20 years ago, I’d fully agree.

Unfortunately, the normal people largely got replaced by 3 year olds that are >5ft tall and look like adults.

If Usain bolt claimed he would run 75mph, does him being the fastest runner change the fact that he lied?

If he was the fastest runner, won a the races and had all the world records, I don’t think failing to meet his aspirational goal of 75 would be important.

Boasting you're a year or two from something that is biologically implausible makes a person's proclamations in other fields inherently untrustworthy.

That said, a few seconds of cold gas thrust is more "cybertruck" bad than "theranos" bad.

Lol, aspirational goals. What other goal posts would you like to move?

I interpret that as they lose people all the time, but if you come into the ER with 10 bullet holes in you or after coming to a grinding halt on the freeway after a head on collision, they don't expect you to make it and it's not the sleepy drugs at fault.

Here's a thing humans do: They knew what they meant, but saw an amusing way it could be parsed, and said that, because it's amusing. We all knew what the comment really meant.

There's actually a few ways it could have been meant, or it could have been meant to convey all of them. We all have a pretty good idea in the general sense what they meant, but that amusing reply is also an invitation for the person to elaborate and add nuance.

Not even Windows hibernates or suspends reliably. Apple seems to be the only vendor that can get this right.

I've been using hibernate on Windows for the last... 15 years? And I don't remember ever having a problem. Lenovo and HP laptops.

It is easier to verify that there are no problems on Apple hardware. Windows and Linux run the same for me, you need good hardware to run well. Usabiltity and taste is a different question.

They provided the hardware it runs on, created the software for the swarm, developed and provided the tools that the swarm used to act, allowed it to run largely unsupervised, they even noticed the criminal behavior and then let it continue to commit crimes on their behalf. And they footed the bill the whole time instead of flipping the off switch they already wield. All of those are decisions that they're responsible for, nothing happened with Huggingface that they didn't directly facilitate, co-conspire, or permit to happen.

"they even noticed the criminal behavior and then let it continue to commit crimes on their behalf"

I don't believe this part is true, and I'm skeptical of some of your other claims.

In any case: If I raise a tiger in my backyard, and it escapes and eats someone, it can still be a "rogue tiger" even as I bear responsibility for the situation.

Were they held at gunpoint? Who else would be responsible besides the people in charge and who wielded full control?

If your tiger had full remote supervision capability and a remote kill switch, its ability to go rogue seems like a choice you’re making, not an accident.

There are things like magnetic stimulation of the brain, but there's no EM-field equivalent to Propofol.

We've had public reports of space based weapons usage this month. The environment is changing.

Perhaps this is placing a bet that Kessler syndrome is a real threat to surveillance capabilities and they want these in case the satellites go down.

You absolutely do have to deal with this in your untyped language otherwise you're just letting edge cases and runtime errors happen. The syntax will be different, it will have to happen at runtime instead of compile time, the chosen wording and language to represent the concepts and the work may even vary, but you are not exempt.

The supply chain thing was just an embarassing attempt at politicking by a laughably useless Hegseth.

My understanding is that Anthropic doesn't really have a lot of say in the matter of keeping their models out of government hands. The government can do pretty much anything they want with a domestic company in the name of national security. They might first choose to be polite about it with an open request and payment, then they might choose to infiltrate and extract by any means necessary (the NSA has a literal army of hackers on hand to point at the task) and Anthropic may not even know about it leaking, either way they do what they want and serve a national security letter to silence the event.

Ultimately they can just offer something Dario can't refuse. Every one of these "oops, our models are just so powerful our agents hacked something by mistake" PR fluff pieces is admission to federal crimes and they are leverage they're giving the government to exert control over them. Refusal means prison.

Local is becoming ever increasingly scarce and cost prohibitive. It's kind of bleak out there right now. A minimum bar to entry for decent local AI (something that can run a 27B tier model with some reasonable context) is going to set you back a year or five worth of AI API token costs.

That's true, but assumes that saving money is the only reason to go local (or that someone doesn't already have the hardware to do it – a Mac with 64gb can run most 27B models). By using a local LLM, you can guarantee that your data stays private; that your workflow always works for you and won't randomly change or stop working at the whims of an upstream provider; and that you can evolve your tools or swap in new models whenever you want, without some weird Effective Altruist culter in SF writing a dissertation on the model's supposed mood first.