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How is this a debate? Anthropic's AI was used in military/defense operations. When Anthropic discovered this and disclosed it publicly, they attempted to revoke access and went after the government demanding it not get used in such a way. This would be a supply chain risk to any government.

If Lockheed Martin disabled weapons systems when it discovered the Air Force using its fighters over Iranian airspace based on Lockheed's ideological views, I'm pretty sure they would be labeled a supply chain risk at minimum. What is the issue here?


The government canceling that specific contract with Anthropic is fine. It is too vast a scope to deny Anthropic to work with any other companies who also happen to be defense contractors. Lockheed Martin for example cannot be sure now if it won't be sued if some employee uses Anthropic for help with accounting or anything unrelated to defense.


Correct, from the government's perspective, anthropic is a risk to the supply chain and should not be included in sensitive government contracts.


Thats too vast a scope. Whats not to say they start enforcing bans on Anthropic in any branch or usage of Anthropic of your company if your company has entered into a defense contract with the government for something?


they should ban it, defense contractors shouldn't be using it XD.

fable 5.1 doesn't have any option to stop anthropic spying on it. you can't have that...anthropic contractors and actually the rationalist ea clowns themselves don't have security clearance


Just saying so doesn't mean shit. The US government should ban you then because I deem you a risk and a terrorist threat.


i say it, but you can confirm it yourself.

not even AWS govcloud can offer fable without anthropic snooping. it is the only model with this problem.

the pentagon can't force suppliers to require no snooping policies unless they designate the company a risk.

other than those suppliers who are already working on classified projects and can't have dario write an essay on his blog about 'pace the f35' or 'missiles of loving grace. the adolescence of classified satellites.'


Is that why he's so mad at their rulings all the time?


They aren't yet ready to fully fall down in line and some of the judges are not trumpies.


If every engineer is 10-100x more productive with AI, and one company slashes its workforce to maintain the same level of productivity at reduced cost, it will lose out to its competitor who retains the same workforce and does far more with it.

Right now, the vibe at my company is not “we can save so much money with AI” it’s “here’s an infinite budget, use all the tokens you can to expand our moat because we’ve never been more sensitive to competitive disruption than we are now”


Competitor won't retain the same workforce if the demand doesn't match the output.


I’m still not sure what your point regarding hey.com is, and certainly no big website in 1999 resembled it.

But to your other comment, are you professionally employed as a developer and still writing code by hand?


Turbotax.


Yep. I have crazy tax. I'm glad I don't have to do it myself.

Also - lowkey legal documents.


I've had these AI things also help out with my US taxes. Has held up to review as well.


yes! I've had it even help me with looking and buying homes. I ended up catching things in a contract that would have screwed me over. there's so many use cases outside of software


A lot of us in America have no sales tax (if that’s what you mean by VAT) and those that do have it at a fraction of EU VAT rates.


> A lot of us in America have no sales tax

Not that many of us, actually. Only Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, and some parts of Delaware and Alaska have no sales tax. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sales_tax_by_county....


I'm sure plenty of Idahoans and Washingtonians, for instance, take advantage of their neighbor status for high ticket items like this...


Except that you then have to pay a "use tax" of 6%:

https://tax.idaho.gov/taxes/sales-use/use-tax/online-guide/

This is difficult to enforce, but it seems that "taking advantage" is strictly speaking just tax fraud.


We're all just one or two paychecks away from smoking fentanyl, screaming at random people, and masturbating on public transit.


But you do. You're a tech lead at Stripe and your CEO is a founding contributor to this foundation. This is what you fund with your labor.

And if you weren't afraid of people coming to their own conclusion about DHH you could just link to his blog[1] rather than some literal marxist's opinions about his blog. Why not be intellectually honest and curious enough to state what someone says and point out what you disagree with directly rather than mimetically echo someone else's outrage?

[1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh


Well what does native mean? An XWindow? Native on gnome is different from native on kde or xfce or lxde…


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