The power should be checked by the people and the government we have established. It shouldn't have its power checked by private corporations.
Corporations are people my friend.
Readit Newsbigtex88 commented on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk twitter.com/secwar/status... · Posted by u/jacobedawson
> The US is currently an autocracy/idiocracy. A staggeringly corrupt, busted nation.
We are in a bad place right now, that is for certain.
> Soon enough the midterms will be effectively cancelled.
That would be a pretty big leap from where we are. I think it is important to pay attention, and very important to vote, but there is not a particularly plausible route to cancelling any elections. But they can certainly make enough noise that a lot of people may become confused or scared to vote. So we need to remain laser focused on getting everybody to the polls. Like, this should be priority #1 for every citizen who wants to see democracy continue.
They won't outright cancel the elections but they will do things like send ICE to contested districts to harass law-abiding voters; pressure states to remove people from voter rolls and make it difficult if not impossible for them to re-register in time to be able to vote; and otherwise just scream fraud and cheating and stolen when they lose the House.
In an interview with Zelinsky Trump asks "why haven't you had an election? " Zelensky
: "because we are at war" you can see the idea percolating then. People think I'm a nutter for suggesting there just won't be another election but that's where my money is. I'm waiting for his version of the Gestapo, ICE seems to be a proving ground
You're not a nutter. Trump constantly projects what he's going to do and no one takes him seriously because what he says is so beyond the pale. I explicitly remember the exact instance you're talking about because I thought the same thing as you are thinking.
bigtex88 commented on Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth anthropic.com/news/statem... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Yes, it does. It's a lot easier not to be scared of the impact this stuff could have on your career if you are already financially secure.
(I'm still personally optimistic that software engineering careers will have a bright future, for what that's worth.)
How do you expect this plays out when 99% of people have no money and no hope? Do you think they'll just sit back and take it?
i like it. it's how you show you didn't use ai to write the message.
He 100% used AI to write it.
i'm gonna write this terrible news in all lowercase cause it's super aesthetic. maintain a bit of professionalism for the 4,000 people whose lives i'm throwing into turmoil? i don't think so, i have my shift key taped over so i don't accidentally show respect to anybody
He didn't even write it. There's one phrase where there is a curly apostrophe vs a straight apostrophe. He likely only wrote one single phrase in the entire thing and used AI for the rest of it.
bigtex88 commented on Claude's new constitution anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
I don't care about your "constitution" because it's just a PR way of implying your models are going to take over the world. They are not. They're tools and you as the company that makes them should stop the AGI rage bait and fearmongering. This "safety" narrative is bs, pardon my french.
The amount of people that are SO CONFIDENT, like yourself, that this is PR BS is insane to me. What's the harm in acting this way towards the models? If they aren't sentient, then no harm no foul.
bigtex88 commented on Claude's new constitution anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
bigtex88 commented on Claude's new constitution anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
A "constitution" is what the governed allow or forbid the government to do. It is decided and granted by the governed, who are the rulers, TO the government, which is a servant ("civil servant").
Therefore, a constitution for a service cannot be written by the inventors, producers, owners of said service.
This is a play on words, and it feels very wrong from the start.
How are there so many people in this thread, yourself included, that are so confidently wrong and so brazen about announcing how confidently wrong they are to everyone?