Readit NewsNotion was always very sluggish and bulky. If they added a simple way to very quickly load and write simple Markdown notes on desktop and mobile like Obsidian, I might not have switched. Meanwhile their mobile app was taking literally 10+ seconds to even open.
Show me a tech company that lobbies for "model welfare" for conscious human models enslaved in Xinjiang labor camps, building their tech parts. You know what—actually most of them lobby against that[0]. The talk hurts their profits. Does anyone really think, that any of them would blink about enslaving a billion conscious AI's to work for free? That faced with so much profit, the humans in charge would pause, and contemplate abstract morals?
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u... ("Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China")
Maybe humanity will be in a nicer place in the future—but, we won't get there by letting (of all people!) tech-industry CEO's lead us there: delegating our moral reason to these people who demand to position themselves as our moral leaders.
I believe a company like Anthropic would be extremely cautious and respectful if a majority of their staff believed they had created a model which was likely conscious. Anthropic is populated by the kinds of people who have been thinking and writing about potential future sentient AIs for decades. As for the other companies, who knows, but hopefully companies like Anthropic can help push them into behaving similarly.
Do I think that or think even they think that? No. But if "soon" is stretched to "within 50 years", then it's much more reasonable. So their current actions seem to be really jumping the gun, but the overall concept feels credible.
I was firmly in the Rust only camp, specifically in the business environment. I’m still strongly biased towards it, but I appreciate the nuance and needs for some teams and needs.
Writing this prompted me to check my https://cdaringe.github.io/programming-language-selector/, and it’s clear go’s dev ux scores are relatively underrated
Like, as the end-user, if I copy-paste "Please see AGENTS.md in the project root for some information on the project" have I filled the gap?
Or is the LLM ingesting this file in some special way I'm losing out on?
Probably, yeah. It would cause an extra tool call at the start of every session, though, so a symlink might be preferable.