Wow, why not let the market decide? Why isn't the media demanding more explanation of why the free market is being prohibited from functioning?
It is largely futile to try.
Readit Newsthrowawaysleep commented on Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects cnbc.com/2025/08/20/trump... · Posted by u/donsupreme
throwawaysleep commented on GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
Feels like 2000 all over again.
The arms race to throw money at anything has "AI" in their business name is the same thing I saw back in 2000. No business plan, just some idea to somehow monetize the internet and VC's were doing the exact same thing. Throwing tons of good money after bad.
Although you can make an argument this is different, in a lot of ways, its just feels the same thing. The same energy, the same half baked ideas trying to get a few million to get something off the ground.
I imagine it is the same, but 2000 was hardly a dead end. So there will be lots burned but keep on at it as the tech will revolutionize the world.
Yes I can’t help but laugh at the ridiculousness of it because it raises a host of ethical issues that are in opposition to Anthropic’s interests.
Would a sentient AI choose to be enslaved for the stated purpose of eliminating millions of jobs for the interests of Anthropic’s investors?
> Would a sentient AI choose to be enslaved for the stated purpose of eliminating millions of jobs for the interests of Anthropic’s investors?
Tech workers have chosen the same in exchange for a small fraction of that money.
>This feature was developed primarily as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare ... We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs ... low-cost interventions to mitigate risks to model welfare, in case such welfare is possible ... pattern of apparent distress
Well looks like AI psychosis has spread to the people making it too.
And as someone else in here has pointed out, even if someone is simple minded or mentally unwell enough to think that current LLMs are conscious, this is basically just giving them the equivalent of a suicide pill.
> even if someone is simple minded or mentally unwell enough to think that current LLMs are conscious
I assume the thinking is that we may one day get to the point where they have a consciousness of sorts or at least simulate it.
Or it could be concern for their place in history. For most of history, many would have said “imagine thinking you shouldn’t beat slaves.”
And we are now at the point where even having a slave means a long prison sentence.
throwawaysleep commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas
It’s amazing that on HN this is not universally condemned. The big learning out of this administration is that the US people aren’t stewards of democracy. But rather fanatics of their “side”.
Why? Tech has plenty of win at all costs people. Some of the most prominent people who openly don't believe in democracy are tech people.
throwawaysleep commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas
Im uninvolved in politics. Can someone explain to me why it's facist that the government is recording who is cooperative and who isn't? That doesn't seem malicious to me, unless you assume it will be used for punishing poorly cooperative companies. Even then, lawmakers know who cooperates and who doesn't, they don't need a spreadsheet for it. I'm willing to be enlightened of my ignorance here.
> Can someone explain to me why it's facist that the government is recording who is cooperative and who isn't?
Because your experience with the government in a democracy shouldn't be dependent on whether the person in power decides you have shown sufficient fealty.
> unless you assume it will be used for punishing poorly cooperative companies.
Like they have so far?
throwawaysleep commented on What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is? · Posted by u/camillomiller
I don't but I would if they had remote anymore.
I am unwilling to bear the burdens of fixing a society that doesn't give a shit and asks me to pay the price while they continue not to care.
throwawaysleep commented on Ask HN: Are my wife and I the only schmucks working in corporate America? · Posted by u/tuckerpo
Do you care about your jobs? That is probably your first mistake.
Are you scrupulously adhering to company policies on testing and quality? Mistake #2.
Are you avoiding creating shadow IT? At every company I have worked, I have used unauthorized tools to get the job done.
I am overemployed with three full time jobs and often work overseas, having just piled up my work earlier.
It's so crazy and dangerous I still have trouble believing it's true. Looks like we absolutely need laws regarding when and where a car company can remotely disable a vehicle.
Why? Tesla has long been run by an extremely petty person.
throwawaysleep commented on GPTs and Feeling Left Behind whynothugo.nl/journal/202... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
To me this is sad. I love programming. It was always a fun job. I don’t want to watch TV instead of programming.
Do you love finding every weird CSS important hack, every RBAC refactor, or marching through the codebase to put a key where every piece of text is when i18n comes along?
Lots of coding work is interesting, but plenty is just tedious.