> I'm sure many of us would have made the same mistake. From the reporting and commenting on this incident, that is not the impression I'm getting. This wasn't one bad call after getting half way down the runway, this…
That the issue of slavery has weak explanatory power for what is happening today.
Just go back to 4.8. Opus 5 was a regression in every way I've noticed every time I have tried to use it.
There is not one mention of data centers in the article, and I highly doubt anyone is trying to put any significant computing capacity in SF.
Roomba was not competitive in the market, no amount of Amazon market manipulation would have changed that. Best case scenario, Amazon would have invested in making it competitive. Worst case, their engineers would have…
Some of Evergrande's financial practices were somewhat ponzi-scheme-ish (new sales funded construction of previous buyers), and the US has imprisoned a few such schemers too.
None of this is specific to GitHub. The exact same problems will sometimes happen any time users and developers communicate, which is a basic requirement of developing useful software. I doubt GitHub issues are worse…
Based on my personal experience and general observation, it seems like companies are both slow to hire, and slow to fire. So, paradoxically, both actions seem like they should signal "this company is going to be better…
If that's really all it takes, then it is not much of a moat.
I don't know what timeframe we are talking about here, but 1 million gallons is how much 33 people in the US use in a year. It's really not that much water.
They shouldn't be. But the point is, they are. OpenAI and Anthropic are paying many rights holders for access to their data (reddit, NYT, etc.). So distillation, among other things, allows Chinese labs to indirectly…
> Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received on average three to eight times more subsidies than competitors in OECD economies. https://www.oecd.org/en/blogs/2026/06/industrial-subsidies-h...
Disclosing private repos against the owner's intent is a much more immediate and significant business risk than violating the license of open source code. Maybe that shouldn't be the case, but it is.
Israel can fly aircraft over their adversaries at will. Russia can't.
Other than nukes, Russia does not have significant spare capacity. They use missiles and drones with months of their production. They fly bomber aircraft as close to the front as they can. They've burned through most of…
I would think that the shipping executives are less willing to take the risk to run the strait than the crews are. Being stuck for months with very little freedom, uncertain future, uncertain supplies, missiles and…
I can see how something like this happens. We're talking about a 5 year old kid seeing something at school, and describing it to their parents. Who knows what the kid said? Then you have situations like the young kid…
I don't think that craziness was baked into the model, it was in the prompt they used. So, easy to fix once they realized how stupid it was.
> For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, firearms manufacturers seem to think they're entitled to instead stomp their feet and say "no, no regulation, you have to let me do whatever I want!". Who exactly is the…
It's a strategy to make their competition lose, but it's not a strategy to win.
Even if you think this this is what OpenAI is doing, they surely don't think that. So why would he write that in his diary?
I don't think Waymo needs to dominate the market to succeed. They just need to scale up (time)x(number of vehicles) enough to amortize the R&D costs of the self driving capability. Paying a driver is a big chunk of a…
If this guy was still just a guy on a mailing list and otherwise living a private life, this article would be inappropriate to publish IMO. However, he's a significant public figure in the Bitcoin world (apparently).…
The idea is great in the same way the idea of a perpetual motion machine is great: I'd love to have a perpetual motion machine (or C++ modules), but it's just not realistic. IMO, the modules standard should have aimed…
It really doesn't matter as long as someone is living in it.
> I'm sure many of us would have made the same mistake. From the reporting and commenting on this incident, that is not the impression I'm getting. This wasn't one bad call after getting half way down the runway, this…
That the issue of slavery has weak explanatory power for what is happening today.
Just go back to 4.8. Opus 5 was a regression in every way I've noticed every time I have tried to use it.
There is not one mention of data centers in the article, and I highly doubt anyone is trying to put any significant computing capacity in SF.
Roomba was not competitive in the market, no amount of Amazon market manipulation would have changed that. Best case scenario, Amazon would have invested in making it competitive. Worst case, their engineers would have…
Some of Evergrande's financial practices were somewhat ponzi-scheme-ish (new sales funded construction of previous buyers), and the US has imprisoned a few such schemers too.
None of this is specific to GitHub. The exact same problems will sometimes happen any time users and developers communicate, which is a basic requirement of developing useful software. I doubt GitHub issues are worse…
Based on my personal experience and general observation, it seems like companies are both slow to hire, and slow to fire. So, paradoxically, both actions seem like they should signal "this company is going to be better…
If that's really all it takes, then it is not much of a moat.
I don't know what timeframe we are talking about here, but 1 million gallons is how much 33 people in the US use in a year. It's really not that much water.
They shouldn't be. But the point is, they are. OpenAI and Anthropic are paying many rights holders for access to their data (reddit, NYT, etc.). So distillation, among other things, allows Chinese labs to indirectly…
> Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received on average three to eight times more subsidies than competitors in OECD economies. https://www.oecd.org/en/blogs/2026/06/industrial-subsidies-h...
Disclosing private repos against the owner's intent is a much more immediate and significant business risk than violating the license of open source code. Maybe that shouldn't be the case, but it is.
Israel can fly aircraft over their adversaries at will. Russia can't.
Other than nukes, Russia does not have significant spare capacity. They use missiles and drones with months of their production. They fly bomber aircraft as close to the front as they can. They've burned through most of…
I would think that the shipping executives are less willing to take the risk to run the strait than the crews are. Being stuck for months with very little freedom, uncertain future, uncertain supplies, missiles and…
I can see how something like this happens. We're talking about a 5 year old kid seeing something at school, and describing it to their parents. Who knows what the kid said? Then you have situations like the young kid…
I don't think that craziness was baked into the model, it was in the prompt they used. So, easy to fix once they realized how stupid it was.
> For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, firearms manufacturers seem to think they're entitled to instead stomp their feet and say "no, no regulation, you have to let me do whatever I want!". Who exactly is the…
It's a strategy to make their competition lose, but it's not a strategy to win.
Even if you think this this is what OpenAI is doing, they surely don't think that. So why would he write that in his diary?
I don't think Waymo needs to dominate the market to succeed. They just need to scale up (time)x(number of vehicles) enough to amortize the R&D costs of the self driving capability. Paying a driver is a big chunk of a…
If this guy was still just a guy on a mailing list and otherwise living a private life, this article would be inappropriate to publish IMO. However, he's a significant public figure in the Bitcoin world (apparently).…
The idea is great in the same way the idea of a perpetual motion machine is great: I'd love to have a perpetual motion machine (or C++ modules), but it's just not realistic. IMO, the modules standard should have aimed…
It really doesn't matter as long as someone is living in it.