Taxes generally do not promise good living standards for everyone. Usually they come with promises of public infrastructure, some kind of safety net, and some other benefits. How did wealth taxes work out for Austria,…
We've seen what happens when people decide to confiscate wealth with promises of good living standards for everyone. It has never delivered on those promises, always lowered median living standards, and usually led to…
"it's forcing Elon to give up some of his share of Tesla [...] But that's a choice the owner makes." That probably seemed more coherent before you put it into words.
At this point, it will probably not stop them, just slow them down, but it will strangle other companies in the crib. How much do you plan to tax the new multimillionaire janitors at those companies? If government…
He doesn't have a markedly more lavish lifestyle than the hundred-millionaires, but I don't want to live in a country where the government takes stuff that it (or some majority) decides the current owners don't need,…
Most people in the US would be delighted to have over $200k of gross income, much less after paying for taxes and housing. Your argument seems to suggest that those developers should also be very happy with their…
"Closer" in what sense? Does Elon Musk have a markedly more lavish lifestyle than them? Is his retirement safer? How many politicians are campaigning on investigating, regulating and prosecuting the…
Existing taxes are mostly on income, not wealth, and the US has one of the most progressive income tax systems in the world. Confiscating some fraction of Tesla and SpaceX will destroy lots of economic productivity for…
They could be A/B testing model tweaks, and use it as feedback that way. It feels dishonest to give paying customers an opt-out for training on their data and then sneak copies by asking for general feedback without a…
Apple laptops historically included a power supply. Now some models don't, and you have to buy it as a separate item. I appreciate the frustration, but as a separate item then a user can choose any power supply on the…
Taking the benchmarks (as reported by OpenAI) at face value, why wouldn't they show Opus 5.5 on the OS world benchmark, and show no Anthropic models at all on the "factual error rate" benchmark
The fraction is markedly different when one includes compensation in the forms of retirement contributions, insurance and the employer part of payroll taxes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A4002E1A156NBEA
I don't think that is quite right. I had a book about computer graphics using OpenGL from before then, and I remember it saying (something like) that various polygons were supported at the API layer, but the GL…
I'm not sure, but "This post is about how we got there.\nA GPU fills triangles and nothing else." is very Claude-ish. So does "[I created] one commit per idea, and timed every commit on those same 3.7 million polygons,…
If someone is looking for that particular piece of paper, they probably want it for reasons that distinguish it from the average piece of paper. Also, most defensive gun uses end without shots being fired, so "usually"…
$72B of Anthropic's loss was on the paper value of financial instruments, though. Their operating loss, including non-recurring engineering/development costs, was under $9B. That's still not great, given $16B in revenue…
> An implementation must be a third party product that is using a product provided by the DeepSeek corporate entity. That is not clear at all. Are open weights a "product"? The discussion of mobile app vulnerabilities…
Yes, the legal language is important. That's why it would have helped a lot if the order either defined "DeepSeek implementations" or said "DeepSeek products or services" in place of "DeepSeek implementations". The…
Sure, but that size/token is inherent to the model. Part of DeepSeek's hosting advantage, and thus a remaining part of their moat, is migrating KV cache from VRAM to host RAM to nonvolatile storage, and presumably…
> "implementations" means third party software that purchases and uses products directly from DeepSeek. That's not obvious to me, and quoting a part of the order about affiliated entities doesn't explain it. It would be…
My reading of the comment was that the "we" who have entered an adversarial world means the entire world, and the "we" who know models can be backdoored means people who have been paying attention to published research…
I was going to suggest something in that vein, perhaps "a giant boulder the size of a large boulder" to distinguish it from its Coloradan cousin.
In a third list of three things, Claude mentioned that this program does not link an HTTP stack. Good to know, I guess, but how can we evaluate it against Zawinski's law without knowing whether it can read or send email?
Not OP, but I typically ask it to report status of whatever is running; it can run a background task that reports to it every N minutes. With Claude Code in VS Code and a Pro subscription, it seems like the one-hour…
The process to generate these was opaque, so there was some concern that the values might have been backdoored somehow like Dual_EC_DRBG was; we didn't even have confidence that they were generated from a PRNG rather…
Taxes generally do not promise good living standards for everyone. Usually they come with promises of public infrastructure, some kind of safety net, and some other benefits. How did wealth taxes work out for Austria,…
We've seen what happens when people decide to confiscate wealth with promises of good living standards for everyone. It has never delivered on those promises, always lowered median living standards, and usually led to…
"it's forcing Elon to give up some of his share of Tesla [...] But that's a choice the owner makes." That probably seemed more coherent before you put it into words.
At this point, it will probably not stop them, just slow them down, but it will strangle other companies in the crib. How much do you plan to tax the new multimillionaire janitors at those companies? If government…
He doesn't have a markedly more lavish lifestyle than the hundred-millionaires, but I don't want to live in a country where the government takes stuff that it (or some majority) decides the current owners don't need,…
Most people in the US would be delighted to have over $200k of gross income, much less after paying for taxes and housing. Your argument seems to suggest that those developers should also be very happy with their…
"Closer" in what sense? Does Elon Musk have a markedly more lavish lifestyle than them? Is his retirement safer? How many politicians are campaigning on investigating, regulating and prosecuting the…
Existing taxes are mostly on income, not wealth, and the US has one of the most progressive income tax systems in the world. Confiscating some fraction of Tesla and SpaceX will destroy lots of economic productivity for…
They could be A/B testing model tweaks, and use it as feedback that way. It feels dishonest to give paying customers an opt-out for training on their data and then sneak copies by asking for general feedback without a…
Apple laptops historically included a power supply. Now some models don't, and you have to buy it as a separate item. I appreciate the frustration, but as a separate item then a user can choose any power supply on the…
Taking the benchmarks (as reported by OpenAI) at face value, why wouldn't they show Opus 5.5 on the OS world benchmark, and show no Anthropic models at all on the "factual error rate" benchmark
The fraction is markedly different when one includes compensation in the forms of retirement contributions, insurance and the employer part of payroll taxes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A4002E1A156NBEA
I don't think that is quite right. I had a book about computer graphics using OpenGL from before then, and I remember it saying (something like) that various polygons were supported at the API layer, but the GL…
I'm not sure, but "This post is about how we got there.\nA GPU fills triangles and nothing else." is very Claude-ish. So does "[I created] one commit per idea, and timed every commit on those same 3.7 million polygons,…
If someone is looking for that particular piece of paper, they probably want it for reasons that distinguish it from the average piece of paper. Also, most defensive gun uses end without shots being fired, so "usually"…
$72B of Anthropic's loss was on the paper value of financial instruments, though. Their operating loss, including non-recurring engineering/development costs, was under $9B. That's still not great, given $16B in revenue…
> An implementation must be a third party product that is using a product provided by the DeepSeek corporate entity. That is not clear at all. Are open weights a "product"? The discussion of mobile app vulnerabilities…
Yes, the legal language is important. That's why it would have helped a lot if the order either defined "DeepSeek implementations" or said "DeepSeek products or services" in place of "DeepSeek implementations". The…
Sure, but that size/token is inherent to the model. Part of DeepSeek's hosting advantage, and thus a remaining part of their moat, is migrating KV cache from VRAM to host RAM to nonvolatile storage, and presumably…
> "implementations" means third party software that purchases and uses products directly from DeepSeek. That's not obvious to me, and quoting a part of the order about affiliated entities doesn't explain it. It would be…
My reading of the comment was that the "we" who have entered an adversarial world means the entire world, and the "we" who know models can be backdoored means people who have been paying attention to published research…
I was going to suggest something in that vein, perhaps "a giant boulder the size of a large boulder" to distinguish it from its Coloradan cousin.
In a third list of three things, Claude mentioned that this program does not link an HTTP stack. Good to know, I guess, but how can we evaluate it against Zawinski's law without knowing whether it can read or send email?
Not OP, but I typically ask it to report status of whatever is running; it can run a background task that reports to it every N minutes. With Claude Code in VS Code and a Pro subscription, it seems like the one-hour…
The process to generate these was opaque, so there was some concern that the values might have been backdoored somehow like Dual_EC_DRBG was; we didn't even have confidence that they were generated from a PRNG rather…