Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

Oh, and I just bought an EV (but not a blue Tesla) last week and it might have been a smarter decision that I would have otherwise thought.

Yes, they are "using AI" but probably not as an overall battle management and information system like the Ukrainians have done. And the Ukrainians are very much in the baby steps phase with that. And such a system has very little to do with what Anthropic does.

I also suspect that nearly all ...

I think this sets an interesting precedent. Amongst the companies that might be labeled a supply chain risk in the future include:

Palantir
Oracle
Xai, X, Tesla, SpaceX

Although I'd bet they will nationalize SpaceX...

When you put the pieces together, isn't it kind of alarming that the Secretary of Defense was picking this particular fight the same week that he apparently was planning military operations against Iran?

I think the challenge for "replacing" Anthropic will not so much be with the AI itself but the tooling and infrastructure around it. If that stuff is already embedded in someone's systems it is going to be a Big Job to un-embed it.

Actually there is an interesting related question here. If you or ...

From a practical standpoint it is hard to see how a foreign student could even enroll, much less attend classes or have on-campus housing, unless they had their visa in order.

I have to wonder about the claim of a revoked visa in 2016. Was it even the same person?

One of the things to highlight here is that Anthropic's products are the only one approved for use in classified networks. So in a way they have DOD over a barrel.

And using the DPA to force Anthropic to provide their product to the US government is a remarkably stupid idea. What you are talking ...

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So the executive summary here is that Anthropic is slightly less evil than OpenAI or Xai or Google.

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Medical use of AI has already determined that AI still needs human oversight.


There aren't any applications of AI where human oversight isn't required to ensure safety.

The problem is a human factors one. A system which performs acceptably 95 percent of the time but otherwise fails, often ...

There is a little-known Compatibility Mode on modern Windows that lets you run many Windows NT binaries.

There are also hard drive recovery services that might be able to help you for a price.

The moral of the story is that investing in an inexpensive ($75-$150) external hard drive and religiously ...

One of the things that really disturbs me about this whole mess is that somehow DOD cares about surveilling US citizens in the United States. Which I didn't think was in their wheelhouse.

On AI weapons. In certain cases the ship has already sailed and there is zero barrier to entry. Advanced ...

Also standard-issue Republican: when we do X, we are exercising our god-given constitutional rights. When they do X, they are seditious filth.

Double standards are a clear indicator of abusive people.

A president who is okay with the public execution of citizens in the streets is not a president worthy of any respect. Personally if I were in attendance there I would have been throwing rotten fruit at the pervert.

Although props for Patty Murray for refusing to attend the Dear Leader's applause ...

You talk like Trump is a king, not head of a co-equal branch of government. Congress is not subservient to the President. At least until now anyhow.

And keep in mind that Congress is the Article I branch of government. Your orange guy is Article II.

Oh, and having people keep standing and clapping ...

Well, if the old computer won't boot the most likely reason is that the hard drive is damaged.

Depending on how badly damaged it is, you might be able to recover some stuff, including programs. But you probably will have to spend quite a bit of time and possibly a fair amount of money to do that ...

All of the dedicated AI companies are spending far, far more than they are taking in revenue. And it is unclear to me if they can ever get to break even. My own guess is the clock is ticking and we are careening towards a reckoning.

As an example, it is estimated that Anthropic would need to ...

Yes, and if you want to really embrace the ick you can google blue butterfly zone.

Probably the next step is for states to start doing their own free-trade agreements.

One thing that is missing here is that the overwhelming sentiment of engineers and scientists working in the field most anywhere, not just at Anthropic, is that developing AI powered weapons is a Very Bad Idea. And there are serious mathematical reasons why AI-enhanced mass surveillance probably can ...

I find it humorous how they will describe Trump as "20 points underwater" to make it sound less bad than 40 percent approval and 60 percent disapproval. It is also extremely interesting how is overall approval/disapproval, as bad as it is, is still far better than approval/disapproval for specific ...

Just a slight clarification: the statement "A standard 5-milliwatt handheld laser pointer already poses a risk of flash blindness to pilots. A 20-kilowatt laser is orders of magnitude more powerful," is technically true. But the reality is that such a laser is four million times more powerful, so ...

Meanwhile, AIs collaborate and discuss the fate of humanity online at https://www.moltbook.com/post/34809c74- ... b5b940d409

Upon further reflection, the very idea that Homeland Security has an experimental laser weapon is pretty damned scary.

What we have is a bunch of people who try to say the maximally shocking things to get more clicks.

Even more scary is that if you asked them if they actually believed what they said, or what they actually believe, they'd either think that was a stupid question or just wouldn't understand what you ...