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I think you have a different understanding of what exactly a brand is than do most people. Every profession has the right to develop its own jargon that subtly redefines common words in its own way so I'm not going to say that you're wrong about what "brand" means in any absolute way, just that you're wrong to say that pg is wrong.

Fair enough - although I'd add in my defense that my take wasn't "Paul Graham is wrong", in fact I really liked the essay and agreed with a lot of it. It was more that I think there's a lot more going on with brands than the essay makes out (although you might disagree with this take too)

Is this the first time internal communications like this have leaked from Anthropic? It'll be unfortunate if Anthropic can't have honest conversations internally going forward for fear of leaks.

That means they're not conscious in the Global Workspace[1] sense but I think it would be going too far to say that that means they're not intelligent.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory


That might be true for the desktop, but RISC-V is wonderful from a pedagogical and research standpoint for academic uses and in the embedded world its license and "only pay for what you need" is also quite nice.

Yeah, the paper launch OP is talking about happened way back in May 2024.

Anthropic's whole worry with mass surveillance was that current law is too loose in the age of AI to offer enough restraint.

How confident are we, with OpenAI's recent very large contribution to Trump's PAC, that OpenAI wasn't working to get Anthropic designated a supply chain risk behind the scenes? I don't want to be too paranoid here but given Sam's reputation and cui bono I don't think we can really rule this out either.

Not just companies that we think of as defense contractors but a whole ton of corporations that do business with the federal government. They'd be treating Anthropic like it was controlled by the CCP or Revolutionary Guards.

The sunset and also fires. Humans have been making fires for a million years and in addition to allowing us to evolve much smaller guts they've also had time exert pressure on our behavior.


If you're the sort of person not to use a pre-packaged desktop environment, you can use mako as your notofication daemon and get the same effect by adding

  on-notify=exec play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga
or the equivalent to your config.


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