Your starting point is that people won’t read code, and you expect them to read someone’s llm session from git?

Another LLM will read it of course.

I’m seriously contemplating blocking the news completely. It’s not like me being informed has any influence anyway, now that belief can be manufactured to such an extent. Might as well lower my blood pressure.

Skip the technical blocking step and internalize the fact that it is pretty much all irrelevant to your (average person’s) day to day life. Ideally, then even knowing it won’t affect your blood pressure. And the fact is, do you even have reason to believe the claims are true?

I am commenting in this thread to pass time, but I assume there is a such a high chance the linked article is not true, or at least has a hidden agenda, such that it should be ignored or treated as entertainment. Could be product placement, could be completely manufactured rage-bait, who knows, and more importantly, I have no reason to care.

Yup. I’m super social and extroverted, in the sense that I love meeting new people and if I’m introduced to anyone I make connections easily. But I can’t in a million years be the one breaking the ice.

This is in big part due to being born and raised in a large European capital. There’s unwritten barriers you respect as a social rule, and if someone breaks the rule you assume they’re trying to sell something or scam you. To me talking to a stranger unprompted feels as out of place as pulling my pants down in public.

It’s natural for these barriers to exist to make dense spaces liveable, but they do constrain you.

How's claude for non coding tasks? For example using it as a google substitute for trivial questions, like a recipe or a phone review.

Genuinely asking, because I might follow your steps.

Claude cannot search Reddit so it is dreadful for search cases.

Not including Reddit probably boosts its IQ 25 points.

yeah it can? i use it to search reddit all the time.

It's been very good for me. I don't even open claude.ai or or use Kagi Assistant even though I'm paying for it and have access to basically all the models. I interact pretty much exclusively via Claude Code. My recipe question turned into a recipe tracking project and recommendation engine designed to help force me to try making new things that expand my skills. I've also had good luck getting gluten / dairy alternatives for recipes since that's now a fact of life I have to deal with via my wife.

For product reviews, you've definitely got to make sure it's searching for sources and not just relying on outdated data. Some brands used to be very good and are today just coasting on their reputation. This is where phrases like "research this deeply" help it break out of the baked in biases.

I use git. push to private repo, you can use a cron in your machine to push regularly and so on.

The only limitation comes if you use the vault in a closed system like iOS, where you can't run terminal commands. other than that, flawless.

I’ve just about got this working on ios using the a-shell app as a terminal to run the git commands, with shortcuts set to run them when Obsidian opens and closes.

Among other consequences, if Anthropic ends up being killed it’s going to be just another nail in the coffin of trust in America.

Companies who subscribed will find themselves without an important tool because the president went on a rant, and might wonder if it’s safe to depend on other American companies.

It is absolutely unsafe to depend upon American companies, and I can guarantee you that all over the world, people are actively looking for alternatives already. You never know what happens next, things that used to take years happen in a single Truth Social post now, and no matter how twisted your worst nightmare scenarios look, this ridiculous band of crooks in charge of the USA manages to one-up them.

When you put it like that, it makes me almost want to wish for Anthropic to die from this. But the blow to the field in general would be huge, and I benefit from their service as well.

>It's not only the US being special in this case.

It's the US being special in how there's zero good reasoning behind any of this. A private company made a choice and it's retaliating like a spurned date.

There is plenty of good reasoning executed badly from a PR perspective.

It is (now) called the Department of War for a reason: It needs to be able to kill people very fast and cheap. Autonomous weapons platforms do that: you give them a geofenced area and let them kill everything that moves in said area. No loss of human pilots, no fatigue.

If Anthropic they had any ethics concerns they would not have signed up the Pentagon as client in the first place.

My guess is that they wanted to have their cake and eat it too.

Anthropic will just move out of the US. A lot of scientists fled Nazi Germany in the early stages. A lot of them fled to USA and end up being part of the Manhattan project that gave the Abomb that helped US win and end the war. We are going to bleed a lot of AI researches and engineers.

USA can’t just deny the ability to leave if you are deemed to be important for national security?

But they could open up a branch in EU with some people (and their money), and then step by step employ the people from the US in EU, bleeding out the US entity on a long run: At least yet, no one can stop their top scientist to move to another country with the knowledge and just pick up their work in the new conutry.

>At least yet, no one can stop their top scientist to move to another country with the knowledge and just pick up their work in the new conutry.

They can and do do this routinely. Many individuals get marked and regularly go through additional screening if their travel plans raise flags. This isn't even unique to the US... most Western nations do the same. If there is a serious brain drain risk, the US government can easily go all out and have the whole company put on the no-fly list.

>At least yet, no one can stop their top scientist to move to another country

Let's hope so, because I am not so certain.

Oh come on. Saying “no” is not eroding trust, it’s taking a stand.

When the US banded human embryo research did that erode trust? I didn’t hear anything about that at the time.

Don't you know enforcing whats best for your citizens clearly erodes trust? Just keep selling off your future for short term gains! Anything else is heckin problematic :(

>Assume good faith.

This is more for “assume op is not a troll” rather than “assume Donald trump never took part on Epstein’s parties”.

I’ve never taken it to apply to anything other than the interaction with other commenters.

This whole saga is extremely depressing and dystopic.

Anthropic is holding firm on incredibly weak red lines. No mass surveillance for Americans, ok for everyone else, and ok to automatic war machines, just not fully unmanned until they can guarantee a certain quality.

This should be a laughably spineless position. But under this administration it is taken as an affront to the president and results in the government lashing out.

We live in a timeline where you don’t have to have strong morals to be crushed. If you have any morals, you will be crushed.

>It’s nuts that this type of financing is legal.

You need people to burn in house fires for regulation to require extinguishers.

We're going to be the next generation’s cautionary tale.

Particularly so when those foreign nationals can be consumers. “fuck your basic human rights, but we can take your money just fine”.

If nothing else, the USA has learned that a lot of people outside their borders do not share the same ideas on basic human rights, and most of the world hates when we try to ensure them. Some countries are closely aligned with our ideals and are treated differently. There are many different layers of this, from Australia to North Korea.