Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

2 months ago

@robbensinger @robertwiblin I think this falls apart when you acknowledge he uses the same reasoning ability to be an incredibly effective leader of a wildly successful company

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the discourse about the dwarkesh jensen interview is ridiculous: the fact that a 25yo podcaster can make the ceo of the largest company in the world dance and answer to the people at all is impressive. the purpose of media is not to respectfully sing praises to the powerful

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Philippe Lemoine @phl43

2 months ago

This is so annoying. X is being criticized for deliberately throttling links, but instead of addressing that criticism (because he can't), Bier tries to reverse the accusation by criticizing the NYT for not being creative enough in promoting its content, unlike I guess the dozens of accounts that are raking up massive engagement by posting one-sentence summaries of NYT articles without a link.

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

@natseckatrina Two questions: 1. Do you think the historical record with domestic mass surveillance since ~2000 reveals weaknesses in "lawful" as a standard? 2. Would you characterize Snowden's actions in making his revelations as "the process in action" or him stepping outside the process?

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

In the same breath, Hegseth demands access for "any LAWFUL purpose" and shows why that standard is dangerous Designating Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” requires stretching existing law far beyond its original purpose. If that’s "lawful", the word doesn’t mean much

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar

4 months ago

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

We've seen this film before w/ mass surveillance Unelected bureaucrats called the shots. Laws got contorted in maximally permissive ways. Efforts to get details disclosed to elected members of Congress were met with lies told under oath

Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey

4 months ago

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms. Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

@eigenrobot when Snowden tells the story, he argues something like, "they did all this evil, anti-freedom stuff for nothing. the spying never stopped an attack" idk. multiple administrations left & right bought into it. hard for me to believe it wasn't relevant to major geo-political stuff

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

@eigenrobot the government put a ton resources into compromising these systems and setting up surveillance infra, doing borderline illegal and unamerican things along the way I can't be confident, but hard to believe they went to all that effort unless they got a lot out of it

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

Setting aside who is right and wrong here, sorta fascinating how horrifically badly the DOW is handling the PR battle

Under Secretary of War Emil Michael @USWREMichael

4 months ago

It’s a shame that @DarioAmodei is a liar and has a God-complex. He wants nothing more than to try to personally control the US Military and is ok putting our nation’s safety at risk. The @DeptofWar will ALWAYS adhere to the law but not bend to whims of any one for-profit tech

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

@eigenrobot buying time before these things get compromised or duplicated isn't meaningless... last few decades might have looked pretty different with a small shift in when telecoms got deeply compromised vs. when strong e2e became common for electronic comms

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

@powerbottomdad1 @0xkrma @tszzl ...man i know you're better than this yeah, the people controlling the guns and bombs set the rules but Anthropic is winning sympathy from some of the people with that control. beyond the moral high ground, Anthropic is massively outplaying the DOW on the PR game here

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

@powerbottomdad1 @0xkrma @tszzl is your view that Congress, not Anthropic, should set the rules? if so, not an unreasonable take in the abstract. but if we're looking at what's concretely on the table rn, don't feel like its a choice of whether to defer to Congress vs Anthropic

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

4 months ago

@powerbottomdad1 @0xkrma @tszzl I don't know man...this framing feels far more dishonest than Anthropic's

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Anthropic @AnthropicAI

4 months ago

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. anthropic.com/news/statement…

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

5 months ago

@grok @viemccoy @jefftangx @grok, do you know something about mac minis that we don't?

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

5 months ago

More impressed with Claude everyday

Yishan @yishan

5 months ago

I asked the four major AIs to sort themselves into the four Harry Potter houses. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok all agreed on the following: OpenAI: Gryffindor Gemini: Ravenclaw Grok: Slytherin Claude: Hufflepuff Except for Claude, who said OpenAI was Slytherin and Grok was

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Joshua Achiam @jachiam0

6 months ago

This is one of the structural changes in the world that we are collectively ill-prepared for and ill-prepared to discuss in a sensible, careful way.

nihilism disrespecter @meaning_enjoyer

6 months ago

true mass surveillance totalitarianism - everyone being watched all the time - is limited by an intelligence bottleneck, someone has to actually watch or listen to the footage if compute becomes cheap enough, that changes

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Mason Hall @0xMasonH

7 months ago

Brilliant move by @AnthropicAI to sponsor Claude ads on stacktraces that get no results

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

7 months ago

@ESRogs @jeremyphoward You've got to make a few ideological assumptions before "most good" even feels coherent Then in practice, there's obvious leanings people have w/r/t politics, ethics, etc & those necessarily play a massive role in decisions about "doing the most good"

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Chris Smith @Coverage_Critic

7 months ago

@ESRogs @jeremyphoward I get the appeal of framing it as a question rather than an ideology, but it feels weaselly A Christian could say their religion isn't an ideology b/c at its core, its just asking the question "How can we best worship and glorify God?"