Someone is going to try and kill you with a drone swarm, so no matter how detestable you find it, I think it’s good that there’s people that are thinking of ways to stop that.

Most of the problems seem defense oriented

That's how they try to frame them to make you feel less ethically dissonant.

It is absolutely true that there are people out in the world who would love it if we had no defense. You can argue (validly) that we have made a lot of poor choices, but it’s definitely defense.

It's both.

Completely agreed.

Ooh, it's the same thing I'm building.

I feel like US is ridiculously hard on even low grade drugs. Half of my high school would have gone to prison in the US.

Sending a 14 year old convicted of drug crimes anywhere but a location that will help them is bizarre. Sending them to a max security anything leaves me speechless.

Yeah I feel like there's less discussion than I expected of how many different things had to be done utterly ass backwards wrong by society for this guy to have his downward spiral in the first place.

I think whole generations are constantly discovering that the client is really, really fast.

Opus 4.8 and gpt constantly hallucinate stuff as well. If you haven’t encountered or caught it that’s something different. Of course these days it’s mostly confidently asserting a wrong thing.

They said that they hadn't "suffered" from hallucinations in months due to effort they put into harness engineering. It's not quite the same thing as saying hallucinations are never happening for them.

I find hallucinations happen for us with those models, but we've worked on baking in guardrails and fact checking against sources of truth, so that it's less of a problem.

We're engineers. We just try to engineer out the failure modes.

I primarily use Opus for a Lisp-like DSL codebase (non public, closed source) and it genuinely has _never_ hallucinated. All it pulls from is BNF, language spec + examples. So I have no idea how people are getting it to hallucinate on _popular_ languages.

I think you forget that they really are stochastic (I'd wager it has hallucinated things to you that wasn't important so you missed it, or you've just been very lucky), and the people you're arguing with are forgetting that there is significant difference in when and how often even frontier LLMs hallucinate. I catch claude every now and then, but isn't the measured hallucination rates down in low single digit percent for claude now?

I agree. Most startups just aren’t interested in solving a problem only 30 people in the world have. I wonder why?

I think this is true to some extent. On the other hand, the Jewish community in the US and the (unconditional) support it leadership gives Israel is a large reason any of this is possible.

Saying you weren’t directly involved is only an excuse up to a point.

This kind of generalization is exactly the issue though. There is no singular “Jewish community” in the us. Every single temple or congregation is independent, there is no central authority. You saying that there is unconditional support is just a different degree of yelling at random Jews in the street. Every one of my Jewish family members and friends is horrified by Gaza and the AIPAC/GOP collaboration and speaks against it. So the support is not “unconditional” as you posit.

Why aren’t we anti-war Jews the “Jewish community”? Lumping us all together as “unconditional” supporters of Israel and any supporter of Zionism as a supporter of the apartheid state is exactly the problem. It is definitionally racism to say that my behavior or viewpoint is a function of my heritage. So please stop.

What exactly am I supposed to do? Of course I’m not involved. I’ve never been to Israel. I don’t support their war aims. I don’t associate with any Jews or Jewish organizations who really do. Your last sentence is akin to saying that random Muslims can only claim not to be responsible for 9/11 up to a point. It’s reductive, stupid and racist.

Thanks for writing this. It's frustrating to see political-based bigotry be condoned and platformed by mainstream political and media figures. Like seeing the criminal Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul, and Chuck Schumer marching with Bezalel Smotrich and Amichay Eliyahu in the "Israel Day" NYC parade... it reminds me of the 1939 Nazi rally @ MSG or the 1925 KKK DC march. Every ethno-religious supremacist organization and national regime is inherently repugnant to human decency and desecrates the trauma and cost paid by and memories of previous generations to free us from tyrannical oppression by terrible ideologies where one group believes they are superior and another group are animals.

> Why aren’t we anti-war Jews the “Jewish community”?

I'm not blaming you individually for that, just like I don't blame Russians individually for the invasion of Ukraine, but to say that they have no power to stop it as a whole feels a bit like individual Germans claiming they didn't know what was happening in the camps and had no power to stop it anyway.

Really has little to do with faith, except that one of the nations involved is built on faith. As an American or Israeli your country is complicit in genocide. It's your responsibility as a nation to elect people that don't do that.

I find this very hard to believe. I find it much easier to believe a throwaway account was made specifically to spread some form of zionist propaganda.

Ok, fine. Bomb is bomb, I get that. But how is “Free Palestine, F Zionists” a reason to call the FBI?