So…what was the leading cause of cancer deaths for age < 50 before now?

I imagine that if they can't even stop the hail of missiles on tanker ships, they certainly can't take over the strait.

It means nothing because it's the ramblings of an old man who talks a whole lot of shit he can't deliver on.

That's easy. A geek's superpower is his brain, and his identity is being the smartest guy in the room. Belief in conspiracies means you know something that the masses do not, and you were too smart for the man to get one over on you. These beliefs, like all beliefs, are simple acts of ego preservation.

How about this instead: if you have a new account, a certain number of downvotes from old/high karma accounts will ban the account, not just kill the comment. This gives moderation power to those who have shown themselves to be high value/long term contributors.

Just an aside - I love that he's using The Mind's Eye (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167285/), which is a video that really captured my imagination when I was young (along with Beyond the Mind's Eye) and changed the course of my life as it got me into 3D animation at a young age.

What do we think are the chances that the government is attempting to destroy Anthropic’s value so they can buy it for pennies on the dollar?

High! Look at Intel…

Yeah this is the exact kind of ridiculousness I've noticed as well - everything that comes out of an LLM is optimized to give you what you want to hear, not what's correct.

Four of the biggest OSes (iOS, macOS, Android, and Chrome OS) are made in California by the companies who pushed this legislation through. Never going to happen.

I agree partially, but I think there might be a ton of connections in the training data that aren't obvious to humans. And being a word prediction engine is all about making those connections.