I recommend comparing what it rewrites to something that Gemini models output. I think there's still a lot that Anthropic could improve.

All Anthropic models write like that since Opus 4.8. Opus 4.8 was still tolerable.

Unfortunately only Gemini models can write text that isn't vomit-inducing.

Opus 5.5 doesn't write like this anymore

It has different awfulness.

I don't find it anywhere remotely as bad. I'm not saying it's good, but jesus.. i was ready to leave anthropic lol.

I did leave. Opus was just pumping out so much verbosity and wasting tokens on all that nonsense, plus I was bitter that Anthropic gates the best model behind usage credits, so I switched to ChatGPT just as Astra came out.

Then Opus 5.5 came out and I switched back to Ant after 1 month of OAI. Opus 5.5 fixed all the previous Opus 5 problems, and while Fable still requires credits, there's hardly any need to use it since Opus 5.5 is so good and so token efficient.

I literally left. 5.5 is so much better. I don't know how they managed to mess up 5 so bad

5 I couldn't bear. It was terrible AND verbose

It's less obvious but it's still there. For starters it loves to anthropomorphize everything, it excessively uses verbs that shouldn't be used with inanimate objects and concepts. Not the only issue though.

Fable 5.1 does. Wretched

I made it with 5.5, sorry!

Every other comment on LLM news in 2023:

"this is the worst it will ever be"

Fairly sure that if the correct GPOs are set, there is no need for any shell commands needed for a TPM PIN enrollment.

Windows and macOS both can do FDE with good UI/UX compared to Linux.

This is 100% correct, my comment was referring to non-domain joined PCs with no policies set.

That site is horrible to read and doesn't respect my zoom level at all.

There are also electrostatic air filters, but those tend to need an activated carbon stage to be actually good all things put together.

Isn’t that just a marketing term for ionizer?

No, they use significantly higher voltages to actually have small pollutants precipitate. Ionizers tend to not go that far.

That doesn’t seem to follow from the Wikipedia article on them, which seems to say one is the same as the other. Though there’s a third option with a similar name that is used without a filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_precipitator

How does it not follow? The Wikipedia article even lists ionizers as a separate article.

Ionizers are described as "air filtration using electrostatic attraction", while the ESP page I linked as the alternative specifically lists being filterless as its distinguishing feature, and is described as typically using lower voltage in home applications.

IKEA has a few air quality meters. Good accurate sensors are rather expensive however, for both particulates and CO2.

At this point I think with a bit of iteration the end result would quickly exceed that of an usual Blu-Ray player or TV firmware. Hardware manufacturers have shipped slop code before we called it slop code.

I really hope not, there isn't a single redeeming quality to vinyls from any practical point of view.

The big album art?

Even the discs themselves can be works of art now. Even though vinyl discs are less practical than CDs they're a subjectively fun art experience.

I'll give it that, though the size in general is a downside for more people than it is a benefit.

to play a record, i don't need a computer or any electronics created after, say, 1960 or so. that's a nice benefit :)

Better yet, you don't need any components in the supply chain that weren't well within the means of people 100 years ago. Vinyls and Edison cylinders will outlive every CD ever made.

That's a fun statement. I think we already had vacuum tubes and other foundational components that would in theory have allowed someone to build a CD player a 100 years ago or very close to that. If they would have had the knowledge.

For starters, CDs are not very dense, you can see the data with a microscope: http://www.pmonta.com/compact-disc-microscopy.html

In addition to the circuitry, I was also assuming that the laser would pose a difficulty.

It doesn't really require a coherent light source, although that does allow further miniaturization.

I think it would be fair to allow a hypothetical 1920s CD player to occupy most of a room. I'd be interested to see exactly how hard it would be to produce such a thing using the available technology of the era, though I'm still somewhat skeptical regarding the complexity and precision required of the laser motor (which unlike a vinyl needle needs to be controlled manually, rather than just following a groove mechanically) and the spindle motor (which needs to accelerate precisely depending on the laser's distance from the center, unlike a record which revolves at a constant rate).

CD players came out in 80s, so one could say I don't need electronics made after the 80s to play those. Do those 20 years matter that much? I doubt it.

The PS5 optical drive is still incapable of handling Dolby Vision, which is a massive shame.

I think it's just that Sony doesn't want to pay to license Dolby Vision, not any actual technical reason.

> Well, and I am genuinely curious here, wouldn't defender and attacker capabilities being accessible equally by both parties be objectively worse than having a limited amount of privileged defenders?

Well, not really. Because those privileged defenders will never be able to predict what needs defending. So we have a few privileged "defended" places and the rest is left for privileged attackers to plunder.

Privileged attackers?? So that would be career cybersecurity experts with Project Glasswing/Daybreak/Googlewhatever access, using it to perform actual attacks? Because that's what privileged means in this context. Access to frontier models not available to the public.

> So that would be career cybersecurity experts with Project Glasswing/Daybreak/Googlewhatever access.

Yes. You really think access those models will not be given for offensive operations in each country? Of course they will be.

Well, seeing as Claude literally snitches on everyday people planning murder and Houthis building rockets I would assume that every user in project Glasswing is heavily and very effectively monitored. I have to admit that I genuinely do not think that what you're hypothesizing is happening right now. I would bet good money that the amount of people with Glasswing access doing actual Blackhat work is currently zero.

Perhaps in the future this will change, but even if that is the case, that's still a win for the defenders. Having a time advantage, even for a few months, is still a win.

Edit: Actually, the CIA/FBI/NSA/Etc.. does probably have access and are probably trying to hack Iran and so forth, so my comment above is probably technically wrong in that respect.

> I would bet good money that the amount of people with Glasswing access doing actual Blackhat work is currently zero.

I think it's not "blackhat" in that sense because it's officially sanctioned. Same goes for equivalent models overseas.

The only thing these embargos achieve is giving massive nations a huge advantage, but leaves the average country and person exposed.

I edited my comment above before realizing this is what you meant. And its a valid point I concede. Still, I disagree that advantaging this activity is the only thing these embargoes achieve. I would argue that they legitimately also give the Linux kernel, cURL and so on an advantage. And as long as that is true, this still makes it an overall win in my books, even if it also enables officially sanctioned offensive activities. I'm not a US citizen, but I would still rather get pwned by the CIA than both the CIA and Shinyhunters.

Sounds like you would have been in support of the US export bans on cryptography back in the day ;)