Please don't post snarky or aggressive comments, and especially not in Show HN threads. You broke both the site guidelines and the Show HN guidelines badly here.
Edit: actually, the commenting history of this account is breaking the site guidelines so badly and so often that I've banned it. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611655.
You're correct, yet it's also a fact that Anthropic was attempting regulatory capture in order to limit open weight models, cripple their competition and solidify their market position. Nothing wrong with enjoying the sheer Schadenfreude of the situation. Their self-serving fearmongering had the most hilariously unexpected result possible.
Maybe. But I disagree in general with "nothing wrong with enjoying the sheer schadenfreude of the situation". Schadenfreude is a description of a common human impulse that is not a good impulse!
Normally I would agree with you, but in this case I'm gonna make an exception. These are billionaires who campaign against open weight models. Their misfortunes are our freedom.
Nope, if everyone makes exceptions for the people that specifically annoy them, then there will always be some exception for everybody. Much better to endeavor not to give into your own vices, even the understandable ones.
You can come up with and advocate for a policy to be evenly applied to all the billionaires whose "misfortunes are our freedom", instead of supporting this corrupt favoritism.
You can be annoyed by a person or company without wanting the federal government of the United States to grind a personal axe against that person or company.
What you're advocating for here is banana republic governance. It's bad.
During the Obama administration, when solar companies were subsidized, the refrain was that "government was picking winners and losers". But now, there's a cut and dry case of one company getting targeted by the administration. Either ban all the powerful models or ban none of them.
Remember arbitrary application of law expands and affects everyone. You will be affected. The advantage of the rule of law is the equal application to everyone.
No, it is not. This is the entire thing about the rule of law. People constantly think their pet thing is sui generis. But actually the even handed application of the rule of law is a general good.
Arbitrary enforcement of a regulations is against the principles of administrative law and gives rise to a cause of action that can set aside the governments action. So all regulation has that as an explicit assumption.
There is also a case that it violates due process because anthropic wasn’t provided adequate notice before enforcement or an opportunity to challenge, respond, or take steps to comply.
There is latitude for compelling state interests and national security is one with the widest latitude and potentially one that counts can’t review. But the court of public opinion may draw the inference that this is direct retaliation for refusing to make the models available for autonomous weapons and spying.
They proposed a plan to ensure their dominance of the space and to cripple any competitors using regulation as the weapon. So I’m not going to feel sorry for them and their temporary plight
I am always amazed how people start startups in areas they have absolutely no idea about, and build things for imaginary users that do not exist. Well guess that is what a big co "new products team" teaches you...
Not sure what you mean by imaginary users, he did speak to relevant people for his mental health startup venture. And while I agree it's magnitudes riskier to start in a domain that you're unfamiliar with, there are plenty who do so, and become very successful.
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