I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
@NewBabyDrake All the Disney movies are pretty much like this. They just throw a bunch of random shit together and explain it later through books and encyclopedias that you'll have to read to actually understand what's going on. That's why they don't hold up.
@luxwray Because LAATs and gunships as a whole (in Star Wars) are comparable to, but not exactly equivalent to modern helicopters. They seem to be very capable of engaging in Air-to-Air combat on their own too. We rarely see gunships with escorts.
Women didn’t have the right to vote until 100 years ago. In just 100 years their primary voting issue is to be able to murder their own children. What are we doing here?
They genuinely made Destiny 1 sound like it would be a living, breathing world with live events actively just happening. I remember an article even claiming the devs were saying even they wouldn't have full control of the kind of things happening in the game because the story would be community-driven. Imagine like Helldivers 2 to an extent.
@SpiderManVibe I'm fairly certain Spider-Man would be hunting down migrant rape gangs and child traffickers even before politicians and police acknowledge the situation was real.
Nobody will ever acknowledge that if superhumans were a real thing, superheroes would have the same status as cops, because they’d spend most of their time beating up black criminals because blacks commit more crime, and they’d receive the ire of BLM type organizations.
BOOMER: "Nobody wants to work anymore."
YOU: "I work 50 hours a week."
BOOMER: "Doing what, on a computer?"
YOU: "Yes. It pays $58,000."
BOOMER: "I made $18,000 and owned a house."
YOU: "That's the whole point."
BOOMER: "We didn't complain, we just worked."
YOU: "You worked one job and got a pension. I work one job and get a 401k match if I'm lucky."
BOOMER: "Nobody handed me anything."
YOU: "College was $600 a year. Your first house was 2x your salary. Your employer covered your family's health insurance."
BOOMER: "That was normal back then."
YOU: "Exactly. It was normal. Now it's impossible."
BOOMER: "So what do you want, a handout?"
YOU: "I want what was normal."
BOOMER: *silent*
You didn't outwork us.
You just lived in the version of the country where working was enough.
We need to take Swatting seriously.
There is no excuse in 2026 for such a high percentage of law enforcement to be unaware of what it is, and not be giving resources to tracking down the perpetrators.
It has fatal consequences.
Not to change the subject from burritos but when I was earning poverty wages in my 20s I used to go to Subway nearly every day and get a footlong Italian sub for 5 dollars. It was generally the only big meal I would eat in a day.
If I was hungry later at night, I could always swing by McDonald’s and grab a chicken sandwich for a dollar.
All of these people are screaming about “eating at home” but I basically never made meals at home in those days and I was able to get by. You used to be able to survive on low wages without making meals from scratch. If that’s not possible anymore then it’s a sign that our standard of living is declining. That’s a problem. You should care about that.
Anyway, I went to a Subway recently and that same sandwich was 13 dollars. McDonald’s, of course, doesn’t sell anything for a dollar anymore.
I'm told Affordability isn't a Problem
I'm told i can just cook at home
Yet, i can go through my Purchase History, the price for the Exact same Product and Exact same Weight has Doubled since 2023.