Hacker News: SilverElfin

New comment by SilverElfin in "FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation"

SilverElfin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:00 +0000

Maybe what they hoped is what actually happens. The SEC gives wealthy people and companies a slap on the wrist typically. A fine that means nothing. Government agencies like the IRC or SEC mostly go after smaller players who are mostly less malicious but don’t have the connections or wealth to fight off the bureaucracy. But in FTX’s case they got in trouble before they reached that level of power.

New comment by SilverElfin in "FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation"

SilverElfin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:06:34 +0000

How did they have such a large stake? Is this some sort of social club between the Amodei’s and SBF because they share the same ideology (effective altruism)? Did Anthropic get partially funded by stolen money as a result? If so, that’s just gross and puts me off Anthropic.

New comment by SilverElfin in "The whirlwind 24 hours that led to export controls on Anthropic"

SilverElfin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:21:50 +0000

It’s longer than these 24 hours. Just 48 hours ago Dario Amodei wrote a long essay that argued for export controls on other parts of the AI supply chain. Anthropic has marketed Mythos as being too dangerous for months. Dario also has been fear mongering for years, like when he claimed GPT 2 was too dangerous.

With all of this, if there’s even a hint of a jailbreak, why would a) Anthropic not fix the issue, and b) why would they be surprised at an export ban?

The doomerism and safety theater and bid for regulatory capture has ironically hurt Anthropic itself. This company needs a new set of grown ups running it.

New comment by SilverElfin in "The Redistribution of Housing Wealth Caused by Rent Control [pdf]"

SilverElfin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:16:30 +0000

Why not just redistribute directly? If the concern is that some existing residents will no longer be able to afford things, give long time residents a subsidy voucher.

New comment by SilverElfin in "'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess"

SilverElfin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:58:54 +0000

I assume that’s a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

New comment by SilverElfin in "Meta’s chaotic AI strategy"

SilverElfin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:31:07 +0000

Yea isn’t that basically all “normal” work? You do tasks and have little ownership or fun.

It’s also obviously not “literally” the gulag. Do these children know what a gulag is and what happens there? It’s quite offensive to equate their luxurious spoiled lives with people getting tortured and murdered over politics.

New comment by SilverElfin in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

SilverElfin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:47:09 +0000

Anthropic themselves have played up the dangers of Mythos, limited its release, etc. So if it can be jail broken then it specifically deserves controls, per Dario’s own manifestos. David Sacks - the “AI Czar” - also said the government asked Anthropic to patch the issue but they refused, which is bizarre. And that led to the export ban.

New comment by SilverElfin in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:54:22 +0000

Doesn’t it still mean they have made better investment choices than the other big tech companies? I guess I don’t see why they missed a boat here. Also the models may be as much a commodity as compute.

New comment by SilverElfin in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:27:27 +0000

Did they miss it or are they careful to over invest, especially too early? Maybe their early bets in Anthropic were sized correctly since they’re making more money than all the other big tech investors in frontier labs.

New comment by SilverElfin in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:24:31 +0000

Amazon was the earliest large investor in Anthropic and has invested in them several times since then.

New comment by SilverElfin in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:20:56 +0000

I don’t think we will know. On the one hand, labs hold back until they have something competitive enough to release. So if Fable isn’t around, it removes that pressure. On the other hand, the Chinese labs have been moving fast anyways and are obviously behind, so it’s not any more of a problem to release a model that isn’t the very best.

New comment by SilverElfin in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:43:35 +0000

I actually found some of it useful. I saw some page where it helpfully pulled tweets from well known people relating to some story. So it’s not just some slop, or that’s how it looked to me.

New comment by SilverElfin in "How Musk's tactics left investors clamoring for SpaceX stock and ignoring risks"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:21:22 +0000

The real “how” is that our laws are not good enough to prevent the kind of corruption practiced by Trump and Musk. And agencies like the SEC are wasting time on useless side quests instead of going after the most obvious examples of fraud - like an administration that makes outrageous announcements all the time, that their friends and family can trade on. And they’re not going to go after Musk and everyone who is part of that IPO either.

New comment by SilverElfin in "SpaceX increases almost 30% after biggest IPO"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:14:06 +0000

Michael Burry made this chart to track just the Nvidia - SpaceX relationship:

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/michael-bu...

New comment by SilverElfin in "Small investors scrambled to buy SpaceX, despite belief valuation 'stupid'"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:12:55 +0000

I think the problem is the market is often irrational and subject to groupthink. It’s not irrational to take a bet that the value somehow sticks around, especially with all the games being played to prop up this overvalued stock.

New comment by SilverElfin in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:28:49 +0000

It certainly falls under 1st amendment protection since LLMs are about accessing speech. But that hasn’t stopped Dario from trying hard to push for regulations and bans that limit our civil rights. He and Sam Altman want regulatory capture at the expense of our right to free speech.

New comment by SilverElfin in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:27:06 +0000

Anthropic already requires ID verification for new accounts I believe?

New comment by SilverElfin in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:21:05 +0000

He wants bans to hurt his competitors and open models but not Anthropic. It’s just selfish addiction to power.

New comment by SilverElfin in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:18:49 +0000

Yep and they also want to only exempt models below some level of compute or capability from this process. In other words, if an open model ends up being competitive, they’ll use regulations to ban it.

New comment by SilverElfin in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SilverElfin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:16:54 +0000

Yes we do. Dario said GPT2 is too dangerous to release. He’s dishonest since that’s obviously not true. This theater is about holding onto power and control. And about limiting competition.