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New comment by chaostheory in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

chaostheory — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:17:49 +0000

Why make a pointless comment when you no longer have anything substantial or interesting to write, or is that an "eastern centric view"?

New comment by chaostheory in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

chaostheory — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:16:45 +0000

The CCP's recent yearly subsidies for China's EV industry ranges from $30 billion - $46 billion per year compared to $10 billion - $20 billion per year for the US. A conservative estimate of total subsidies lands China at about $230 billion while the US was at $70 billion.

New comment by chaostheory in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

chaostheory — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:04:53 +0000

Who cares if another country didn’t take advantage of globalism? This doesn’t weaken my argument that globalism is what helped China rise again from centuries of mismanagement and neglect

New comment by chaostheory in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

chaostheory — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:14:47 +0000

> such oversimplification on steroids is totally misleading.

Yes, so the kettle is calling out the pot?

> globalism was never invented or promoted to help any country in poverty

It doesn’t matter what it was designed for. What matters is what it does in reality and there is no doubt that globalism helped lift China from Mao’s disastrous policies. That’s not mutually exclusive from China’s past as the Middle Kingdom

New comment by chaostheory in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

chaostheory — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:58:05 +0000

Sure, but not at China’s scale and no where close to number of industries where China does it. Why? The US was a net importer in order to support the dollar being the global reserve.

New comment by chaostheory in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

chaostheory — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:54:17 +0000

What’s worse, tariffs or outright banning the competition from your market? China has done both despite globalism being what has lifted it from poverty. Why is everyone suddenly surprised that globalism and free markets are coming to an end? Is this a net good? Mostly no unless you count more redundant supply chains.

New comment by chaostheory in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

chaostheory — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:27:14 +0000

No, he means that the US will close most of its domestic market to competition just like China has for decades, and the US may start subsidizing and dumping its goods everywhere

New comment by chaostheory in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

chaostheory — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:37:28 +0000

They have a lowering kit, but it’s “coming soon” and it costs extra

New comment by chaostheory in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

chaostheory — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:35:18 +0000

My point is a good portion of HN is composed of pirates who don’t like rules and have a higher tolerance for risk. You can dislike that all you want for any given reason both valid and petty. However, what you’re seeing are core values from the people who created this community and the same type of people still run it today so you’re going to keep seeing this kind of thinking moving forward

New comment by chaostheory in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

chaostheory — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:51:05 +0000

Ofcourse. This is HN and not LinkedIn.

We have a lot more people here who like bending rules as opposed to following them.

New comment by chaostheory in "Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed"

chaostheory — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:31:07 +0000

> Regardless of who was controlling it, why did this guy let his car jump the kerb and go through a house? Why was he going fast enough?

There are decades worth of man-machines UX research to prove this: the more you lean on automated systems to perform a manual task, like specific vehicle operations, the more your reaction time and relefexes for that specific motor skill will suffer.

Non-level 4 driver assistance tech should only be used for helping prevent accidents and not pretend to be actual full self driving

New comment by chaostheory in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

chaostheory — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:21:36 +0000

"Already we have turned all of our critical industries... over to these... things... these lumps of silver and paste we call nanorobots. And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day and announce that they have no further need of us?"

Sister Miriam Godwinson, We Must Dissent

This game and its ideas are so timeless.

New comment by chaostheory in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

chaostheory — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:18:50 +0000

I wish they would release a remastered version of the game with updated graphics and movies, with nothing else changed. The game mechanics were great. Beyond Earth was not good in comparison.

New comment by chaostheory in "Making Claude a Chemist"

chaostheory — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:31:54 +0000

If safety is a lie, then the arguement for massive and overbearing regulation and controls gets a massive boost

New comment by chaostheory in "Making Claude a Chemist"

chaostheory — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:41:07 +0000

sure, but how else would you better guarantee safety? How else can we avoid annoying guardrails?

Besides, it's not like you can't have different agents with skills collaborating

New comment by chaostheory in "Making Claude a Chemist"

chaostheory — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:05:58 +0000

It would make more sense to have specialized versions of Claude instead of having a universal one ie BioClaude, ProgrammerClaude, NuclearClaude, CyberSecurityClaude, et al

This would be both safer and less annoying to use.

New comment by chaostheory in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

chaostheory — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:21:40 +0000

The agent harness matters just as much as the AI model. Using Hermes or OpenClaw feels like night vs day when using OpenAI’s apps even when using the same exact model.

You can even see difference in agent harnesses using the same model in the same company if you compare Gemini CLI with AntiGrav. They are different experiences.

I’m pretty sure Apple’s agent harness will be drastically different from Google’s even with the same model

New comment by chaostheory in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

chaostheory — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:51:27 +0000

You’d only have to worry if we still had a long horizon of peace and globalism. With more potential breaks in supply chains, everything will cost a lot more in terms of time and money.

New comment by chaostheory in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

chaostheory — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:45:18 +0000

We had a thing called globalism that drastically reduced costs. Globalism right now is on life support. Given geopolitics, I don’t see how it’s going to survive.

New comment by chaostheory in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

chaostheory — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:18:22 +0000

Yes, because otherwise your economy and country collapse sooner or later. ie everyone dies. Why do think homogenous countries like Japan and South Korea are finally opening up the immigration floodgates? Because there’s currently no other choice. The other options (directly lowering the costs of child care, lowering work hours, robots, et al) still haven’t worked. Immigration buys you time.

If you don’t want immigration, but you still want to buy time then you have to end socialist entitlement programs for the elderly.