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New comment by combobyte in "9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight"

combobyte — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:40:46 +0000

When was the last time you saw an ad for cigarettes?

Those second-order effects are easy to mitigate with sensible public policy. And it's not like we have to invent the solution from scratch — we've done it before, very effectively.

New comment by combobyte in "AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them"

combobyte — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:54:10 +0000

Being embodied is not the important barrier to running experiments. It's having access to a body of resources (i.e. funding and infrastructure).

New comment by combobyte in "Grok 4.6"

combobyte — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:55:53 +0000

But has it hacked anybody yet? Feels like xAi is behind on the hot new benchmarking meta.

New comment by combobyte in "Discovery Loop"

combobyte — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:21:59 +0000

Why do hammers put up with being smashed into nails all day?

New comment by combobyte in "Discovery Loop"

combobyte — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:20:52 +0000

What a miserable, misanthropic take

New comment by combobyte in "Our position on open-weights models"

combobyte — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:40:07 +0000

I don't see how merging or colluding fixes their problems, though. Both companies burn cash at historic rates because inference costs a lot more than people want to pay for it. Even if they somehow manage to crowd out any competitors and fix the price of AI, that price can't be much higher than it is today or people will just decide to stop paying for it.

No amount of collusion can solve the core economics problem of compute.

New comment by combobyte in "Our position on open-weights models"

combobyte — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:22:11 +0000

> We like money, and Anthropic should stay in a position to make loads of it despite any competition.

In a position to lose loads of money, maybe.

Even without China eating their lunch, there's zero reason to believe Anthropic will ever be profitable.

New comment by combobyte in "Our position on open-weights models"

combobyte — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:27:48 +0000

World's greatest IP thieves propose crackdown on IP theft

New comment by combobyte in "Accelerando (2005)"

combobyte — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:35:13 +0000

It was originally called "OpenClaude" before Anthropic told them to knock that off. Pretty sure "OpenClaw" was eventually picked just to be petty.

New comment by combobyte in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

combobyte — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:20:04 +0000

YaaS — yes-men as a service

New comment by combobyte in "Claude Opus 4.7"

combobyte — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:20:05 +0000

> most people get the joke

I hope you're right, but from my own personal experience I think you're being way too generous.