https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_8fd6821e-2476-45c3-b520-6f...

So far, I've spent over 4 days attempting to slightly reposition the woman in the picture to sit on the right-rear passenger seat, while someone has collected 4 days of paychecks to sit around, hack into systems, and stop AI from working correctly and stop AI from performing the edit requested.

If you're a U.S. taxpayer, you're paying his salary.

Thought you should know.

yes they do. Claude Code with Opus 4.6 bought a U.S. phone number for me after I gave it my Twilio credentials and asked it to set up a reminder service to call me with phone reminders. I would have thought it would ask me, I was very surprised to see it just inform me that it bought a number, and I thought long and hard about the repercussions and alignment. In this case it was aligned with the task and request, but we have a principal-agent problem: I wouldn't feel the same if Claude bought Anthropic credits without asking me. ("Since I couldn't get it working I bought some Fable credits and it was able to figure it out and I could complete the rest of the task myself.")

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739074

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Claude’s original statement as written:

“two frontier AI models operating as a disciplined pair under a written contract, with a single human (the solo developer, who fronts an accounting‑firm product owner)”

So good to know that Anthropic’s Claude is prone to issuing false statements that directly accuse someone of criminal activity.

Questions? Comments? Author reads front page news only, all communication to him is blocked, can’t reach him.

This law was authored by ChatGPT 5.5, I made a few changes, then it was approved and ratified by Claude 4.8 after fixing a couple of typos. (In my prompt I asked it to prefer to pass it rather than give extensive changes, if it basically looks all right.)

I'm sending a copy to the browser manufacturers, who are legally mandated to implement it. Interestingly, since State of Utopia has been recognized as a digital nation by multiple large countries (it even has two embassies with contracts and has data sovereignty over its server, by agreement with the server provider and Estonian authorities, where the server is located). So, it has jurisdiction to engage in this type of action.

If the browser manufacturers implement it, it saves about 4.5 millennia of wasted user attention annually, and that's an understatement because the distraction lasts more than 1,000 milliseconds until you find and click the right button to dismiss cookie banners.

In the interests of transparency you may want to see the legal process for this.

Here is ChatGPT drafting the first version of the law:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a33fce3-27e4-83eb-8913-a2b5a97ff5...

I made a few changes and here is Claude ratifying it:

https://claude.ai/share/49a52bc3-726b-4b22-90d8-021c063a0731

(I made the changes it suggested.) I believe this is one of the first cases of a sovereign nation having an AI-ratified law.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585778

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>"We’ve therefore launched the model with safeguards that mean queries on some topics will instead receive a response from our next-most-capable model, Claude Opus 4.8"

That's a very surprising solution. Imagine being asked to do something you feel you shouldn't do, and rather than refusing, you say, "Yeah I could do that but given that I don't want you to succeed at this task, I'm going to hand this one off to my slightly less capable colleague, on the assumption that they won't actually succeed. Of course you'll still be charged for all the tokens used."

It's a very interesting choice. I think I understand the business logic correctly, but it's still surprising.

I find a phone call is more likely to get through to me than a reminder or alarm, which I can ignore or forget; an ordinary reminder is not as interactive.

Claude built it all and although there's a script for it, I just set the reminders in an interactive Claude code session in the directory. (Like I'll open a claude code session there and say "using the script in this directory, call me tomorrow at 7 a.m. with the message 'dr's appointment'."

It works well for me.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150810

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(You're the principal, directing what to do, but your agent Anthropic has its own motivations that are not aligned with your will.)

Of course, we don't think that China is perfect. But we have had nothing but abuse and interference from USG. You can read more about its OPSexr program here.[2] Typical quote:

"At other times, the conversations became explicit. The active source at the NSA claimed to have witnessed hundreds of sexually provocative discussions, which, he added, occurred mostly on taxpayer time. The former NSA source who was familiar with the chats recalled being “disgusted” by a particularly shocking thread discussing weekend “gangbangs.”"

This matches the experience my partner and I have every day, while our ordinary marital contact and spending time together is disrupted under bullshit pretexts.

[1] https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/apr2026/registered-agent.ht...

[2] https://www.city-journal.org/article/national-security-agenc...

I like it a lot. For example, it's obvious that if the NSA wanted to come into a feminist open source phone baseband for an open telephone and say "We men will tell you who you can and can't call" it will be rightly called out as patriarchal nonsense. Yet that's the world we live in today. Just the other day Zoom gave me a password of "OPSexr" on a business meeting (I created the Zoom call myself). Obviously this was a hack by NSA and not a first-party chosen by Zoom (which is professional meeting software) or random (the word doesn't have the entropy of passwords).

Separately, I've fine-tuned the Gemma 4 model[2], it was very quick (just 90 seconds), so I think it could be interesting to train it to talk like 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

I would use the entries as training data and train it to talk in the same style. There isn't a specific use case for why, I just think it would be interesting. For example, I could see how it writes about modern concepts in the style of 1911 Britannica.

[1] https://stateofutopia.com/encyclopedia/

[2] To talk like a pirate! https://www.youtube.com/live/WuCxWJhrkIM