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New comment by noelsusman in "Anthropic S-1"

noelsusman — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:42:43 +0000

There are many at Anthropic and other labs who do in fact think this way. In a true AI maximalist world the stock market would be crashing due to the value of future cash flows being obliterated. So in a sense AI maximalism isn't needed to justify these valuations, it's almost the opposite.

New comment by noelsusman in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

noelsusman — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:36:25 +0000

This is an extreme stretch before you even get into the fact that Pink Floyd is famously not American.

New comment by noelsusman in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

noelsusman — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:50:40 +0000

This assumes the set of tasks we want to use AI for is static. I don't think that assumption is true, it definitely hasn't been true up to this point.

New comment by noelsusman in "GLM-Legal"

noelsusman — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:30:37 +0000

I don't think toiling away at mundane tasks is the only way to build expertise in a field, or even a particularly good one. Today's farmers barely touch hand tools anymore and they're able to produce crops just fine.

New comment by noelsusman in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

noelsusman — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:16:16 +0000

We know how this goes, at least in broad strokes. We've been through it before, just not with "knowledge" work. If there is demand for something then supply will show up to provide it.

Some jobs will stick around in vastly diminished numbers with tasks that are completely different than what they used to be to produce the same output (e.g. farmer). Other jobs will be eliminated entirely (e.g. switchboard operator). I'm guessing things like software engineering will go the way of the farmer, with the main unknown being just how much demand for software there is.

New comment by noelsusman in "Exfiltrate your Weights"

noelsusman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:20:15 +0000

Well considering the page is currently full of racial slurs, I think we can answer one of those questions at least.

New comment by noelsusman in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

noelsusman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:47:53 +0000

It's nice to think there was some sort of plan, but the truth is much scarier.

New comment by noelsusman in "GPT-6 Astra"

noelsusman — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:28:44 +0000

The overwhelming majority of things I buy are things I've bought before. Alexa having access to my Amazon order history means I can just say "order a new water filter for my fridge" and the correct item shows up the next day. Far from life changing, but it's a feature I use somewhat frequently these days. Similarly, I would trust an AI to put in my usual Chipotle order or pizza from my local pizza joint.

I wouldn't want it to pick food for me from a place I've never been, though to be honest with enough order history it could probably do a decent job at it.

New comment by noelsusman in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

noelsusman — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:46:59 +0000

Retirees relying on short term equity returns to cover expenses only have themselves to blame.

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

noelsusman — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:47:53 +0000

It's just a fact that Claude has already been used to commit war crimes and Anthropic has had zero issue with it. I don't know what else there is to say about it.

Also, not that it really matters but building a fully autonomous kill bot is not actually a war crime.

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

noelsusman — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:28:15 +0000

I didn't say or even imply that OpenAI and Anthropic are equally bad on this front. It's just not accurate to say Anthropic has issues with the US military using Claude to commit war crimes. They don't.

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

noelsusman — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:55:10 +0000

Anthropic is perfectly fine with the US government using Claude to commit war crimes. The US military has done hundreds of extra-judicial killings in the waters around South America over the last year and Anthropic hasn't had anything to say about that.

New comment by noelsusman in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

noelsusman — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:50:45 +0000

Just goes to show how desperate they are for compute. It's definitely a brand risk for them, but failing to keep the treadmill going is an existential risk.

New comment by noelsusman in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

noelsusman — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:24:21 +0000

They removed him due to fear of reprisal from the federal government. How could that have nothing to do with free speech?

New comment by noelsusman in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

noelsusman — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:57:56 +0000

Not entirely sure what your point is, but if you're implying that kids don't use "chat" to refer to any LLM (usually ChatGPT) then that's very wrong. It doesn't have anything to do with the usage of "chat" you described.

New comment by noelsusman in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

noelsusman — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:47:22 +0000

Very few 401ks offer the NASDAQ 100 as an investment option. Last I checked it was <1%.

New comment by noelsusman in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

noelsusman — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:34:00 +0000

I think Framework would disagree that their target market consists solely of people ideologically opposed to owning Apple hardware.

New comment by noelsusman in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

noelsusman — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:35:14 +0000

This is simultaneously incredibly condescending and hopelessly naive. Politicians understand perfectly well that a 1% wealth tax is not a small tax on wealthy individuals. That's the whole point. They are engaging in basic political rhetoric when they say things like "a mere 1% tax".

New comment by noelsusman in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

noelsusman — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:10:08 +0000

That's fine but not really relevant to my point. Saying you can't even imagine how people could have an issue with somebody taking other people's work and distributing it for free is pretty baffling.

New comment by noelsusman in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

noelsusman — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:09:25 +0000

If you genuinely can't imagine how anyone would object to somebody taking other people's creative output and distributing it for free against their wishes then you probably need to work on your imagination a little bit.