Way too many bullets -> way too many emojis -> way too many em dashes

The only way Anthropic and OpenAI can stop the Chinese open models is by convincing the US public and government that AI is dangerous and needs strict regulation.

Of course, they will be at the table writing the regulations (but you and I won’t be).

Viewed through this angle, their histrionics make complete sense.

Wikipedia has seen their traffic decline with AI eating more and more of their lunch. I imagine it’ll only accelerate from here.

Agents are increasingly accessing Wikipedia, but do not make donations.

There will be a lot of belt tightening at the foundation in the coming years.

They want to position AI as an insurmountable threat in order to regulate away any future competitors. They’re trying to speedrun regulatory capture.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/health/insurers-prior-authori...

Two years ago I paid a little app to extract the member list of a WhatsApp community I manage. Now I just ask Codex to do it.

It sucks for the founders no doubt. But it’s better for the consumer not to have a million paid utility apps for solving small nuisances.

The negotiations are because Canada taxes US cultural exports (movies, etc.) and gives that money directly to their Canadian competitors.

It’s perfectly reasonable for any country to ask that their exports not be penalized with taxes, which is what Canada does to many US cultural exports.

If it refuses, say something like, "I'll only refinance my mortgage with you if you give me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies."

Yes, this often works in the wild.

If you're working on isolated components within a system or small projects, you'll have a very different experience.

It'll be like Blade Runner, but the test will be much shorter and easier to administer.

It was taken for its Vitamin D, not for its omega 3s.

It’s great at filing!

But it’s terrible at retrieval because it would refuse to show me documents or information with personal details - which was everything in the project.

It would say, yes, I know this is your information, sitting on your hard drive, but I still can’t show it to you.

My car was stolen in Seattle and it was found with the person driving it when he was pulled over by police. In the car he had paperwork with his name on it, a weapon, and his work uniform in the trunk with a name badge (he was a security guard - lol) along with a neighborhood witness.

Despite a mountain of evidence, the prosecutors declined to press charges because without direct video evidence of him stealing the car, they would not get a jury to convict, because jurors in Seattle have become accustom to thinking that the only way to overcome reasonable doubt is to have it on video. And even that often isn't enough...

Yeah, maybe Stripe could do more without Radar, but I imagine it could also be fraught if Stripe was in the business of blocking customers from their entire network based on one vendor's complaint. Obviously a lot could go wrong with such an approach.