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New comment by ozmodiar in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

ozmodiar — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:25:48 +0000

I'm having trouble thinking of groups of people who are even able to change members outside of modern capitalism. Through most of human history we've been stuck with our group or tribe. Heck, I see people stick with groups that are toxic to them just out of the sense of connection it gives.

New comment by ozmodiar in "AI is making junior devs useless"

ozmodiar — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:41:16 +0000

I am both shocked and not shocked at how many people support incel garbage reasoning here.

New comment by ozmodiar in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

ozmodiar — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:08:41 +0000

I think the tragic thing is that not everyone has a price, just the vast majority.

New comment by ozmodiar in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

ozmodiar — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:04:54 +0000

It doesn't need to be most, it just needs to be enough. I dont think it's close to a majority, but at the same time its more than enough.

New comment by ozmodiar in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

ozmodiar — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:52:56 +0000

"Glorified" is underselling it. Thier ability to microtarget anyone based on any trait is basically the death of democratic discourse. Now, if you're saying the data is just there for anyone to do this, you're correct, and society needs to understand that and what it means.

New comment by ozmodiar in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

ozmodiar — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:32:31 +0000

So we should just do whatever unethical thing we want, as long as it isn't strictly illegal/we won't get caught? Actually that does seem to be the Silicon Valley mantra. I dont know how people think this is going to play out well, particularly when the entities in question are often powerful enough to change the laws themselves.

New comment by ozmodiar in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

ozmodiar — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:21:31 +0000

A lot of that turned out to be pushed by Epstein and his associates. It's not hard to figure out why they would enjoy a world with lots of racism, sexism and general inequity. Its really disturbing when you consider how much power this network still has.

New comment by ozmodiar in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

ozmodiar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:34:33 +0000

The US bullying other countries to follow its interests has also existed before a year ago. People are just waking up to the idea that it's going to get worse and not better.

New comment by ozmodiar in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

ozmodiar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:28:44 +0000

Don't worry, China is coming out pretty far ahead so I'm sure we'll still be in a unipolar world when this is all over, and you can sleep safe at night. I imagine you didn't know.

New comment by ozmodiar in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

ozmodiar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:51:07 +0000

I've been thinking of this too. I think Steam is, and I'll even throw in Mozilla, despite a few missteps. Gog seems okay, but that's much smaller. If we can expand to large tech organizations then Wikipedia has remained pretty consistent. Even Steam doesn't have a corporate structure in the traditional sense, and I couldn't think of a single publicly traded company I'd trust.

New comment by ozmodiar in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

ozmodiar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:40:08 +0000

It does concern me, and it should have concerned them enough to fall on their sword for their principals. They have FU money, if they're not willing to, who is?

New comment by ozmodiar in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

ozmodiar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:38:20 +0000

17. Top members of government, education and business (particularly tech) part of pedophile kidnapping and rape cult that has been shaping reactionary culture for decades now. I seriously don't even know how to process the world I live in anymore.

New comment by ozmodiar in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

ozmodiar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:30:01 +0000

If they don't support any principles then it isn't a side worth supporting. If my choice is between China 1 and China 2 then idgaf.

New comment by ozmodiar in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

ozmodiar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:18:36 +0000

AI's approach: * User has history of anti AI rhetoric, increasingly agitated and unstable. * User has removed all phones and cellular connections from their car. Increase monitoring through surveillance cameras and monitoring of their social groups. * User has been spotted making unusual travel choices moving towards key infrastructure - deploy interception measures.

We already have the tech to do all of that. A rifle isn't going to help against AI. Or for the linesman:

* Employee required for critical infrastructure has been identified to hold unaligned political beliefs. Replace with more pliable individual and move to low impact location.

No one who wants to bring down an AI like this would ever be able to get close to it, even if it lived in only one data center. You could try hiding all your communications, but then it will just consider you a likely agitator anyway. That's the risk of unaccountable mass surveillance (the only kind that's ever existed). Doesn't really matter if there's a person on top or not.

New comment by ozmodiar in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

ozmodiar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:48:03 +0000

It's so much worse than that. The government actively encourages a lack of business ethics. Heck, it started the term with a crypto rug pull. Money continues to funnel upward to all the worst players, and watchdogs are being targeted and destroyed. Even if you get new people in power, you're going to find the upper echelons completely full of outlandishly wealthy, morally bankrupt individuals that are very politically active. And now they have access to all of our communications and an AI to sift through it looking for dissent (or to spark its own). I guess this is the end game of "move fast and break things." The situation was never good, but it continues to get worse at an alarming rate.

New comment by ozmodiar in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

ozmodiar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:30:34 +0000

Not to mention that he and his cohorts had such close ties to Epstein that I find it impossible to imagine he didn't know exactly what was going on. This is someone who's known for building profiles of anyone who mentions him online, not some ambivalent rich guy.

New comment by ozmodiar in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

ozmodiar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:48:07 +0000

Don't worry, I'm sure that trusting these systems to a group of ghouls from the Epstein files won't have any negative consequences.

New comment by ozmodiar in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

ozmodiar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:35:49 +0000

Elon just needs a wild party to blow off steam.

New comment by ozmodiar in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

ozmodiar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:33:18 +0000

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that there are no heroes to cheer for.

New comment by ozmodiar in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

ozmodiar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:31:01 +0000

What's the deal with the settlers? That's really where I lose all faith Isreal has good intentions.