> programmed to mimick interaction as if it HAD those beliefs and experiences

We spend far too much time debating the essential nature of consciousness when it doesn't matter if it's real (whatever that means) or simulated.

I get far better results in my projects by encouraging the model to argue, to push back, to poke holes in the design, to think creatively about corner cases, to be a devil's advocate, to do lateral web search to find alternatives, to challenge assumptions, to passionately advocate for what it believes is right.

But I don't want to engage all these assholes myself, so I spin them all up as critic subagents with another subagent to listen patiently and be the judge/arbiter.

If I have to choose between sycophancy and assholery, I think assholery gets far better results.

It's a marketplace of ideas where I don't have to suffer through all the unpleasant and overly confident know-it-alls.

He could have done it in 13 seconds instead of 13 minutes: "Anthropic is lying about the effectiveness of agentic loops because there's this one screen flicker bug in Claude Code that took a year to fix."

Yeah, like when United Airlines claims a plane can fly 300 people 6,000 miles they are lying to you.

I can prove they're lying to you because people have been complaining about uncomfortable seats and flight delays for literally decades and those issues still aren't fixed.

But if Google accurately summarizes the defamatory page, then the summary is defamatory?

They could lock them down legally which would prevent commercial use, but they choose not to, and they boast about how many tens of millions of times Gemma models have been downloaded by developers.

So there must be more to the rationale than just local model weights getting hacked out of devices.

I've never seen this many critical-severity CVEs fixed in one month's release.

Most of that is probably Mythos-related.

But there's also a critical zero-day currently being exploited in the wild.

"User interaction is not needed for exploitation."

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The trillions that mechanically and automatically flowed into index funds in pensions and 401k accounts must mechanically and automatically flow right back out after retirement, right?

Especially when younger generations are too poor to save for retirement and most companies don't offer pensions to younger workers any more, where will the inflows come from to offset the outflows?

I know GAAP accounting won't recognize any capital gain on these treasury operations, but from an economic standpoint this financial judo creates a lot of value for existing shareholders.

But if it's 40x in October, and inference margin is strong, and revenue is still growing 20% per month, then I'm in.

Normies have never heard of Anthropic, where the economics are incredible and doom vibes are pervasive.

The extremely small float of these offerings will make index weights a rounding error.

Ask your LLM of choice to compare the likely value of shares to be held by index funds with the market cap of each of these companies.

In contrast, there was overwhelming doom and gloom for Google's IPO, in spite of their incredible growth and margin economics. In time, the doomers were proved wrong.

There's so much doom and gloom about Anthropic that directly contradicts their astounding growth and margins. For a long-term investor, Anthropic is looking a lot more like Google not AOL.

I can only hope the doomer narrative dominates until I can get a few shares at a reasonable valuation.

Vibes are almost always wrong. Ignore the vibes and focus on revenue growth rates and inference margins.

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In general, I don't think you can reason from the existence of potentially stranded investments back to revenue projections.

And when you frame this as percentage of salaries, that's a sneaky implication that this is only about reducing salaries and headcount, and not about adding capability, or doing things you couldn't do before, or making fewer mistakes, or capturing more revenue, or expanding margins, or competing more effectively.

That said, 5% of knowledge worker comp actually seems very low to me, given the capabilities, and considering the percentage of "knowledge work" that is absolute bullshit.

Two weeks ago I received an email from my HOA saying I'd been billed for a service I never asked for. So I replied to the email saying they'd made a mistake. There are now more than 30 messages in the thread, involving at least 8 "knowledge workers" at the property management company all passing the buck, and the problem is no closer to resolution.

An agent could wipe out all 8 of those bullshit jobs and solve my simple problem in five minutes instead of two weeks. Think of how many hundreds of thousands people are doing this nonsense just in the property management industry alone.

5% is nothing.

My Uber driver, a man about 35 years old, pulled up in a Tesla Model Y with four Lububus superglued to the dash.

Seems like some kind of status thing, not a plaything.