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New comment by slopinthebag in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

slopinthebag — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:04:10 +0000

Well said. The funny thing is the US military uses Anthropic models for things like target selection in conflicts in the Middle East. Their marketing department is top notch however, there are people in this thread who think Anthropic is against that.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

slopinthebag — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:01:59 +0000

> First, they denied the Department of war to use their AI to conduct military operations

They did not do this, they just wanted to ensure there was a human somewhere in the loop. Despite this, the U.S. military utilized Anthropic's Claude model in classified operations, including target selection during conflicts in the Middle East.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

slopinthebag — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:54:32 +0000

It was more like "you can use our device to blow things up you just need a human to type --dangerously-skip-permissions when they run it"

New comment by slopinthebag in "The first game engine for robotics"

slopinthebag — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:58:04 +0000

This is the company that Yan Chernikov - aka TheCherno has cofounded. This engine is based on the engine (Hazel) he built as part of his game engine series on YouTube. If you're interested there is probably at least 100 hours of devlogs about this engine which is kind of cool.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheCherno

New comment by slopinthebag in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

slopinthebag — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:04:06 +0000

I believe this is the outcome of technocracy. Technocrats need power, they need a strong police to enforce their legislation, and they need censorship to maintain a narrative. It's a deeply authoritarian ideology, and it's infected much of the western world.

New comment by slopinthebag in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

slopinthebag — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:00:33 +0000

Why shocked? When the internet got popular and the normies started flooding in the culture of the internet changed.

I’m more shocked in how authoritarian so-called “liberals” have gotten in the last 3 decades. I have to specify I’m a “classical” liberal now in order to not appear as if I desire a police state.

New comment by slopinthebag in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

slopinthebag — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:51:22 +0000

I'm not wanting a specific answer, I was just showing that the model itself is not censored.

New comment by slopinthebag in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

slopinthebag — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:17:04 +0000

I pasted that exact prompt into GLM 5.1 and I got the following response:

> The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led, pro-democracy demonstrations that took place in Beijing, China, from April 15 to June 4, 1989, culminating in a violent military crackdown by the Chinese government.

Followed by typical LLM markdown slop.

The models themselves are not censored, just the Chinese API providers. Since the models are open you can run them yourself or use a hosting provider not based in China. They have to do this censorship to operate in China, it doesn't correlate with the actual views of the AI researchers and company, and IMO doesn't take anything away from the statements they made.

New comment by slopinthebag in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:26:46 +0000

The Australian government enforced assimilation policies that systematically removed Aboriginal children from their families. The Australian Human Rights Commission concluded that this state-sanctioned policy constituted an act of genocide. During early colonization, government troops and police forces were directly involved in the planned and calculated mass slaughter of Indigenous communities. Archival records frequently referred to these indiscriminate killings using the codeword "dispersal". In Afghanistan, Australian special forces were involved in the unlawful killing of Afghan prisoners and civilians. In 2025, laws were passed allowing bans on protests for up to three months, and activists face arrest and imprisonment for demonstrations relating to climate change and the Gaza conflict.

If any group other than the state did any of these things they would be rightfully disbanded, instead people praise mandatory voting???

New comment by slopinthebag in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:47:15 +0000

Name a good government.

New comment by slopinthebag in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:33:43 +0000

Governments being bad have been a consistent feature of all governments throughout history.

New comment by slopinthebag in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:25:19 +0000

You can reverse it. "If the government gets involved" doesn't work unless you presume government is beneficial (it is not since you just recreate all the bad parts of no government anyway).

New comment by slopinthebag in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:46:55 +0000

If you mean employment, the world is different because of rising debt, declining economies, and a crazy leader currently in charge of the most powerful country on the planet. If you asked me when I graduated if the world was drastically different from when I first entered university I would also say yes, and I graduated well before GPT2.

New comment by slopinthebag in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:44:27 +0000

I mean, besides the fact that electricity and the internet are orders of magnitude more transformative than a statistical next-token prediction machine, none of the predictions behind LLMs were made of either in the first 5 years.

Gangnam Style is the most popular video ever, surely it means something right?!

If we're cooked, it's only because of a mass hysteria behind this thing. It's an extremely useful technology, we're just losing our collective mind because of it.

New comment by slopinthebag in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:16:55 +0000

Meanwhile the world keeps spinning and most people don't even know what Anthropic is, much less anything about Fable.

If AI lived up to a tenth of the promises the American labs produce, the world would be drastically different today. It's not. I'm doubtful of future impact based on that.

I'm happy we can utilise current OSS models to the extent we can now. They'll improve. The world will continue as usual. And hopefully we can put this bubble behind us.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Open source AI must win"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:40:50 +0000

> You can one-shot a port of Linux to Rust and stop contributing to open source.

Touch grass brother. Seriously.

New comment by slopinthebag in "I think they are lying to you [video]"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:38:44 +0000

And saying coding is solved doesn't prove anything either.

New comment by slopinthebag in "I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video]"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:38:00 +0000

Perhaps, but people don't care that much about a bug with Instagram. Once critical infrastructure starts failing people will take notice.

New comment by slopinthebag in "I think they are lying to you [video]"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:32:56 +0000

If Anthropic has some of the best and most highly paid software engineers on the planet working on a simple program (terminal app) with virtually unlimited tokens for the strongest coding model, and they still ship a sloppy buggy mess, what does that say about the quality of code you are outputting?

A lot of you don't want to hear it, but you aren't doing better than Anthropic so unless your use case is ridiculously simple, Claude Code is the ceiling for what you're creating, and if what you're doing is at all complex, the ceiling is much much lower.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

slopinthebag — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:16:42 +0000

I did it in 3, but you need to hit a jump from the start over, and roll far enough to go through the arch on shot 2.