This is not true. You are the product whether you are paying or not.

If the company thinks they can make money by selling your data/attention/access, they will do so. Paying them does not stop them from monetizing you.

These new paid tiers will be slowly enshitified just like most modern paid plans.

FWIW, this is the Fallacy of Composition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition

I recently published an article about the Luddites. If you look at their actual demands, they were not anti-tech. They were labor activists. Life got much, much worse for most people in the industrial revolution until the laws they advocated were finally implemented.

https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-real-luddites-would-have...

The Luddites were part of a larger labor movement that spanned multiple industries.

I recently published an article about the Luddites. If you look at their actual demands, they were not anti-tech. They were labor activists. Life got much, much worse for most people in the industrial revolution until the laws they advocated were finally implemented.

https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-real-luddites-would-have...

1) If theses companies get enough points on their license, their license is revoked. Not just for that vehicle, but for all of their vehicles. (The number of points would need to be adjusted for number of miles driven.)

2) Senior executives could be held criminally liable for vehicular manslaughter the way a normal drivers are. A death doesn't mean someone is going to prison, but their would be a police investigation. If an exec decided to ship a product with a known bug that lead to someone's death it should be treated with the same seriousness as a drunk driver killing someone.

But recently there is one big exception!

I can listen to AI-generated instrumental jazz or blues in the background, and it does not distract me after the first few seconds. I think it's because the music doesn't go anywhere. It's just kind of noodling.

As a musician, I feel kind of bad listening to AI music, but it is amazing in this use case.

There is this ongoing flack in our "billionaire-said-a-thing" news where billionaires imply that their tech will result in huge benefits that will be delivered by someone else once they amass their fortunes.

Musk is the most obvious. He publicly proclaims his mission to create technology that ensures we all live better, healthier lives, while routinely violating labor, safety, and environmental laws and insisting his employees work 60-hour weeks with minimal vacation in order to give him a shot at becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

I wish the press would push back once in a while.

It's an interesting parallel to AI today, where criticism of the business practices of AI firms tends to be written of as fear of new technology by people who will be "left behind".

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It's not binary.

People are absolutely willing to sacrifice some of their freedoms to save lives. That's why we have speed limits, seat-belt and helmet laws, automobile safety regulations, DWI laws, etc.

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This only applies to jobs that require Japanese proficiency. The vast majority of engineering and specialist visa will not be affected.

It's not unreasonable that a person applying for a job that requires language proficiency be able to demonstrate said proficiency.

In the end I decided that the concrete benefits from giving Anthropic access to this kind of data outweigh the potential risks. Granted, they might be banking on me making this exact, naieve calculation, but still.

About 16 years ago I was going through some rough times, and I started a daily habit of writing down anything that happened that made me feel happy, connected, or worthwhile and noting why it did so.

Even after life improved, I enjoyed this practice so much that I made a Sunday ritual of looking back on the week and writing down all the little magic moments in my life.

I turn 60 in a few months, and have been wondering what I should be doing next.

I asked Claude to analyze over 16 years of these weekly notes and to highlight any common themes and patterns found in the things that have made me feel happy and fulfilled over the years and to illustrate those themes with specific examples.

The results are a bit too personal to share here. They weren’t surprising exactly, but reading them over was an emotional experience. In the end, it turned out that Claude’s analysis of what really made me fulfilled was better than my own.

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The Nasdaq100 is more complicated. SpaceX's 5% would be counted as about 25% of their total market cap for indexing.

AI led to not only longer hours overall, but also a shift from development to bug fixing and a 19.6% increase in out-of-hour commits. So longer hours, less interesting tasks, and more weekend work.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-us...

Lobbying ensures such proposals never gets far, but it seems like a common sense way of ensuring that these funds subsidize people rather than corporations.

It seems that LLMs always do the enjoyable work and leave us with the drudgery.

It was supposed to do the dishes while we create art and write poetry, but it turns it gets to create the art and poetry while we wash the dishes. AU gets to write the code while we have to review it and fix the bugs.