Trump needs a plentiful supply of cabinet members less competent than himself. They make him look better, and can be fired as distractions from loosely-related problems.
"What were we thinking? We tried to replace skilled people with chatbots that could write text or code with good spelling and grammar, but didn't understand anything. That meant they could do work that was pointless anyway, but creating anything that was new and complicated that way was pretty much impossible."
"In any case, it only looked cost-effective while the chatbots were being subsidised by venture capital. Once the prices were increased to make them profitable, the only organisations that kept on using them were the ones who had no choice, having got rid of too many staff. Few are still around."
So it’s a dated Chinese phone, slathered with Trump’s name, gold paint, and an incorrect depiction of the U.S. flag — that’s a year late, not particularly secure, and pre-loaded with propaganda (Truth Social).
Those are the values that Trump attributes to America. And he was re-elected. The USA, as a whole, has not repudiated these values. and I doubt it ever will. Less obvious corruption has been the way it did business for generations. Trump just means the country no longer gets credit for aspirations.
Most people don't have coherent motivations for things that are based on emotions like fear or disgust. Because they have a vague feeling that they ought to be able to explain their motives, they embrace conspiracy theories.
Modern communications, including, but not limited to, social media allow a single conspiracy theory to spread to millions of people. Politicians embrace those theories to gain support. And then you have Trump and RFK Jr in power.
Trump is, fundamentally, a confidence trickster, one of the most accomplished ones of modern history. Even now, there seem to be some Republicans who hope to gain from backing him against their vestigial consciences. They're going to be very disappointed.
I've been avoiding saying that for months, in the hope that nobody else would bring it up.
There's a fundamental thing that Trump, RFK Jr, and just about all of their followers are missing. Human life isn't naturally safe, comfortable and prosperous. We've built up a lot of complicated systems to make it that way. They aren't super-robust because their designers didn't think anyone was stupid enough to deliberately mess them up. However, because people have come to just accept them, idiots are trying to steal the money that pays for them, unaware of the consequences.
If he does, he's siding with lawbreaking some more, and a few more followers will be scraped off. If he doesn't, something that anyone with brains knew years ago becomes clear to a few more followers: Trump has no allies. He only uses people. Associating with him will only harm you in the long run.
It'll be broken up for parts, I expect. The database business is worth buying, some of the "enterprise applications" likewise. The cloud business may be worth more in the hands of a company that isn't trying to shake all the small change out of its customers' pockets, but may have too many liabilities to be buyable.
Oracle Linux and the Oracle Solaris business will cease, and Java is already mostly in the hands of the community.
". . . you cannot chastise him publicly for this absurd silliness without the argument equally applying to His Royal Arseness Himself."
On the contrary, double standards are the rule in the Trump Junta, along with foolishness. We may well be seeing someone fool enough to think that "writing" in the President's style is the most powerful form of argument available.
That is my suspicion. It could also be that the "anonymous" mode is leaky.
If Kelsey Piper passed some unpublished samples to someone else, who then asked Claude 4.7 who their author was, that would be a far stronger check.
One of the reasons current "AI" looks powerful is that few of the people writing about it understand the scientific method.
The US voted for economic and demographic suicide. It's interesting, as a citizen of an ex-superpower, to observe the variations on the process of self-destruction. The US doesn't even have the excuse of spending all its wealth defeating Nazis< Instead it's closer to letting the Nazis run off with the wealth.
Presuming this is an LLM, it does not have "knowledge." Explaining more clearly what criteria you gave it might get you somewhere. As it is, you look like yet another person who has mistaken "doing approximately what I asked for" for "understanding me andacting on my request."
See Pivot to AI's take on this.
Also consider that running other tech companies' proprietary software through Mythos amounts to providing training data for Anthropic, and parts of it will be reproduced in Claude Code output.
Another bit of the pendulum swing.
German court finds Google liable for errors in AI Overviews
So why not just get rid of him?
Trump needs a plentiful supply of cabinet members less competent than himself. They make him look better, and can be fired as distractions from loosely-related problems.
. . . the ongoing declassification of UFO-related files.
The future, looking back on today
"What were we thinking? We tried to replace skilled people with chatbots that could write text or code with good spelling and grammar, but didn't understand anything. That meant they could do work that was pointless anyway, but creating anything that was new and complicated that way was pretty much impossible." "In any case, it only looked cost-effective while the chatbots were being subsidised by venture capital. Once the prices were increased to make them profitable, the only organisations that kept on using them were the ones who had no choice, having got rid of too many staff. Few are still around."
“made with American values in mind”
I doubt RFK Jr *has* a coherent motivation
Most people don't have coherent motivations for things that are based on emotions like fear or disgust. Because they have a vague feeling that they ought to be able to explain their motives, they embrace conspiracy theories. Modern communications, including, but not limited to, social media allow a single conspiracy theory to spread to millions of people. Politicians embrace those theories to gain support. And then you have Trump and RFK Jr in power.
Politicians are really bad at spotting confidence tricksters
Trump is, fundamentally, a confidence trickster, one of the most accomplished ones of modern history. Even now, there seem to be some Republicans who hope to gain from backing him against their vestigial consciences. They're going to be very disappointed.
"And when its attorneys came to this Court to explain their conduct, the senior attorney . . . sat silently by . . ."
I'm struggling to see why that "senior attorney" wasn't having to defend himself against an on-the-spot charge of contempt of court?
Tetraethyl Lead
I've been avoiding saying that for months, in the hope that nobody else would bring it up. There's a fundamental thing that Trump, RFK Jr, and just about all of their followers are missing. Human life isn't naturally safe, comfortable and prosperous. We've built up a lot of complicated systems to make it that way. They aren't super-robust because their designers didn't think anyone was stupid enough to deliberately mess them up. However, because people have come to just accept them, idiots are trying to steal the money that pays for them, unaware of the consequences.
Jail Fox and Cavanaugh, see if Trump pardons them
If he does, he's siding with lawbreaking some more, and a few more followers will be scraped off. If he doesn't, something that anyone with brains knew years ago becomes clear to a few more followers: Trump has no allies. He only uses people. Associating with him will only harm you in the long run.
Oracle's predictable fate
It'll be broken up for parts, I expect. The database business is worth buying, some of the "enterprise applications" likewise. The cloud business may be worth more in the hands of a company that isn't trying to shake all the small change out of its customers' pockets, but may have too many liabilities to be buyable. Oracle Linux and the Oracle Solaris business will cease, and Java is already mostly in the hands of the community.
Boycott Sony
I've been doing that since the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal. I'm not missing them, because they don't produce anything I want.
Re: Had a good laugh.
". . . you cannot chastise him publicly for this absurd silliness without the argument equally applying to His Royal Arseness Himself." On the contrary, double standards are the rule in the Trump Junta, along with foolishness. We may well be seeing someone fool enough to think that "writing" in the President's style is the most powerful form of argument available.
That is my suspicion. It could also be that the "anonymous" mode is leaky. If Kelsey Piper passed some unpublished samples to someone else, who then asked Claude 4.7 who their author was, that would be a far stronger check. One of the reasons current "AI" looks powerful is that few of the people writing about it understand the scientific method.
"A firearms blueprint detection algorithm would need to identify every possible firearm component . . ."
Haven't the AI boosters claimed they can do that yet?
You can give this stuff up, you know
I haven't possessed a TV since 1989, nor watched TV in other ways. Every year, that looks a better and better decision.
The US voted for economic and demographic suicide. It's interesting, as a citizen of an ex-superpower, to observe the variations on the process of self-destruction. The US doesn't even have the excuse of spending all its wealth defeating Nazis< Instead it's closer to letting the Nazis run off with the wealth.
"knowledge that I had been out all day and wanted ..."
Presuming this is an LLM, it does not have "knowledge." Explaining more clearly what criteria you gave it might get you somewhere. As it is, you look like yet another person who has mistaken "doing approximately what I asked for" for "understanding me andacting on my request."
"environmental crimes, public corruption, financial fraud, cyberscams, civil rights violations"
The Trump "administration" wants to keep its own people safe while they engage in those activities.
There are other takes on Anthropic's hype...
See Pivot to AI's take on this. Also consider that running other tech companies' proprietary software through Mythos amounts to providing training data for Anthropic, and parts of it will be reproduced in Claude Code output.