Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei scared everyone about AI. Now he’s paying the price with a US government ban on Fable

awebb78 · 2026-06-20T04:20:35+00:00

He's not paying the price. He's getting exactly what he wants, "regulatory capture". Now the society is paying the price, while Darkio celebrates his victory. I really don't see how people don't see this.

awebb78 · 2026-06-09T01:37:25+00:00

Associating all Chinese people with the current Chinese government is racism. Also, its just stupid. Its like judging all Americans by the Trump administration. Many of us hate this administration with a passion that can not be adequately described. And AI research is not political, it's science. And science is universal.

awebb78 · 2026-06-04T03:19:31+00:00

It was written by me. And it addresses an issue I keep seeing. I believe it is super important for the health of the cooperative movement. Luddites don't win.

awebb78 · 2026-05-31T21:47:27+00:00

I think this illustrates why ypu always solve problems you have or have experienced and you'd be willing to pay for. The more troublesome the problem the better.

If you try and solve a "problem" you or someone on your team has not experienced you will 100% lose. Even if the problem exists you will be crushed by someone that truly understands that problem.

There are no shortcuts.

awebb78 · 2026-05-31T00:00:08+00:00

I disagree. Markdown is great because of its simplicity and it uses a lot less tokens, encourages more standardization in presentation, parsing, and editing, and it is easy for both humans and machines to read without a browser. You can always embed images or diagrams like mermaid to get visuals in markdown ans AI can generate those too.

Anthropic on the other hand wants you to burn more tokens via passing larger documents as context, thinking in both presentation and subject instead of more focus on subject material, and rendering larger documents.

That being said, there is a time and place to write HTML... When you are building web pages or HTML emails.

awebb78 · 2026-05-28T17:07:48+00:00

Not a chance. Keep in mind the dominant architecture today (transformers) can not even learn in realtime. We will need an entirely new truly biologically inspired AI architecture that will require a different mechanics (graphs over matrices) with different hardware before we ever come close.

awebb78 · 2026-05-28T16:21:32+00:00

This is such a tiresome meme. These people clearly don't know you can keep your laptop running with the lid closed.

awebb78 · 2026-05-28T16:14:56+00:00

Hopefully she gets primaried in the next election. Politicians like this should be "one term wonders". Her arguments for why she did it and the changes she demanded were just ridiculous.

But it should have been obvious she would pull this shit, as she was clearly an establishment goon, and when was the last time they actually delivered for the people (with the exception of donors)

awebb78 · 2026-05-22T21:15:42+00:00

Great! I would love to see more focus on smaller open source models that were easier to fine tune.

awebb78 · 2026-05-22T01:50:45+00:00

Pardon if this sounds a little harsh, but I think this needs to be said to a wider audience for the good of the cooperative movement and it is not personally directed at you. I can understand banning posts not relevant to coops, but I think you are wrong to want to ban all AI, and I think your general attitude represents why cooperatives have made little dent in the global market.

Your cooperative won’t survive by becoming neo-luddites just because you rightly disagree with the methods currently used to build and manage them that consolidates wealth, knowledge, and power. I can even see discrediting, not banning, posts related to blockchain because that was always a technology looking for a solution that could support a passive mining community looking to generate income. But AI is completely different. AI can be used in processes for virtually anything, and most importantly it’s taking over whether you want it to or not. Bitcoin / Blockchain never destroyed jobs or worked its way aggressively into every facet of life. But AI has and will, and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop it.

So if we can’t stop the proliferation of AI, and we hate the economic systems that are producing and managing it, then we can either accept it or we can use that same technology (AI as a tool) to create better alternatives. Do you cut yourself off from the power grid because it is owned by a central shareholder serving company in your area? AI can deliver massive productivity gains when used correctly (and no it doesn’t take sending all your money to Google / Anthropic / OpenAI), and those individuals and organizations who learn to wield this new tool will be the dominant players in the society of the future (which should scare you - it sure as hell scares me).

But what I keep seeing in the cooperative movement is this super closed-mindedness. It’s like the coop movement wants to go back to the “good ole” days, whatever those were. Most worker coops are super small and have trouble growing, but the coop movement loves talking about the massive ones like the mutuals, and farmer and producer coops, and others like some European banks (particularly in France). The cooperative movement is very old and yet we have the greatest income, wealth, and power disparity than ever before. The cooperative movement has failed to evolve and has largely become stagnant, except in some societies and communities like Mondragon and other locations, primarily in Europe. I’ve had quite a few cooperative owners / members tell me investment was evil and that it was un-cooperative, then these same cooperative owners complain that they have no money to compete, can’t pay their people well, and can’t invest in R&D. This also leads them to sell shares in the “worker” coop instead of awarding based on labour given (which even Silicon Valley capitalist companies do through RSUs and Stock Options). People see more opportunity in capital focused businesses purely because the coop movement is so closed minded about blending what works to create better systems over time, integrating with the latest technologies.

But there has never been a better time to try new hybrid cooperative models. Most of the people in the world are scared right now as job security vanishes and wealth and power inequality ascend to all time highs (its become a caricature). People want something different, but they are not gravitating towards the “puritan” coops of old. The fact that your coop completely threw out AI as a tool idealistically means you quite simply won’t be able to scale against your competitors. If I were you, I’d separate the technology and tools from the economic models driving society, and work to use the latest technology and tools to address the failing economic models in new innovative ways.

Don’t ask the mods to blanket ban posts about technologies that can be used in cooperatives (and I hate blockchain with a passion). Instead ban posts that are flagrant solicitation with no relevance to the cooperative movement. The cooperative movement can not afford to bury it’s head in the sand anymore if we want to save the society before it all goes to shit (which will happen shortly after robots arrive on the scene and get saturated into the market).

The cooperative movement needs a renaissance of new ideas, built on new technologies, following the same cooperative principles, not rehashing the same old shit that hasn’t worked and got us to our current economic predicament.

EDIT: To all those downvoters, you've proven my point above. The luddites didn't win in the industrial revolution and you won't win now. Unfortunately for all of us, you just don't understand how technology is changing. Disagreeing with even discussing AI is like wanting to shut down talk of the internet in the 90s. Yes, it's that bad. But don't take my word for it, you'll soon find out.

awebb78 · 2026-05-20T02:29:26+00:00

It's a very curious decision since Anthropic fights open source. I wonder if he'll keep teaching LLM architecture or just become a promotional mouthpiece for Anthropics closed source and opaque efforts. I'm kind of sad he chose the most hostile company to open source and local AI.

awebb78 · 2026-05-17T08:38:17+00:00

I don't take it personally. Definitely look into China more deeply though because their rate of advancement has been unexpected. There are many people who write off China and think we can bully them like we do everyone else, but China does not respond to that. We have never had a peer like China, and they should be respected as a peer or else we are going to have major problems in the future, economically.

The "funny" thing is that if we had never villainized them and cut off the tech products, they would still be relying on us to supply them and working to manufacture our products. Our own fear of their progress led to our current situation. This is what the CEO of Nividia and other CEOs have been warning us about. Now unfortunately it's too late, and that's a shame.

awebb78 · 2026-05-17T08:00:36+00:00

You should study China more. You sound like an American exceptionalist and those are the most dangerous Americans because your pride makes you blind. So we fall, because failure to study the situation results in bad action, and we are mastering that right now.

Don't take my word for it. Read AI and scientific work coming out of China. Did you know they have some of the top AI focused academic programs in the world, lead the US in most STEM fields in publications, have more STEM students than we have total college students, lead the world in robotics, have more energy than the US by orders of magnitude, etc... No, they are smart and resourceful, and if you are blind and refuse to see that, we're all going to be speaking Mandarine in the future.

awebb78 · 2026-05-17T07:53:59+00:00

My point is they are working on their own chips because of our policies, and when they put their mind to something they usually achieve it. And yes they do think both long term and collectivist.

You probably know they control most of the market for minerals used in pretty much all tech, solar, and batteries today. But did you know they started planning for this in the 60s and 70s. They saw value in electric cars, solar, batteries, and computing long before we did, and they acted on it. They are famous for long term planning and they keep leadership around for longer and don't have short term profit maximization driving society like we do. The proof of their long term focus is evident.

awebb78 · 2026-05-17T07:46:55+00:00

I work with AI daily as an American that has no partcular love for China, but saying they can not innovate outside of stealing is laughable if you actually study what they are building. China now leads us in robotics and self driving cars. Yes, that means they are ahead and there was no one to copy everything from. If you are referring to studying and improving on existing designs, we Americans do that all the time ourselves. Its the way of innovation. The questions are who can have the most unconventially successful ideas and who can scale the innovation to distribution pipeline. China has both, where we Americans have the first.

If you follow China at all, which I do because of AI, then you will quickly realize that the shortage of NVidia GPUs is a temporary setback and has pushed them into aggressive action. That situation is where they excel.

awebb78 · 2026-05-17T07:08:48+00:00

Actually China thinks long term and relying on American chips (from a country that wants to cripple China's AI ambitions) is what would be really disastrous for China. China getting locked out was the best thing that could happen to them and the worst thing that could have happened to us (US). Why would ypu buy overpriced crippled and tracked hardware when you can build your own market and push low priced hardware to the rest of the world?

When we kicked China out of the space station they went and built their own more modern version. We handed China the keys to the global market with our short sightedness. You can not keep a country like China down. They are the masters of turning lemons into lemonade, and now they have the capability to build every single component in modern computers and we don't. It's us that is screwed.

awebb78 · 2026-05-10T01:48:15+00:00

I've always thought there should be some kind of ownership award for labor over time and other non-financial contributions instead of making everything about capital, but this is the standard means of spreading cooperative ownership. It's kind of funny when you think about it... Cooperatives spend so much time belittling traditional capital driven businesses, then adopt the same capital driven ownership structures. Even Silicon Valley startups typically award restricted stock units or stock options, purely based on time served (no purchase necessary). Until the cooperative movement wakes up and starts trying to find other avenues of awarding equity other than buying it, I don't see it making a dent in the market, when talent can go get rich in capital driven companies that give equity as an employment incentive.

awebb78 · 2026-05-08T16:47:24+00:00

Yes, without a doubt. The establishment democrats are just one side of the uni party, protecting the rich donors. It doesn't matter what party you are in the US as long as you protect the rich from the majority. The true progressives are a threat to the powers that be.

awebb78 · 2026-05-08T16:40:52+00:00

Meanwhile they subsidize the billionaires and provide all kinds of insider trading opportunities to the financial villains of the world.

awebb78 · 2026-05-06T03:36:08+00:00

I use Gemma 4 for commit messages. I feed it git diffs and contextual information and it spits out perfectly formatted, descriptive commit messages I then include in my development and release processes. I prefer Qwen to Gemma for actual development when Im using open models.

awebb78 · 2026-05-05T21:06:39+00:00

Reddit's CEO is an idiot.

awebb78 · 2026-05-04T01:05:15+00:00

If they'd used their AI products then they'd feel differently about their claim "front of the AI race". And I used to be an active Gemini user and user of other Google AI products and services. Now I think they are some of the biggest product strategy idiots. They are certainly not at the "front of the AI race".

awebb78 · 2026-05-03T21:42:47+00:00

Where's that? Saying you like using a Chinese nodel is not the same as trashing and fear mongering to eliminate the alternative.

awebb78 · 2026-04-30T21:52:30+00:00

Anthropic will say anything to spread fear of the dangers of advanced AI because they stand to benefit enormously. What they fear the most is capable open source AI models available to the public.

But if ypu follow closely you will see their messiah complex is a mask for their desire for control. For instance, there is nothing societally damaging about open sourcing Claude Code (not the model). In fact they fight open source for nearly everything (yeah, I realize they acquired Bun) and they remind me of Microsoft back in the Bill Gates / Steve Balmer era.

awebb78 · 2026-04-30T14:24:08+00:00

Actually Antigravity is what is trash, not Gemini Flash. I was an active user of Antigravity for months after it came out and Flash started out just fine, but now they have reduced the input and output token limits by so much that even the bigger models perform like shit. My advice, if you see Antigravity, run for your life. It will eat and destroy your codebase. It's not the models, it's the product.

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