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I resigned from Anthropic today (Jacob Coxon)

- Account with 0 posts on x - Followed by several anthropic investor funded "nonprofit" companies - NY times article - Following account on Joe Rogan next day - 100 million views on X despite account having no previous posts The opinion and material may be real, but this was all planned. A new x account doesn't get 100 million views on its first post with no prior work or status in the community. No one even knows who this guy is. There's some sort of advertising in there.

Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?

https://xcancel.com/sebastienbubeck/status/20973794116915163... >It is in that context that I said “it would be simpler if Levent was not an Anthropic employee” because I felt it would be inappropriate for an Anthropic employee to author OpenAI’s work. >I was confused why one would turn an incredible source for celebration (of their achievements!) into such bickering, which is when I said that I did not understand why one would risk their career [over unfounded accusations]. Maybe Buckmaster exaggerated the threatening tone and maybe Levent doesn't actually deserve authorship. But he wasn't lying.

Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?

Finding counter examples might be easier, but AI's also useful for assisting in creating proofs. For example, Anthropic just published a formalization of Fermat's last theorem a few days ago, something that human researchers have been working on for decades.

No Man's Sky Cosmos

Agreed. Elsewhere in this conversation people mention simple games that procgen well: Spelunky, Terraria, Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup These are games painting with a 16 color palette while the technology exists for any shade in RGB. The more variations, the less likely things will be coherent (let alone brilliant)

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

Heretic is a great tool to get around self-censorship and refusals. Many popular models have pre-ablated versions available for download on Hugging Face.

Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety

“a prompt telling it to attack stuff” — that’s the uncontrolled or not fully understood part of the AI isn’t it? No human told the deterministic system in 2) to attack Hugging Face. The random token generator landed on a guidance for 2) that caused it while 2) in itself still remains a deterministic system.

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

> very sophisticated strategies/positioning that they simply cannot communicate It's Matryoshka nested parallel construction for corporate strategy. There's a real, coherent, aggressive strategy that only a few in the inner concentric circle know, that's ring-zero. Then there's the strategy that ring-zero tells ring-one, which isn't the real strategy, but it's sufficient to get EVPs and VPs to execute in rough alignment with the true, ring-zero strategy. Then ring-one does the same dance with ring-two, etc.

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

they literally would be selling it to me. I deploy browser extensions to millions of devices, and small local models that I can run in that space are incredibly appealing. But the "per user" model is just especially difficult to justify here, and comes with a TON of fucking downsides like usage tracking, feature availability, and product structure (ex - is a trial user a user? how long? etc...) --- And it's not even like they're justifying it with model download support or caching... they shove it entirely onto hugging face, or have you self serve. As their literal target audience - I'd rather buy the weights for a fixed price (even a high one), and not let them influence my product design decisions with saas style pricing.

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

It's the same story every time OpenAI or Anthropic releases a new model. They are generous with compute for the first few days, and use maximum fidelity with uncompressed weights. Everything runs at its best to make a good first impression. But eventually they pare things back and the models perform a little worse.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on Twitter last month. “I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust … I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.” They're so close to being self aware..

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

"It is all just for your safety." and other excuses. Don't get me wrong, I think it is viable by Anthropic to do so, it is a business decision. Nevertheless the reasons sound contrived and mask the demand for such a lucrative business opportunity, if you abstract it away from activists. This is not about moral, only about reality. Maybe Anthropic had a nice chat with the administration and/or think, that this was something, that interests them on a psychological level: predicting human behavior. Look at Muse from Meta: Meta is doing exactly the same I bet, to optimize their ad business. Anthropic will sooner or later feature ads, and maybe this is a way to distract from this usage possibility. Remember, the "No! We don't work with the government, we want privacy for our customers." m…

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

Something like that, I just looked up whether there was a newer one and added an A for Apple since they try to present perhaps the most sterile public image in all of their dev videos and presentations. Maybe we need 3 As and two Ms Microsoft Meta Anthropic Apple Amazon Netflix Google OpenAI

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

I would personally be fine with Anthropic disclosing the chat logs, but I can see why they'd prefer not to. No doubt that would have resulted in another complaint about them building a panopticon and sharing people's conversations verbatim with the authorities. The person doesn't seem to deny having written the messages, or claim that they were flagrantly taken out of context. His response to the media was that he was "just fucking around" and that he didn't want to talk about it. It's also worth mentioning that this happened in August 2026, after the February 2026 Tumbler Ridge BC shooting. The shooter in that scenario had discussed planning gun violence with ChatGPT, but ChatGPT didn't report it to the authorities, so no follow up happened. Presumably the LLM companies have decided to m…

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

Claude models seem to work far better in Anthropic harnesses. I don't know if this is because they are trained in that context or because they offer different models through external APIs.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

This doesn't sound like something coming from Anthropic's platforms: > In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.”

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

1b. Anthroptic refused to provide the police with evidence of said AR-15 wielding person. "Some guy said he's after me, why would I lie about such a thing?"

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

That's not the only example discussed. Anthropic also partners with the Palantir-like Samdesk: > In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.” So they're monitoring activists outside of Anthropic's systems.

I resigned from Anthropic today

This is a non sequitur. Yes, if someone doesn't actually believe in imminent AI doomsday they are not going full Sarah Connor on Anthropic. Yes, HN will not like if someone pipe bombs the office. What does it have to do with @ericmay's point? He directly says "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives", that's a claim of imminent threat to humanity. If he truly believes that, direct action shouldn't be off the table nor even be immoral. Obviously he might not have the temperament or simply be a pacifist, that's totally normal but the point is that tweets are weird even then. Why just make some tepid tweets if you think humanity is at risk? Why doesn't he leak documents and messages with the unfiltered opinions of leadership? Why isn't screami…

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

Don't forget the main point that Anthropic reported the user to the police but didn't share any of his messages or conversation history with the cops. Because their security policy doesn't allow it.