We were up and out early to ride. Apparently summer is just about here. I really hate up and out, I like dawdle and drink coffee much better. Anyway, there was some cloud cover which really softens the sun's rays on one's flesh. See the yellow stuff? We're in the season of steenking yellow trees. Acacias are in bloom now, they're really full of pollen.
This evening, the remnants of the cloud cover gave us a small sunset.
February 26, Hilary Clinton testified about her knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Her knowledge was exactly zip. Didn't ride on the plane, didn't go to the island. They took six hours to accomplish this by asking the same questions repeatedly. In short, a woman was forced to testify in a closed-door deposition about the crimes of men who are not being forced to testify at all. She also had this to say in her opening statement. “I
did not dedicate my life to advocating for women and girls just so that
I could be lectured by a bunch of pedophile protectors.”
OpenAI (ChatGPT) has been chosen to do the work originally awarded to Anthropic (Claude). It's been said that the terms for each company were the same. Josh Kale has a concise statement of what's different. Everyone’s
saying OpenAI got the “same deal” Anthropic was banned for.
Read the fine print. They’re not the same:
On weapons:
Anthropic asked for “no fully autonomous weapons without human
oversight” = a human involved in the decision.
OpenAI’s deal says “human responsibility for the use of force” =
someone accountable, which can happen after the fact.
Oversight ≠ Responsibility. One requires a human before the trigger. The
other requires a name on the paperwork after.
On surveillance:
Dario said explicitly: current law hasn’t caught up with AI. The
government can already buy your movement data, browsing history, etc
without a warrant. AI can assemble that into a complete picture of your
life, at scale. That’s mass surveillance without breaking a single law.
Anthropic wanted protections beyond current law.
OpenAI’s deal says the Pentagon “reflects them in law and policy.”
That’s existing law as the safeguard, the exact law Anthropic said is
insufficient.
Same words. Different agreements. Read them carefully. As it turns out, Jared Kushner's brother is involved in the OpenAI IPO, and stands to make a ton of money from it.
Yesterday we bombed Iran and killed the Ayatollah. Iran retaliated. For some reason, Iran sent drones to Dubai and closed their airport and did a lot of damage. Israel killed a hundred or so school girls by bombing their school. Oil prices are already up. Who knows where this will end. Talk about something that was not necessary. Whether or not the US has a sufficient number of drone interceptors in now in question. What could go wrong?
Hoo-boy.
