Arguing over whether we all die or we all don't cheapens the risk of the death of millions if/when wet-bulb temperature limits (> 35C,95F at 100% humidity) become routine in populated geographies.
I have written C code for several decades. I hate a priori, divorced from context, rules such as "never use goto". "Avoid premature optimization" as a rule is much worse. I used goto a few times in that timespan, surrounded it with rebellious comments, but largely the advice has more than weakly held for me. I don't think goto somehow liberates C developers and avails superior architectures.
Use of the word "plagiarism" is plagiarism itself. Culture and thought are deeply shared phenomena. Using a common language, such as English, to communicate is equally an act of plagiarism. You didn't invent these words -- you use them without attribution and without payment. To decry and malign the collective training of all available digitally represented thought and discourse by large language models as simple binary plagiarism is deeply ironic -- where did you pay for your own thoughts? I don't want to live in your pay-per-thought society. I want to live with the ethos "information wants to be free". En garde!
Interesting that Google is the counter target in your mind. Anthropic is the only company mentioned that doesn't release any open weight models -- as a so-called "public benefit corporation" this is arguably a glaring lack.
There is a difference with the very first line item, though minor:
"clojure --version" is available. True that transducers aren't going to be a part of this comparison.
I am very concerned, particularly if Anthropic and/or other frontier model producers begin to hit an inference performance ceiling, that Anthropic will use its safety scare tactics to lobby for the marginalization of the open weight model ecosystem. As the open models catch up, or become "good enough", they may amplify their open model hostility "to protect their moat". I see Mythos and Glasswing as cynical beginnings of this. Also note that Google, Meta, and even OpenAI have released open weight models and have nodded to the obvious research benefits they provide, whereas the Anthropic "Public Benefit Corporation" has done no such public benefit. The valuation and success of Anthropic coupled with its "trust us and no one else" culture may be dangerous for the legal survival of open weight models.
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