Because it has moved way beyond protests. Everyone agrees that school shootings are bad. Legislation has been passed. Policies have changed. Schools have changed their security tactics. There have been years and years of meetings across the country with school administrators and boards talking about how to improve safety and navigate these issues, and then the schools themselves implementing new practices.
If you are looking around and saying that because people aren't waving sign on street corners, then nobody cares, then you have utterly missed a couple decades of dedicated efforts by many people working around these issues.
The fact that shootings still happen is tragic. But it is not because people are just shrugging and saying they don't care.
That is the only way it is legal. This was an export directive from the Commerce department, using authority granted by Congress to control exports of tech. If they just told Anthropic to shut down a model without invoking an emergency order of export, there would be no legal authority for such an order.
Keep in mind that for all the troubles and trauma caused by the current USA government, they are really good at manipulating the legal system to get their way. This is just another example of it.
Ok, but then the government's argumentation doesn't make sense? If the reason for shutting it down is that it's dangerous, only shutting it down for non US citizens doesn't solve the problem.
This sort of thing has been done before - for encryption - and many physical products like missiles. If you sell a missile to someone in the US they're accountable to US law but if you export one then US law stops at the border and nothing stops them firing it at Washington with impunity.
I know that sounds dismissive, but if you have so much billing going on that you are out-scaling Stripe's limits, surely you could afford to research other options?
QR codes are nothing more or less than a way to represent a chunk of data. They already are exactly what this site advertises. Sounds like they must have had a friend who got burned by a QR code that pointed to a URL where some content expired... but that doesn't have anything to do with the QR code itself.
AI does not do it better. It just does it faster. Sometimes that is useful. Sometimes that is harmful. You would want to learn to code to be able to tell the difference.
It depends on the type of task and the developer's level. For typical CRUD tasks, I'd say AI is often already faster and better than an average developer. But as soon as ambiguous requirements or architectural trade-offs appear, the situation changes
Speed itself also changes the equation. If I can try out five implementation approaches in the same time I used to spend writing just one, the overall quality of the project could very well improve.
> less than a decade experience.
Yeah, obviously I have less than a decade of experience, and the thing is I can't see how I progress. It's like AI upgrades people even if they are bad, so I don't know if I'm really good or becoming better or it's just AI. I'm practicing for a competition, they said we can use any AI we want. Later we had to use Gemma 3 and oh god, the scores lowered very, very much. The thing is I knew that I'd run into problems without AI, and since using it I forgot what I learnt, from important abstract and theoretical concepts to boilerplate code. But others were using it and our progress was monitored in time-limited competitions, and AI was really good at speeding us up so if you didn't use it you'd be the last person all the time.
I use coding assistants about 7 hrs a day in fields I know backwards and forwards and fields I know not at all.
Ai does NOT do better than a reasonable person. It gets about 80% of the way most of the time. And totally wrong and broken sometimes.
It just writes 10x faster. Once testing, bug fixing, testing again, and manually fixing the occasional huge fuck up im about 5x faster than I was. Things would be even better if I was a better programmer to begin with.
> Ai does NOT do better than a reasonable person. It gets about 80% of the way most of the time. And totally wrong and broken sometimes.
I agree, but you're talking about something you're clearly very competent in. That doesn't mean AI isn't as good as a relatively junior engineer.
It also says nothing about AIs of the future. 2 years ago AI could hardly do any tasks without a huge amount of human assistance. Now most SWE will tell you they don't even write code anymore. Let's give it another 2 years.
I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass.
Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.
> Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.
I made that realization last year and since then it's just been random project after random project each one requiring me to discover a new tool or method to do some aspect of the project "properly". I'll never be a plumber or electrician professionally but it's so rewarding to start from zero and learn something new that is tangible in the real world. That's the one AI use case I've walked away from feeling like I actually learned something.
The overlap between ceramicists and technologists is never zero. Part of my initiative to slowly replace every part of my house and home with things I've made... 1% progress is good, right?
I'm so glad i'm not the only one....well I have dreams and visions of a plan but the most i've done is a half baked Patreon and Substack scraper that only kinda works to capture my sunk cost of subscriptions I never used, a movie theater listing app that allows me to find classic movies that may get buried from the mass advertised slop, a custom sewn jacket that contains pockets for homecooked popcorn and locally grown fruit and well a 3-D printed sauce cup holder for all those sauce cups that I get from fast food restaruants.
Im slowly trying to extricate myself by cooking more from home only from local farmers and what I can grow from home (so far only one cucumber). After all, can you really build everything else if your own body molecules are being replaced by low quality things made by others?
I'll get around to 100% at some point before I die or I wont care anymore since i'll be dead: one of those outcomes is inevitable.
I'm ahead of you by a ways but your instincts are not wrong :) we have timber and plans to replace the flooring with logged and milled timber, sourcing clay from the property, making tomato sauce of the gods from home grown roma tomatoes. it's a lovely way to spend a half century I think.
You can do interesting things with microwave kilns these days, I wonder if they get hot enough for ceramics? They can melt copper, I believe, so they’d be in the ball park.
> It is frequently asserted that users prefer chatbots
Who is asserting that? Is there data to back it up? And which audiences are we talking about? Which products? Which industries?
As far as how I'd decide, I'd ask people. Data is a good thing to use when making decisions. Don't let data dictate all decisions, but don't just blindly guess either. Ask, measure, analyze, and think about the results. Then decide.
"token" is a word with many meanings. There is no "default", it simply is a versatile word. The author may have their own personal default understanding of the word, but that doesn't mean that everyone who speaks the English language agrees.
If you ride a car, you can arrive fast. Maybe. If you don't wreck the car. Or get hit by a bus. Or have your tire go flat. And your engine doesn't blow. And you don't get pulled over by the cops. And there is no construction on the roads. No accidents. No bridges washed out.
So yeah, your analogy works. Better than you intended.
If you are looking around and saying that because people aren't waving sign on street corners, then nobody cares, then you have utterly missed a couple decades of dedicated efforts by many people working around these issues.
The fact that shootings still happen is tragic. But it is not because people are just shrugging and saying they don't care.
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