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Yes, let take morality out of our daily lives as much as possible... That seems like a great categorical imperative and a recipe for social success

There's nothing moral about Anthropic. Especially to those of us who are not American citizens and to which Dario's pronouncements about ethics apparently do not apply, as stated in his own press release.

To me it just looks like a big sanctimonious festival of hypocrisy.


That's an incredibly uncharitable take on what I said. But that kind of proves my point.

Foist your morality upon everyone else and burden them with your specific conscience; sounds like a fun time.


What is the charitable way to look at it then?

How about assuming the positive intent of what I actually said? Not everything has to be a moral crusade. Let me use the tool without pushing your personal moral opinions on me.

The same person wringing their hands over OpenAI, buys clothing made from slave labor and wrote that comment using a device with rare earth materials gotten from slave labor. Why is OpenAI the line? Why are they allowed to "exploit people" and I'm not?

Taken to its logical conclusion it's silly. And instead of engaging with that, they deflect with oH yEaH lEtS hAvE nO mOrAlS which is clearly not what I'm advocating.


My most charitable interpretation of what you are saying is: Two wrongs make a right. If others exploit people that makes it an acceptable thing for me to do. No one can criticize me for doing a bad thing because others also do bad things. Is that what you are saying?

I genuinely cannot see how to interpret it in a way that is positive.


Yeah, why actually engage with moral issues when we can just defer to a status quo that happens to benefit me?

Can I use Docusign to provide my identity in Estonia online via my phone when I move there to buy a SIM card or open a bank account or file a document with the local authority?

Can I also send the Docusign document via Signal without Docusign knowing the person who signs it?

Because that is what the eIDAS is supposed to deliver on top of cryptographic validation of signatures.


Oh no… god forbid - adult content lol. Yes regardless of the content if the business is legal and they only changed an address that’s not a reason to have this level of shit support and no way to escalate and contact a human…


I don't agree with those policies but it's a possible reason for a financial services business to break a relationship if they discover incidentally that this guys business is breaking the law. Changes the blog post completely and the business info should have been included.

As a heuristic, using TransferWise is traditionally associated with Russian money laundering scams.


I believe the business is an ISP.


One of. Also runs card payment systems and business networking consulting. The blogger is focused on his small local market.


Any source for this comparison? Also did the EU buy it or said they will?


We said we would aspire to buying US gas. EU can't order member states around like that, and the member states themselves can't order private businesses who to buy from; US can't actually ship much more, even if it could it can't do so to us; and that's about 100% of our imports anyway (not just replacing Russian, replacing all of it) and the way global markets and fungible goods work is that it makes no difference who we buy it from or who sells it to us anyway.


It never said it will stop right away. It put a target and the process is called phasing out. The same way you migrate away from AWS. You don’t just stop your platform you move over while still using some AWS services.


Phase out buying directly and buy via India instead. Europe is a joke, we have completely failed Ukraine.


You do when that platform invades a sovereign nation, murders its people, and traffics its children.


I don’t record my conversations and if some lawyer tells me that they have a recording of me saying something I’d be more inclined to believe them. “Maybe I actually said that? Maybe I made a mistake? Maybe I don’t remember it now correctly?”

So I’d take it with a pinch of salt but the lawyers might be absolutely correct as well. I’m just saying I can see it as a tactic but maybe I’m a bit paranoid. Wondering if just I jumped to this conclusion?


It's not a bluff, it's basic practice to record calls when the interactions are high stakes. This was just a social media fight, but when the issue is malpractice or someone has died you can guarantee the lawyers will want recordings of those calls.

In states where recording requires consent you will get a pre-recorded message at the beginning of the call warning you that it's being recorded.


It absolutely is a problem to be dealt with. I understand what you are implying but it actually is a problem


Hey,

I'm the PM of LiveSync at Ably. We started working on this quite recently after we established a partnership with Mongo and they deprecated Realm. I'm looking to expand the product to mainly cover the sync functionality of Realm but the roadmap is not set in stone yet


It would kinda be funny if they did as they probably not want Apple to get fined as now they’d be shareholders


Would also be funny, if they were allowed to increase the penalty, based on how much they could have done with that money during that time. Opportunity cost.


The back taxes accrue interest - IIRC like €1.2B


Guess it’s time to follow the law of the land you operate in…


Having US corporations obey the laws of the countries they operate and do business in, is historically a foreign concept for them and the US government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company


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