Karpathy is talented and to me he always seemed like someone who would be against building something like skynet. Anthropic is lucky to have him.

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cute_boi 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Honestly, if Skynet were possible, Anthropic would probably build it first and claim they had to because OpenAI is bad.

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NitpickLawyer 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And then regulatory capture it to death. Seriously, Anthropic is top notch in their coding models, but they are not the good guys in the tech vs. product for humanity's sake debate.

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dwa3592 5 hours ago | parent [-]

yeah but i don't think there's any large org which is 'good guys'. Anyone who wants to become a monopoly or very very large is probably suffering from some sort of a neural condition (psychosis, if plural) which we will study 100 years from now. Right now they are rewarded but I think our little minds forget to take the negative externalities into account.

I am working on a short story on this topic which is set in 2100s, where most humans have internalized the concept of 'having enough' after the great conflict. But some specimen have started to show signs of this syndrome again, and neuroscientists and psychologists are grappling to understand where it originated from.

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amunozo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The difference is that Anthropic pretend they're the good guys, while the rest don't.

	▲	vavos an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's like the Mike prince arc in the show billions

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CamperBob2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah but i don't think there's any large org which is 'good guys'.

There are several. They're in China, releasing competitive open-weight models on a regular basis.

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scottyah 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anthropic has drawn lines with the most powerful organization in the world, that OpenAI capitulated on within hours for a small contract.

	▲	dwa3592 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		100% and that was bold and set a good example, at least from the outside.
	▲	actualwitch 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		...and then silently got back to talks with DoD [0] and gave them the Mythos model. Separately, they went back on their promise to only develop models that they can guarantee are safe [1]. I reckon considering which country they are HQ'ed in, building skynet is in their destiny. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/pentagon-anthropic-blacklist... [1] https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/anthropic-...

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goatlover 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Skynet is being built on the Ukrainian/Russian front lines.

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asdev 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you look at his recent content, I think he's gotten LLM Psychosis unfortunately

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ladberg 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hypothetically you take the leading expert of a field and say "they believe in their own field too much - far more than I do as a layman - and therefore surely must have psychosis."

Why should I trust that your assessment is correct? Is it likely to ever be correct in the case of a doctor/mechanical engineer/athlete/economist/whatever? So why do so many people insist that an incredibly intelligent AI researcher has fallen into some obvious trap?

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halfmatthalfcat 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Because we're paying attention? A lot of "smart" people are lost in the AI sauce, grandstanding that they are going to change the very fabric of society. Generally leading experts in other fields are not making the same hyperbolic, self-indulgent, embarrassing statements.

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ladberg 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At risk of being "lost in the AI sauce", do you seriously believe that AI isn't actively changing the fabric of society? Almost feels like we're living in totally different realities if that isn't clear-cut

	▲	halfmatthalfcat 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I still put my pants on the same way, eat the same food, talk to my friends and family the same way. I drive to the grocery store, pick out the same food and cook food at the same home. Talk to my kids, take them to activities and watch Bluey. The only time my reality has changed is when I spend time at a computer or on my phone and even then, its a fraction of the total time. So no, it's not a "totally different reality" for me.

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MattRix 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you considered that maybe the experts in a field are actually correct about that field?

	▲	thin_carapace 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		have you considered that at any second all our existing knowledge could be rendered redundant on the frontier these experts work in?

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