What I'm certain about is that they're doing it for simple economic reasons, no one will trust them if they don't. I suppose they could be caving behind the scenes but the odds of getting caught eventually are high...

That's backwards. Religion is never a good reason for anything, but revenge can send a message that what you did was not OK and you shouldn't do it again

Good thing they BYOD so all that data is so easy to exfiltrate.

Because the "native" Hawaiians "displaced" (or ate) those people when they showed up in ~300 CE.

People learn in different ways, no doubt it makes a difference for some people but not for others. But that only illustrates the point that no single recipe will work for everyone.

Fuck that indeed, and Apple is clearly doing the right thing here on all levels, but they can't just give such a trivial response because this is a real court, not the court of public opinion...

I take native Hawaiian religious objections seriously. These are people who take a fatalistic "Pele will take what she wants, it's pointless to try to stop her" attitude toward lava flows running over their houses that seems utterly insane here in Iceland. We'll buy up every available water pump on the international market and walk on active-flowing lava fields to save a harbour for a couple thousand people. We'll keep running tourist sites right next to a volcano that erupts every couple months by building multi-story-high berms around it with giant bulldozers and cooling anything that tries to overtop to make the berms even higher. And it totally works . But Hawaiians will sit back and watch incredibly slow-flowing flows with easy diversion paths take out everything they hold dear. At best they'll point to some primitive failed attempts in like the 1940s as a reason to not try, but then when pressed, it often comes back to: "Pele will take what she wants to take."

Another example: geothermal drilling on the Big Island. Massive protests. Massive resistance, way beyond the token NIMBY resistance here. Meanwhile Hawaii continues to generate most of its electricity from oil, at great cost. Hawaii is the only other place (outside of Iceland) to have accidentally drilled into a magma chamber. In Hawaii they treated it as a major incident and immediately shut down the well. When we did it? Our reaction was, "WOW, we can produce REALLY hot steam from THIS well!", made it into a production well, and started planning to drill more.

I guess one major difference here is that in the early Icelandic cosmology, volcanoes weren't the product of a high-ranking creator goddess, but rather, Surtr, who was practically a demon and was fated to destroy the world. It's good to resist Surtr!

Except his complaint is not.

Yes, it literally was. The main public complaint of the weavers was that they spent their entire life learning their art, and then their bosses come in with a machine that they teach to replicate the patterns that they developed, churn out cheap "slop" versions of them, and fire them.

And here we're talking about profits, despite their huge scaleup expenditure. Theirs and OpenAI's margins on serving inference are ~40%.

It's almost impossible for a company undergoing a massive scaleup rate to turn a profit, let alone growing 10X annualized for 3 1/2 years running, but Anthropic pulled it off.

I made someone big mad by suggesting we could discuss topics related to the primary subject as we were already doing in this thread. Rent free!

Tell us you don't know how threaded discussion boards work etc etc

They are the subject of discussion, so clearly people do care, and I'm not impressed by any moving of the goalposts or any other logical fallacies.

I don't believe it for a second. They don't have such a feature in place now. They're going to enable trading and then not pull the rug out? That doesn't sound like Microsoft.

Even worse than that, it's probably only because they had a bunch of chips that wouldn't bin out as higher spec parts, and they wanted to use them up, so they will probably do a rugpull sooner or later.

Thinking is what you were pretending to do. Nobody thinks that the connections don't go to anything. You made that up in order to feel smart, but since literally nobody is as stupid as the person you made up in your head to compare yourself to, in fact that's just pathetic.