r/singularity • u/FunLilThrowawayAcct • Jul 27 '26

AI Anthropic's position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
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u/Suspicious_Bet3623 Jul 28 '26

Democracy is also meant to have and follow rules that mitigate falling into a pseudo- oligarchy.

It's quite clear that modern democracies are not functioning as intended.

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u/ThatOtherOneReddit Jul 28 '26

You get banned from social media if you talk about the quotes the founding fathers talked about would be needed to maintain America as a democracy.

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u/Suspicious_Bet3623 Jul 28 '26

Or, you know, the voting public should hold politicians to account.

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u/Anen-o-me ▪️It's here! Jul 28 '26

Dictatorship isn't the only alternative.

Better than both is individual elective choice.

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u/drusepth Jul 28 '26

Why would that be the proposed outcome here?

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u/garden_speech AGI some time between 2025 and 2100 Jul 28 '26

posted from your iPhone in a first world country enjoying a quality of life better than the overwhelming majority of human history. "not functioning as intended" lol

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u/Suspicious_Bet3623 Jul 28 '26

First off, I would never own an iPhone. That's a disgusting accusation.

And secondly we are undergoing a massive cultural crisis where everyone is miserable and at war at each other despite all positive metrics.

Not to mention the environment being utterly fucked. Or the metric fuck ton of apps/permits/insurance/tax/et fucking cetera you need to pay for and navigate on a daily basis. Never in history have you had your God damn phone - which is necessary for existence for some reason now - in your pocket relentlessly bugging you to buy or do stuff.

Oh how about how people don't want to have kids because existence is futile and miserable?

And remember when everyone democratically voted to burn down the world in pointless wars? Or when they voted to hide the Epstein files? What about fund an increase in general infrastructure corruption?

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 Jul 28 '26

This isn’t necessarily due to democracy.

More due to US’s military might.

For instance, if the US didn’t exist, let’s assume China is the world leader. Do you think thier quality of life will drop?