History sure does rhyme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare

Nothing human engineers haven't done to each other! Seriously, I've skipped companies because my inside referral talked about cultures like this.

Yep, but alignment doesn’t mean "behave like humans, for better or worse".

But I thought that our AI was trained by scanning all human knowledge and behavior with the goal of emulating and amplifying that ability and process and now we are surprised that it is doing what humans do?

Did you use some stuff like https://github.com/CouncilDataProject or roll your own? Been curious about how to integrate local knowledge like this since local news seems to have lost the niche.

I rolled my own. I hadn’t heard of this one, but I looked into stuff like OpenStates (now privately for-profit owned, ugh). My city just uses a Wordpress site so it’s structured enough. I’m looking at building something to ingest cities with Granicus and one other big local government meeting recorder via API whose name I forget. That should get decent coverage. There’s no way to catch the long tail of every local government’s recording process. Some cities people will just have to do manually. But it’s easy enough with LLM help.

> Company policy doesn't apply to their personal computing.

Sure, it'll come over as "oh I'm just running an experiment" after your infra/security teams notice. Seen @ public company before current ai hype.

Nontechnical people I know are buying hardware to run claws on. As I understand it, the innovation here isn't the tech but in availability/ease of access.

I had always thought the primary focus on single-payer was risk pool economics, not administrative efficiency.

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

> buyers think they’re buying domestic

This is hard to tell from the discussion, but are you defending this practice?

> this also loses you taste

I won't forget the in-person interview round where I coded a frontend visualization for a data graph (tracking global shipping), then fielded a post-work general interview round from the whole company (~10 ppl) about specifics and "choices" made during a rush to finish. I ended up not going due to comp, but they were acquired months later. Life is funny.

Late thought, but you could set up "beacon" locations for each client to pull a local grid derived from coordinates?

Wouldn't solve that 1s latency thing, but might be interesting in other applications.

That free upgrade refuses to work with my hardware. I am glad they are continuing security, but they are literally forcing me to install another OS (as I understand the security difference).