The term for this is ethical consumerism or conscious consumerism, defined as purchasing products that align with moral, social, or environmental values, acting as a form of "voting" with one's money.

Virtue signaling takes place wherever changes in group behavior are required by changes in conditions but calling it just virtue signaling is reductive. People are moving off of US services because of the behavior of the US government and US citizens.

Flash should have transitioned into an authoring tool for SVG + CSS + JS but it just took a knee because so many people hated flash for all of its warts by the time SVG and Canvas moved vector graphics rendering to the browser. Flash was a real pain the ass for most web users and Web 2.0 technologies did kill it.

> Flash should have transitioned into an authoring tool for SVG + CSS + JS

Didn’t it? IIRC, Adobe had such a tool at some moment, and part of it seems to (somewhat) live on [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex:

“Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, is a software development kit (SDK) for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich web applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. […] Adobe donated Flex to the Apache Software Foundation

[…]

In 2014, the Apache Software Foundation started a new project called FlexJS to cross-compile ActionScript 3 to JavaScript to enable it to run on browsers that do not support Adobe Flash Player and on devices that do not support the Adobe AIR runtime. In 2017, FlexJS was renamed to Apache Royale. The Apache Software Foundation describes the current iteration of Apache Royale as an open-source frontend technology that allows a developer to code in ActionScript 3 and MXML and target web, mobile devices and desktop devices on Apache Cordova all at once”

[1] I may be wrong though. It’s not easy figuring out what Flash code ended up in which of Adobe’s Flash-like products over time.

I think the problem might actually be with reenforcing the red lines. The events of the last few weeks and this new deal only make sense if Anthropic was trying to find out how Palantir and the Pentagon had circumvented their restrictions to attempt to reenforce those restrictions like company actually concerned about the misuse of their product. OpenAI most likely came in with assurances that they wouldn't attempt to reinforce their restrictions.

Isn't the story here that the DOD is pressuring Anthropic and others to enable their AI for this specific use and for now Anthropic and others are saying no while the DOD threatens them with penalties.

We desperately need real AI safety legislation.

AI safety legislation is for the masses, not the government. Eventually they will get full AI safety by banning all general purpose computing. All apps must exist within walled garden ecosystems, heavily monitored. Running arbitrary code requires strict business licensing. Prison time for illegal computing. Part of Project 2025 playbook.

No. I'm suggesting there should be AI safety regulation to limit how AI can be used by the government. It's new tech and it pays to be cautious and restrict usage in areas like nuclear missile launch and domestic surveillance.

Regulation is also for the government. If some morons stop to follow the constitution they stop being your government.

Doesn't this run into the same bottleneck as developing AI first languages? AI need tons of training material for how to write good formal verification code or code in new AI first languages that doesn't exist. The only solution is large scale synthetic generation which is hard to do if humans, on some level, can't verify that the synthetic data is any good.

In the US they also get scanned and stored.

My advice: There's always at least one crypto scammer telling you to hold through the dip.

I hear there’s always money in the banana stand.

Given the choice between a 2000 acre banana plantation and 400 bitcoin. I would choose the banana plantation with full confidence that I would get a better return from bananas over the next 20 years.

What can it cost, $5?

My advice... Take a time machine back to 2009-2012 & only invest %100.

Otherwise it's too late.

I agree. Agentic use isn't always necessary. Most of the time it makes more sense to treat LLMs like a dumb, unauthenticated human user.

Mississippi? I bet it's a flyover state with a tiny sliver of road that sees massive trucking volume.

It's gonna be California (but I'm guessing, not sure). Other states just defer to federal regulation.

That they don't put the state on blast sort of points to the big cost not being entirely real (where they either think they can induce regulatory change or the number of tests that is needed to sell the systems is quite a lot less than the number of tests that would be needed to allow 100% of the market to use their system).

mississippi doesn't make people do certifications lol. unless you drive a hybrid, then you pay the hybrid tax.

Eh. Discovering how neurons can be coaxed into memorizing things with almost perfect recall was cool but real AGI or even ASI shouldn't require the sum total of all human generated data to train.