The uncomfortable part is that each step is usually justified by a real use case

The funny part is that "put your browser profile on a ramdisk" used to sound like an obsessive performance tweak, and now it starts to look like a privacy mitigation

What stood out to me is how little of this is really new to Silicon Valley

If a model like that exists behind closed doors, we're unlikely to know from press releases

The interesting failure mode here is that the defensive side needs access before the offensive side starts using the capability

The wholesale spread makes batteries look obvious, but I'd be careful about extrapolating from today's arbitrage. If enough batteries get built, the spread they rely on compresses

This sounds less like a dispute about "the mission" and more like a dispute about who should have controlled the mission. The nonprofit/for-profit structure is messy, but so is the idea that putting OpenAI under Tesla would somehow have preserved its independence

This is a good reminder that encrypted and end-to-end encrypted are very different promises

This is a lot less strange if you think of the robot as participating in ritual rather than "having faith"

45 is painfully young