I wouldn't necessarily expect kicking out all of the existing maintainers of the tools to break everything in four months, but I also wouldn't necessarily trust that the tools are going to continue working well indefinitely with an entirely new set of maintainers and no handoff (because of the previous maintainers being kicked out).
I was satisfied with Tuareg + Merlin for OCaml development in Emacs, it just worked for me and didn't break when I upgraded packages, but yes, this being from bbatsov is a strong incentive to try it out. My only concern is that it uses tree-sitter, which I try to avoid because of the messiness of the JavaScript ecosystem.
I think tree-sitter's relationship with JavaScript is entirely syntactic. You don't need any JS runtime installed to write grammars, because technically tree-sitter CLI already has a JS runtime included and using that it converts your grammar first to an intermediate JSON format, then it generates parser code in C. And then this C code gets compiled into a shared library, which is what editors like Emacs use, so to use tree-sitter modules you definitely don't need a JS runtime either.
Contracts expire and can be renegotiated, or even reneged on if you are willing to accept the consequences (which you may see as preferable to enabling wanton murder)
We've banned the other account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, but - WTF? I don't want to ban you because it doesn't look like you have a habit of posting like this, but please don't do this kind of thing here again.
Although in the context of the parent comment, majority of Googlers probably aren't working on things directly related to controversial topics, instead they are probably working on mundane and non-external facing projects like "how do I migrate my libraries from this deprecated dependency to this other shiny new thing".
Why is there any controversy about defending one's nation being "good" or "bad"?
I can not believe what I am reading here, and how the single comment supporting defending one's country is so heavily downvoted. Qatar has poisoned Western online communities such that all defence of the United States is considered taboo? I don't even live in the US and I am frightened by what I see here.
Oh I believe it’s important to defend the country, but not because it’s a popular opinion. I dislike any statement that believes truth is based on consensus.
The controversy isn't about defending one's country, it's about you and the parent comment author assuming what this is all about without reading the article.
The core of the issue about autonomous use of AI in mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous use of AI in automated weapons that make kill decisions. Anthropic is perfectly fine with working with the War Department and "defending one's nation".
But they are not okay with their AI being used to make a mockery of the 4th amendment and making automated kill/no-kill decisions about actual human lives.
After reading the article this doesn't seem like a good choice for the US. It doesn't even seem very great for Denmark either. The US is vast and has plenty of people who live very remotely compared to Denmark, with the post office as one of the few reliable links to the outside world. There's also people who rely on the USPS for prescriptions which would be seriously hurt if all mail suddenly had a profit motive applied to it.
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