Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by sejje on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:28AM
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I remember when we were having more or less this same conversation about the internet. It wasn't even that long ago, either.
"Open data, sharing, real-time communications leading to great progress."
Current AI should be compared to the internet, not to watson.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by bunderbunder on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:40AM
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Could you explain why? Because I just don’t see the analogy.
Openness and sharing is precisely why the Internet was so successful. Anthropic, by contrast, is a proprietary SaaS vendor with monopolistic ambitions that’s openly seeking regulatory capture and actively supports the swarms of AI bots that are killing what remains of the open Internet by driving everyone’s hosting costs up to an unsustainable level.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by sejje on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:42AM
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Well, I said we should compare current AI to the internet.
You then compared Anthropic to the internet, and said you don't see the analogy.
I hope that helps.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by bunderbunder on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:45AM
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You still haven’t explained what you think the analogy is.
I wasn’t using analogy in the “literary device” sense. I was using it in the “a particular kind of rhetorical device” sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
The most interesting difference between then and now is that we didn’t have tech enthusiasts getting quite so invested in the conversation. Possibly because we were all familiar with IBM’s decades-long history of shipping overhyped and underwhelming products.
Unfortunately we seem to have yet to realize that that’s a habit that’s endemic to the tech industry. Instead we still see it as thousands of isolated cases that, only by sheer dumb coincidence, happen to comprise the bulk of the tech industry.