Comment by hobom

11 hours ago

They have such a trusted access program. "Life Sciences Verification Program: The LSVP is designed so that life sciences professionals can use Claude Mythos 5.1 with safeguards designed for professional research and development activities (while all other safeguards remain in place). In partnership with the US government, we have enrolled our first participants, and we plan to expand access to this program to the broader life sciences community." https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1

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jiggawatts  9 hours ago

These "access gates" and export controls are going to look hilariously quaint in a few years.

It reminds me of the export controls on PlayStation 2 consoles because it was deemed that 6 gigaflops was a "dangerous" amount of computer power, and it couldn't be allowed to fall into the hands of opposing militaries: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-17-fi-20482...

Now the phone in my pocket does 2,500 gigaflops on battery power, and nobody seems interested in banning its export because of that.

  • r3trohack3r  5 hours ago

    To be fair, my understanding of these arguments is that they’re about deltas and not about raw numbers.

    I don’t agree with them, but I don’t think it was the raw compute power as much as it was maintaining the _delta_ in compute power.