And heavily punish the users (which is the only way to actually win a war on drugs)

There is not that much difference between the state and a mafia. The fact that the mafia has successfully managed to keep out fentanyl shows just how much democratically elected states are failing their citizens. This outcome is not surprising.

It’s way easier to keep fentanyl out of drugs when you are distributing the drugs.

The government can’t regulate a black market.

The government can’t regulate a black market, but they could stop the charade of illegal drugs, convert the black market into a regular market, and regulate that. Suddenly you get less fentanyl overdoses, better outcomes for addicts (they're not criminals anymore), AND you remove the power of drug cartels (they'll still exist, but will compete with each other through less murder-y means, like any other capitalist company). Plus, stabilize a lot of third world countries where illegal drug production and export is a big part of the economy, which is what allows the cartels to fight and corrupt the state.

Or, just keep doing what they're doing. It's bound to work eventually, right? Drug cartels are definitely growing less powerful every year, the war of drugs is being won, rate of addiction is going down.

I'd rather we try than give up and make a deal with the enemy.

You would like to state to be in the business of permitting the sale of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, et al?

Or perhaps selling it directly?

Has this ever worked? Do you have any evidence whatsoever that this is a good idea?

Lot of democratically elected states are also good at "keeping fentanly out".

This is a bit of a straw man “do the ends justify the means” statement, with hints of anarchism read between the lines.

Western democracies haven’t really prioritized “war on drugs” (for lack of a better term) over the last probably 10ish years. Yeah there’s still funding and initiatives and some lip service.

Instead the focus has been largely infighting and major political factions fighting for political power in the next generation (“tech bros” political class for one)

So it’s no surprise state-sponsored (and just demand driven) drug trafficking into the US hasn’t received much action.

There is some hope though. With rare earth mineral access being a major national security priority, and many cartels controlling those areas in SA, the converging interests may produce some net positive. Background: https://youtu.be/q_n-74ifBZs?is=nw5g-mmPmKphGH2W

A war on drugs can only be won through heavy penalties on the users and the political classes refuse to come down hard on the users (themselves, their children) but rather come down hard on the dealers (poor people) or traffickers (foreigners). For this reason we never really had a war on drugs, just lip service towards one, hence a failure of government.

This is a false equivalence, which means equating two things based on surface similarities while ignoring key differences.

The Mafia keeping fentanyl out isn't a public service. It's a cartel protecting its own drug market, which says nothing about whether democratic states ( globally ) are failing their citizens.

perhaps they use this as the carrot to get you locked into their monthly plan over anthropic's.

First they’d have to let you sign up for a new 20x Pro account.

works great until they raise prices.

There's no difficulty in cancelling.

Funny how they talk so much about safety when most people don’t give a hoot about it, and actually have quite the opposite reaction

The only reason HN doesn't care about safety is because most people that used to write well-thought-out posts here have left.

Anyone rational that has spent a decent amount of time working in AI cares a lot about safety.

People aren't the target audience of that part of the post. They're hoping saying enough safety stuff will ward off the looming regulatory sledgehammer.

They actually want that to come protect their business model

Anthropic is one of the most valuable companies in the world. Their comms are designed to appeal to a very wide readership.

HN is a bubble that's mostly out of touch with what regular people use or care about.

In 2007, HN was convinced that nobody uses Microsoft products. In 2016, it was that Facebook doesn't have any real users and is dying. In 2026, it seems like nobody cares about AI safety and everybody wants to run local models.

A MacBook Pro is probably the best bang for your buck. I have a 64gb m4 max, but you’ll run decent models with half that ram I think.

However bad anthropic’s financials look I’m sure OpenAI’s look even worse

Plus that lawsuit from Apple might go spectacularly wrong.

Presumably there’s a future where your ai agent posts all your videos / pictures / comments on every platform you have so we get around the idea of X, for example, being the only one to receive posts?

If the government is stupid enough to write law that it cannot enforce when applied by all citizens (and not only those with means), then we should welcome anything which will bring about the demise of those laws.

Lets consider something like the right to take sick leave. There is no strict definition of what "sickness" is. It is something that YOU feel impacts your ability to work. Maybe a bad nights sleep, sore back, headache, runny nose, bad tummy, etc. There's no need to provide any amount of proof to an employer when taking a single day off sick, and they need to pay at least the statutory sick pay, many companies pay full.

Most people agree that this rule works well in practice. Most people don't take a sick day because they don't feel 100%, even when its within their rights. If everyone decided to take Monday off because they're sick, that would be possible within the law, there's no need to provide proof you're sick. Yet, if that happened, the country would grind to a halt.

Now ask yourself, how could you implement that without eroding someone's rights and without introducing more friction?

Sometimes, you just have to assume that people are honest and won't take the piss out of the system. Or you have to introduce friction to discourage the exercise of their rights. The friction for sick leave is that you usually have to notify your employer ASAP and that you may have to fill out a return to work form.

I guess in theory it can already run basically unnoticed on a MacBook Pro, and there are millions of them out there

20x related to the 5h limit only. Weekly seems to be around 10x, although they deliberately don’t give a number.

OpenAI is 20x on both limits

Is this official or based on people's reports?

it's clearly wrong, think it's realistically closer to 1.7x