AI Also Lowers the Cost of Organizing Harm
Reading Anthropic's September misuse report through the economics of agent workflows, the limits of account bans, and the gap between observed activity and proven harm.
Reading Anthropic's September misuse report through the economics of agent workflows, the limits of account bans, and the gap between observed activity and proven harm.
An analysis of an AI-energy podcast: the value of getting power on time, the limits of flexible computing, and who carries the risk when infrastructure outlasts demand.
读 Anthropic 九月滥用报告,聊 agent 为什么能让小团队持续做复杂的坏事,以及模型拒绝、人工审批和账号封禁各自能管到哪里。
从《十分吸引》的电力访谈出发,聊按时通电为什么变贵,异步 agent 能给电网多少弹性,以及谁承担基础设施等不到客户的风险。
From a glass fiber pulled over an alcohol burner in 1976 to seven of the world's top ten module vendors, China built its optical industry in reverse order — cable first, then equipment, then modules, and only now the chips at the top. The module business is won; the high-end silicon above it still isn't.
Pluggable, LPO, NPO, CPO, OIO — five packaging schemes that are really one siting problem, how close to the office tower to build the courier depot. The optical DSP is the module's brain and its biggest power draw, and it sits at the center of the fight.
Kevin compresses nearly two centuries of wired communication into three shifts. Copper losing to glass was settled by physics; the fifty years since have been the boundary between them moving toward the chip, one step per speed generation.
Networking has its own Moore's law, and AI's appetite for bandwidth outruns it. Copper's loss climbs with frequency while fiber's loss ignores speed but charges a fixed conversion toll — the two cost lines cross, and every generation the crossover slides toward shorter distances.
The blinking box on your wall is a slow optical module. The 800G ones filling switch faceplates in an AI cluster are the same symmetric signal chain, just run a few dozen times faster.
从赵梓森用酒精喷灯拉出第一根光纤,到光模块全球前十占七席,中国是先做光纤光缆、再做设备、再做模块,如今在攻最上游的光电芯片。模块这块做起来了,最上游的高端芯片还没做下来。
可插拔、LPO、NPO、CPO、OIO,五种封装方案其实是同一道选址题,快递站建在离写字楼多近。光模块的大脑 ODSP 是功耗大户,也是这场仗的争议中心。
Kevin 把一百多年通信史压成三次跃迁,铜到光的胜负是物理性质写定的,之后五十年光的边界一直往芯片端推,推到今天的机柜边上。
通信界也有自己的摩尔定律,AI 的带宽需求比它还快。铜线的损耗跟着频率往上飙,光纤的损耗和速率没关系但要交一笔固定的转换费,两条线一交叉,光模块要占的就是交叉点右边那段。
你家墙上一闪一闪的光猫就是一只低速光模块。从光猫到数据中心里插满面板的 800G 模块,拆开看是同一条对称的信号链。
和朋友争论 Mio 该走疗愈树洞还是恋爱模拟,争到最后发现两条路都不对。市场数据说这个品类的用户和角色平均只处 5 到 7 天,差评第一名是失忆。我觉得毛病出在关系是单方面的。这一篇讲 Mio 的新方向,双向奔赴,附一份完整的产品主线 deck。
给盘盘猫做了一次从灵魂到呈现的完整体检,结论挺离谱:最值钱的三样东西——记忆、人格、统一体验——代码全在仓库里,没有一样真的跑在用户面前。这一篇讲免费大模型怎么把「生辰进、报告出」打成白菜价,参天占住的工具位旁边那个没人站的关系位,还有为什么最后选了灵魂先行这条路。附一份完整的产品主线 deck。
模型越强,你说不清楚想要什么的代价越大。从地图与疆域讲到四种空白,拆一套我自己验证过的和模型打交道的方法,最后讲怎么让每个坑只交一次学费。
AI has driven the marginal cost of instruction to zero, and for the first time in the history of education the bottleneck has moved from 'who will teach' to 'why would anyone want to learn.' Starting from a community thread about why kids refuse to study, I traced the evidence across motivation science, learning science, and AI alignment: demand isn't found, it's ignited; 'you'll need it someday' loses to a discount curve; and a fully motivated student with an answer-giving AI scores 17% worse on exams than one with no AI at all. Education in the AI era is a double alignment problem — first get people to want to learn, then protect the cognitive labor that can't be outsourced.
AI 把讲授的边际成本打到零,教育史上第一次,瓶颈从'谁来教'搬到了'人为什么想学'。顺着一个 AI 社群里关于'孩子为什么不肯学'的讨论,我把动机科学、学习科学和 alignment 的证据串了一遍:需求不是找出来的,是点着的;'以后用得上'输给的是一条折现曲线;动机满格的学生加一个直接给答案的 AI,考试成绩反而比不用的还低 17%。教育要解的是双重对齐——先让人想学,再保住那份不可外包的认知劳动。
I listened to an episode on AI and wealth redistribution — the finance podcast 十分吸引 crossed with 听懂涨声 — and the best part was the history: how railroads, electricity, and the internet each reshuffled wealth. I dug a layer under their account and made it harder: the reshuffle runs one logic every time — technology rewires the economic network, the old bottleneck fails, a new one gets priced, and wealth follows the bargaining power. Railroads rewired the goods network, electricity the energy network, the internet the information network, AI the task network. The first three eventually grew a new middle class, because those production modes needed armies of ordinary people. AI is heavy-asset and dispersive, so it may run only the concentration half and skip broaden-the-middle.
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