alt Hacker NewsIt’s a mistake to conflate “wants to spend money on the most ethical option available” with “ think the most ethical option available is perfect”
Why wouldn’t you move your dollars to someplace incrementally better?
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cat_plus_plus • today at 1:36 AM
There are so many inference providers not working for Department of War. Even Alibaba and sure China has lots of issues but they are not bombing anyone now if that's your first priority. Or else, smaller US / European / Asian companies with pure civilian focus. SOTA open weights models they serve are perfectly suitable for coding and chat. I run a local Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4 instance and it writes entire Android apps from scratch and that's a midsized model.
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You make it sound as if "the most ethical option available" is.. actually ethical?
Their statement doesn't make it sound they are incrementally better, they are trying to bend over backwards to keep working for war.