Ben Grieser

Hoos, Nats, & Ravens. Aspiring scratch golfer. UVA CLAS & McIntire DoubleHoo

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@Jeff_S_Hatton @theo Same here. They’ll quietly give Theo his reset back while the rest of us will be SOL https://t.co/nuqaHAyBv7

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

Here’s some feedback: I just lost a banked reset because the app only shows the expiration date (but there’s no time) - I assumed no timestamp would mean expiration at midnight. I had every intent to use my reset today but lost it potentially by a matter of minutes? and had to burn another banked reset as a result.

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@ClaudeDevs Nobody cares about these hollow apologies unless there’s a reset. Signed, everyone.

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

I wish I could start it from inside a repo/project - it’s just cluttering my list of chats and then nothing is organized. And then every session is a new chat. More clutter. Worse, I have to waste my breath every time, because I start with “in this project do X” which wouldn’t be necessary if you could initiate voice session within a project directly. Maybe I’m using it wrong? I mean it’s cool I can orchestrate tasks in multiple projects at once, but most of the time, I don’t want or need to do that. @thsottiaux

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@AlexFinn

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

Yes. I get way better output when I dictate. So much faster than typing, too. So there’s an efficiency there as well. When you use a keyboard, you second guess, backtrack, overthink things. Paralyzed by sending the perfect prompt. Speaking out loud removes that friction. Even if explain I something poorly or oversimplify, I just caveat that in my dictation and LLMs do an excellent job parsing through and inferring your true intent. I find Fable 5 does this better than any other model at the moment.

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@ClaudeDevs How dumb do you think we are?

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@thsottiaux @dkundel This is extremely painful when I just used a banked reset literally 2 hours before this. On top of this issue below. So I effectively lost 2 resets unnecessarily. @thsottiaux please make this right!

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

Here’s some feedback: I just lost a banked reset because the app only shows the expiration date (but there’s no time) - I assumed no timestamp would mean expiration at midnight. I had every intent to use my reset today but lost it potentially by a matter of minutes? and had to burn another banked reset as a result.

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@voidprimer @thsottiaux Thanks for the tip. Either way, it would be nice for @thsottiaux and the kind folks at OpenAI to make this right by crediting my banked reset.

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@ClaudeDevs And this is automatic, or will I have to somehow opt in to get my credits back?

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

I am not a political person. The scientific community and the data and evidence overwhelmingly shows that morning sunlight is imperative for good health.

There are Republicans and Democrats both on the right side of this as seen by legislation just introduced - bipartisan calling for permanent standard time. But there are also Republicans and Democrats on the wrong side of this issue that because of either intellectual laziness or willful ignorance have voted for a bill that will remove morning sunlight for hundreds of millions of people that they are financially medically responsible for, and it will increase the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease as well as certain types of cancers that we have evidence for.

I am a boarded Sleep specialist, which means that I am an expert in this field.

This is not my opinion, but the position of thousands of professionals who understand the circadian rhythm and the tremendous impact that this will have hundreds of millions of people in the United States.

It is completely untenable that the supreme governing body of our country would make a decision about this without weighing the evidence.

Making standard time permanent is literally the lowest hanging fruit that we could decide to improve the health of our country. Instead, we have politicians going on this platform to boast that they gave more sunlight to their constituents. As if the stroke of their mighty pen could add one second to the amount of sunlight that comes from the sun.

Complete ignorance.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@theo Anthropic said Fable 5 included access ended 7/7, then extended to 7/12 hours before cutoff, after users upgraded/bought credits in reliance on that scarcity. That’s a potential false-urgency/deceptive-marketing issue under @FTC Act §5. Report: https://t.co/C3n7baHqWn

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@claudeai Anthropic said Fable 5 included access ended 7/7, then extended to 7/12 hours before cutoff, after users upgraded/bought credits in reliance on that scarcity. That’s a potential false-urgency/deceptive-marketing issue under @FTC Act §5. Report: https://t.co/C3n7baHqWn

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@trq212 @godwinbabu @ClaudeDevs Anthropic said Fable 5 included access ended 7/7, then extended to 7/12 hours before cutoff, after users upgraded/bought credits in reliance on that scarcity. That’s a potential false-urgency/deceptive-marketing issue under FTC Act §5. Report: https://t.co/7i3ZOIyrrW

cc: @FTC

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

Case in point. You’ve got someone like this who now has 5 more days of Fable usage. Vs. some others whose reset hits 7/13, when Fable is no longer part of the sub. Obectively, the only way to counteract this artificial imbalance fairly is by resetting limits for all subs.

https://t.co/2dNEcv3UEA

[Diego | AI 🚀 - e/acc @diegocabezas01]

Weekly limits re started this morning, that means I have 12 hours to use a whole 100% weekly usage of fable today?

Game on

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

Same. When they pull this, I feel like they should be required to reset the weekly usage limits to all subs? Because it’s almost a complete luck of the draw of who can maximize their Fable usage depending on what day of the week and time your reset occurs. Unless I am missing something obvious? @trq212

[Ben Grieser @bgrieser]

@robj3d3 @ClaudeDevs Fat chance.