Farouk

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[Farouk @fernook]

A commonly held belief on r/technology right now is that the US directive to disable Fable access for foreign nationals is a conspiracy to help juice Anthropic’s share price.

I swear Reddit AI deniers live in a different reality

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Lewis Hamilton breaks the record for the most F1 wins (106), previously held by Lewis Hamilton (105)

[Farouk @fernook]

🐐

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

LEWIS HAMILTON’S FIRST VICTORY FOR FERRARI!! 🔥

[Allison Duettmann @allisondman]

Some personal news: I've joined @MythosVentures as a Venture Partner. Mythos invests in ambitious teams with defensible strategies that scale to a safe, post-AGI world. Supporting that mission through non-profit work is at the heart of what I do at Foresight; I'm delighted to now back founders from a for-profit angle as well. Dms are open if that's you :)

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

COME AND TAKE IT @realDonaldTrump

[Farouk @fernook]

y’all got any more of that Fable 5 access

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Farouk @fernook]

@F1 aston martin got points last weekend so they decided the car is in a great spot

[Farouk @fernook]

@v_maini @allisondman @foresightinst @MythosVentures 40% of @MythosVentures is CEOs

[Vishal Maini @v_maini]

Honored to share that @allisondman, CEO of @foresightinst, is joining @MythosVentures as a Venture Partner!

Allison has spent her career steering towards a technological future that is both powerful and good.

Now, alongside her ongoing responsibilities at Foresight, she will work with Mythos to build some epic companies. ✨

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Fable: "write me a rhyming poem with six four line stanzas, each stanza removes another vowel. the first has no u, the second no u or i, etc."

[Helen Toner @hlntnr]

I mostly agree with this, but it does seem like a bad and trust-damaging move to degrade performance on AI R&D tasks silently, rather than handling like other topics of concern (warning box + bumping the chat down to a less capable model)

[Farouk @fernook]

its kind of funny that you can't even use Fable 5 to improve the security of your own projects. Anthropic is forcing offense to be asymmetrically better than defense in cybersecurity. that doesn't seem in-line with their values.

[Nivge @Nivgeron]

Damn

[Farouk @fernook]

@Kushagrat15 @formularacers_ @telegraaf anyone with functioning eyes who’s watched a single race or even looked at post race results can see they shouldn’t be the benchmark

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Version of AI tool too powerful for public released to public https://t.co/2HtI4UJCTW

[Farouk @fernook]

Fable……

[Farouk @fernook]

@elder_plinius if Fable (which redirects you on the simplest biology or cybersecurity question) can be jailbroken then no model is ever going to be fully safe lol