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[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Sriram Krishnan @sriramk]

On everyone asking about the events of the last 24 hours 👇

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@altcap @elonmusk @Tesla @SpaceX no, he is not smarter than this.. he is actually that dumb and unfortunately, a congressman

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@bhogleharsha Amen!! The best player and human to represent NZ cricket.

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@sudzz71 @PenduProfessor @dreamgirlhema Pal pal dil ke paas

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@gaborgurbacs @btcede https://t.co/44jJB6Xp5V

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Since you are Hungrian and are talking about expensive bad food .. had a meal at this place in Budapest couple of weeks ago .. worst food (tasting menu to boot) ever - theatrical,pretentious, the most flavorless, tasteless slop I have ever eaten. They asked my daughter what was the best course and she instantly blurted out “the bread” :)

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@gaborgurbacs @TomLux00 So you know bad food :)

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@LloydMathias It all happened during Vishwaguru’s reign

[Cricket Central @CricketCentrl]

"Sooryavanshi humiliating great bowlers exposes cricket’s systemic ills" - Massive statement by Greg Chappell on Vaibhav Suryavanshi 🤯👀

Greg Chappell said 🗣️,

"In his elegant downswing and flawless balance, there are distinct echoes of the great Graeme Pollock and the incomparable Sir Garfield Sobers. When he slashes across the line or lofts over extra cover, one glimpses the ferocious, instinctive genius of Brian Lara, combined with the devastating, ball-one intent of Adam Gilchrist.
It is a classic, pure method being deployed with contemporary violence, proving that his talent is a rare gift to the game. However, his unprecedented success at such a tender age serves as a profound warning sign.

If a child who has barely completed his physical development can step onto the global stage and effortlessly humiliate elite international bowlers, it exposes a systemic illness within the sport. Sooryavanshi is the ultimate canary in the coal mine, showing us that the modern environment has been engineered to make bowling extinct. The combination of hyper-engineered bat technology, drastically shortened boundary ropes, and completely lifeless, flat pitches has swung the game monstrously in favour of batters." [ESPNcricinfo]

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@ErikaMorris79 Stokes is a moron. Period.
It is a pattern with him not an innocent rookie mistake

[losingnow @losingnow]

Well said

[cricBC @cricBC]

I find the whole "Test cricket is the pinnacle" conversation almost sickening now. Every cricketer, former cricketer queues up to get a share of IPL riches as player, coach, commentator etc while parroting praises of Test cricket. It's like everyone trying to get a job in AI while saying how they feel civil engineering is the best.

Like it's amusing they keep running clips of Kohli saying Test cricket is the best and its the format he enjoys the most. Then what stops Kohli from turning up for Delhi in Ranji or heck play a season of county cricket in England. Jimmy Anderson is still doing that. You turn up for a domestic T20 competition because that is where the most money and maximum fan engagement is. It should be perfectly acceptable to say that "Look Test cricket was great, but we all love T20 the most now since the concept of five day cricket is outdated and the fans don't like it as much"

But no. Almost no one can say that without getting brickbats from the whole cricket establishment. No one (other than Lalit Modi) openly says that Test cricket is past it's prime and is just a niche sport now and will continue to be.

Ashwin was talking in a panel discussion on cricinfo recently where he said we should force kids to play Test cricket. It was an absurd statement. I mean T20 is simply just a bigger job market now. A kid can grow up only playing T20 and make a living play Tamil Nadu Premier League even if he doesn't qualify for IPL ever. Can Test cricket give that kind of job market to a kid today? Would you force your kids to learn abacus if they are interested in learning python coding?

The center of all this nonsense is the shadow of how cricket is still "gentleman's game". It is just an unwritten law in the old boys club that runs the game that everyone who picks a bat needs to pay homage to the holy spirit of cricket. The spirit that dictates what cricket ought to be like even when it is far separated from the reality of its existence.

Cricket is not the only game that has evolved. Of course cricket is unique in having different formats of the same sport. But tennis also changed because the racquets became superior and players became muscular and the serve and volley game of the bygone era got extinct. Basketball changed when everyone started shooting 3-pointers in NBA. And while other sports also sometimes get nostalgic about the past, they don't bring arguments or discuss methods to turn back the clock at the expense of what people actually want to watch.

And that is exactly the elitism in the Test cricket superiority argument that irks me the most. It goes against vox populi. People have spoken long back about the format they prefer. Yet the commentariat looks at empty cricket stands in Test matches and almost gets judgemental about cricket fans. As if you need to turn up to the stadium in a Test match and do your time in the stands just to be deemed worthy of being called a cricket fan.

So yea. I almost secretly hope Sooryavanshi actually never plays Test cricket. Just to piss off Test supremacists. Quietly becomes bigger celeb than Jordan and Kohli combined playing only T20. And then as he wears that highest crown in sport, he has the authority and honesty to for once state the truth. That the gospel of Test cricket is an elitist lie. That Test cricket isn't supreme anymore. And you know what, the world is a better place because of that coz it the will of the people made it happen.

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@ErikaMorris79 @Rcb_Xtra Me too :(

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India priorities!

[Sangeetha(RewriteYourStory) @saaiyer]

Your snacks and chakhna come in 10 mins.

The fire brigade and ambulance takes 45 mins.

India in a nutshell.

Sad. Very sad.

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Economically literate post ..

[Sandeep Parekh @SandeepParekh]

The post combines one valid intuition with several economic fallacies. Here is what is wrong with it. 🧵

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@SandeepParekh Great post !!

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@LalitKModi @hvgoenka Awesome vision !!

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@ankurnagpal Yep.
In $s (the reserve currency of the world) and post-tax (with the right strategies like tax loss harvesting).

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@Manavvv31 @ankurnagpal Quietly ?? Iykyk

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@Backhand_Slice_ Yep. Miller and Ashutosh should have played all matches and up the order. Total screw up by badani