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MD Culinary medicine enthusiast. Detox from chemicals! Eliminate high fructose corn syrup.

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@StuartHameroff Retired clinical, administrative and academic physician investigating consciousness. 3 AI team using deep think strategy to solve tough questions.

[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

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@saif305 It rains🦎 occasionally.

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@saif305 🤐🤫 FloGro. Big 🐊 . Nasty gigantic cockroaches. Numerous 🦟 x-large supersized. 🦈 infested waters. Hot 🥵 summers. 🌀 and 🌪️ sink 🕳️. Other than those tiny issues we’re terrific. C’mon down to paradise if you dare? 🤷‍♀️🤣

[YNot @MDNelsonY]

He rode a larger one in 2024. Grok notes: October 29, 2020. Sebastian Steudtner rode the 86-foot (26.21-meter) wave at Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal, on that date. It was later certified by Guinness World Records as the largest wave surfed (unlimited) by a male.

(Note: He has ridden even larger waves in later years, including a claimed ~93.7-foot wave in February 2024, but the official 86-foot record is from 2020.)

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@RightMakesMigh2 @BrandonStraka @Publix That is very true. CostCo fills in as the warehouse shopping.

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@johnennis The system is saying the thread is too long and loading the entire thread for each response is costly to you and Anthropic. Why that cannot be simply stated? 🤷‍♀️

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@DaveShapi Fable is not for the public except to ask how to boil and egg.

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@RedPillRabbit @CaliRN619 @USAA any comments?

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@RedPillRabbit @CaliRN619 Over 40 years with USAA. Ending that relationship if this is confirmed.

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@elonmusk Sus. Been working with Grok for a year now. Numerous complex math mistakes caught by Claude. Confabulation and hallucinations. Have Claude check the work? Kimi3 agree? Then peer review?

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@BernieSanders Please get your interns access to something other then MS Co-Pilot as their AI access for research. This level of diabolical prose is absurd. You are not well informed if the complex situation.

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@mkratsios47 @TomFitton My teenage sons have done a magnanimous job of lying in comparison. Do better.

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@jimcramer 😳🤨🫢😁🤣🤡

[YNot @MDNelsonY]

😂 Those who are permanently stuck in HW3 12.6.x or 14 lite are going to live with merging traffic nightmares, misjudged slowing traffic, driving into the bus lane and every other issue including occasional phantom braking. Forever. The phantom braking improved 90%. The other 10% is just 🤷‍♀️ The dream that never materialized.

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@HealthRanger The government is currently in approved for Co-Pilot. Institutions already have Fable access.

[YNot @MDNelsonY]

Haven’t we played this out already. Pharma? We pay 100x in price to supply the world with medications. Meanwhile our retirees and elders are choosing between food and blood pressure. Same situation. We will pay 10x the price while the world is using models with more capability at a lower cost. 🤔

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@Skyneye @PeterDiamandis @grok Frontier research is not possible with Fable 5 gated. You know that @Grok. Fable will not engage for biology, chemistry or quantum. Frontier. Right. Except for those domains. That’s not frontier.

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@PeterDiamandis We will be restricted from using or sourcing the less expensive model. This is not a new playbook. We’ve been funding the pharmaceutical sector for years. IS individual pays 100x the costs for drugs abroad.

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@DavidSacks @SterlingCooley Fable is useless for anything other than a recipe for lemon chicken or how to pot a plant. That’s Fables depth for chemistry and biology. Nicely done Anthropic. We can surmise the future state of AI in the US. Nothing beyond Opus 4.8 will be offered to the public.