Our salvation is not in the conquest of foreign lands, but in the defeat of evil within us and in our ranks. To be sovereign over our own lands - we must be able to say no.
@LiteralMurderer OpenAI already got crawled by DeepSeek, presumably they're more careful about what they expose. Google? Fair question. Anthropic seems intent on getting / staying out front and got into arguments with the Feds over it. This might be punishment while the others back-channel.
Kind of a big deal. My suspicion - the US government doesn't want Chinese AI operations from training their frontier models by distilling off of US frontier models and thus saving 95% of the training compute (and having their own local versions.)
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
Had a good discussion with someone today about why the literature and overall vibes from Apollo era NASA feels so different compared to now.
Two things:
1. The average age of a NASA engineer during the Apollo era was 28
2. Most of them were first generation engineers who didn’t really have the engineering background
So you take a bunch of 21-32 year olds who grew up on a farm, and now you tell them we are going to do something nobody’s ever done before. It leads to things being as simplified as they need to be. There is enough duct-tape work that things actually get done.
Society has forced us into a evermore theoretical world where we have forgotten what it feels like to beat the puzzle pieces into place with a hammer.
This is why many of the textbooks from this time period are actually very pleasant to read through. They were often written by or for someone who had nothing but outside life experience, trying to understand it.
Our generation is taking Artemis back to the moon and also Mars in the same way this generation did. I think we have a lot to learn from how they did things, and I’m glad to see a return to this type of engineering.
I can’t help but think about how many projects I didn’t finish because I couldn’t do them well enough to my standards in my head, and I should have just wrapped the thing in duct-tape and crossed the finish line
The debt pin was a great Massie gimmick.
It's not war or Israel that got us here. ~85% of US gov't spending is social welfare.
The left will never, ever work with libertarians to fix this.
Libertarians who think they can cooperate or work with the left are getting played.