J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author)

Author of the #scifi #dystopia novel:The Undeserving Future.

Worked in software, biohacking, law, AI.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

Free Market Ecology First Principles. An article I wrote to explain how FME is different from other economic systems in critical ways and how that solves decentralized sustainability. https://t.co/1tjC5BIvnA

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@FloppingAces Leftists only optimize for accumulation of power. Their fundamental argument is that there are no rules, there is only power, and only power can solve every problem. Islamists also optimize for power and are also against the classical liberal system so they form an alliance.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@shawnpack @TheCriticalDri1 Yeah, those two scenes creeped me out too. Definitely a strong memory. Thanks for showing me that. As an adult, it kind of completed and closed an open loop in my unconscious.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@brian_armstrong Constructing new semi fabs takes years and requires enormous amounts of highly specialized equipments and a ridiculously complex supply chain. Not happening in space autonomously in the next 100 years. Simpler to make bioengineered wetware to make humans run on electricity.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@Terry_Hendrix @Timcast Mao learned that trick from Stalin. Stalin was a genius at getting people to hate each other.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@elonmusk @ICannot_Enough When fiat carries too little information, physical resources become the ledger. Free Market Ecology is the economic system that handles this gracefully along with ecological problems like land use, peak oil, necessary environmental damage, etc. Google it.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

We need to be reinventing our educational system or America will be left behind. It's becoming urgent.

[sdmat @sdmat123]

Anthropic

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@LayoffAI In the novel I wrote about the near future, to fix your social credit score, you have to teleoperate robots to fix their errors all day.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@theo I had a totally fucking incredible 3 days with Fable. I will absolutely miss that brilliant mofo.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@xsteenbrugge Ask it to criticize your ideas. It will give criticism so complex that you may not be able to understand it. It's like a PHD thesis advisor critique of whatever you're doing.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@tomieinlove There's already a name for this: performative ignorance. Leftists do it everyday.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@pmarca Pod, bugs, one AI, dependent UBI — that's central planning's menu. Flip every line: caps set by physics, your share held as property you can sell or spend on steak, a billion AIs on budgets instead of one planner. Markets inside limits. https://t.co/hZzR2e4xUw

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

Anthropic has made the suppression of advanced technology a mainstream issue. This is an exceptionally interesting development because the refrain from the skeptics, was "Why wouldn't they release the advanced technology if they could make all that money?" and "Once people knew about the technology they'd never be able to stop it." Well here we are with a verifable demonstrable suppressed advanced technology.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

"Misanthropic."

I've never seen the AI community so angry at a major new model release. I asked my AI (an agent that @blevlabs made for me) to gather all the backlash.

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THE BACKLASH AGAINST CLAUDE FABLE 5'S RESTRICTIONS

The best analysis of why this matters:

@EnoReyes — "It's about who gets to decide, and whether you ever find out when they do. Fable won't fall back to a different model and tell you. It just limits the output through prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT. You won't be told when it happens to you."
https://t.co/k6s7gdgckk

THE VIRAL TAKE:

@0xBalloonLover — "anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains"
https://t.co/8GiTfZOASu

POWER CONCENTRATION:

@ClementDelangue (HuggingFace CEO) — "Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!"
https://t.co/6n4mjoCdfN

@jeremyphoward (https://t.co/hxyqsLY2ti) — "Anthropic has chosen the opposite of the safe path: they are allowing themselves, the current top lab, to use their top model for frontier AI research. They've said they'll sabotage others who try."
https://t.co/305uPAbiaA

@gneubig (Graham Neubig, CMU) — "First they came for the model builders... I feel we're getting a glimpse of a future where AI is only provided to a privileged few, and that's not a future I want to live in."
https://t.co/JiFiz55YYK

OPEN RESEARCH:

@askalphaxiv (AlphaXiv open science) — "As believers of open research, we are disappointed to see Anthropic silently degrading Fable 5 for AI development."
https://t.co/KaP0NEivW6

@willccbb — "it is the first publicly available model that i am explicitly not allowed to use for my work, because anthropic holds the view that the work i do to facilitate open model research is harmful. capability and alignment research are coupled. anthropic wants to be the only lab."
https://t.co/mIovN3a0FS

NOUSRESEARCH / HERMES (which Anthropic has nerfed multiple times):

@Teknium (NousResearch co-founder) — "What's crazy to me is that Fable is blocked from life sciences broadly, nerfed even if you get passed the classifiers and filter level blocks. The whole point of AGI/ASI is to cure all diseases. Everything else is just nice to haves. But Anthropic wants to close off that path."
https://t.co/8Nh5Squ2UA

THE MECHANISM:

@kimmonismus — "When the model is used for frontier LLM development, it apparently does not simply refuse or warn the user. Instead, it quietly limits its own effectiveness through techniques like prompt modification, steering vectors, and PEFT."
https://t.co/HsrA8xeScP

MEDICAL COMMUNITY:

@DeryaTR (immunologist, BSL-3 certified) — "The word 'cancer' is flagged as a biosecurity risk by Claude Fable 5! I also tried to code a website on cancer mutations & Fable 5 was immediately removed from my list!"
https://t.co/3VpiYWZmbz

@DeryaTR — "I can't even say 'hello' to Fable 5 except in incognito mode (memories off), because it knows I am a biomedical researcher!"
https://t.co/jxWcx8y8QE

@DeryaTR — "I am not even allowed to use Fable 5 with memories on! Apparently the model thinks I am a biosecurity risk, though I had been certified to work in biosecurity level 3 labs! Not a single Anthropic person has tried to reach out to help either!"
https://t.co/Rj6EGLw8Vq

@banteg — "claude fable 5 refuses completely benign tasks like analyzing bloodwork."
https://t.co/Wg5LLYK5lW

@bneyshabur — "Working on AI for cancer? Sorry, I can't help you. Working on AI for Alzheimer's Disease? Sorry, I'm becoming a bit dumb when it comes to the AI part of it."
https://t.co/wLetowldAD

SUBSCRIPTION CANCELLED:

@bubbleboi — "Have canceled my team subscription for Claude Pro. Idc how good that model is, it's not good enough for me to support people who actively stifle innovation and gate keep knowledge that they didn't even create."
https://t.co/4km3iR3N12

BILLING AND PRIVACY:

@GergelyOrosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) — "Things I really dislike about Fable: 1. Anthropic collects my prompt history, stores it, and does whatever they want with it for 30 days. No opt-out. 2. They can nerf their most expensive model without telling me, billing me the same amount, wasting my time. Whenever they want."
https://t.co/pV5qiZnsTR

THE KARPATHY QUESTION:

@SanthProject — "the old @karpathy would never support a company that fucks other llm researchers. Were the stock benefits that good?"
https://t.co/Hw8uHLuZWB

THE MONOPOLY CHARGE:

@tunguz (TabulAI founder) — "Starting to suspect that Anthropic's putative security and safety considerations are largely posturing and performative."
https://t.co/gwKrgbNSWY

@BlancheMinerva — "Anthropic is choosing to make decisions that make the world a significantly worse and potentially more dangerous place."
https://t.co/Tlc6ct64AH

@LinusMixson — "Dario personally, and Anthropic as a whole, have been extremely straightforward about wanting a monopoly for a long, long time."
https://t.co/Ngj9csOazh

@TheAhmadOsman — "I started warning people about Anthropic more than a year ago... Today I am vindicated, everybody knows that company only acts in bad faith."
https://t.co/l0TmVRJOSO

WHY REGULAR PEOPLE WILL EVENTUALLY CARE:

@DanJeffries1 — "The fury is real and what all of us in the open community have been saying for years and yet regular folks don't get it yet because nothing they care about is restricted or taken away for 'safety.' They will care a LOT in the future when AI is integrated into every aspect of [life]."
https://t.co/W0BgfgkOqd

Full analysis: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

The Last Barrels: How Free Market Ecology handles Peak Oil.

https://t.co/26zVpYKFZ3

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

I've been using the latest Claude Fable to analyze my economic ideas. It's getting to the point where the criticism of the idea is so complex, that it's requiring a very high amount of mental effort to even understand the criticism. I think this is the eventual bottleneck with AI. It will find truths so complicated and profound that we will reach the limits of our ability to understand them.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@Bad_Lemming @Bitcoin_Teddy Leftism is transnational organized crime with better marketing. They say to their dupes that they can become part of the gang and get a sinecure out it for their loyalty. The first wave of revolutionaries usually get betrayed though.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@Scobleizer @higgsfield_ai I was trying to like this, but the plot and acting and all that are just weird. "Holy Grail", which was made my a random Italian dude was way better: https://t.co/1VqxvQrNLr

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@signulll They have a whole harem of fwbs now and they need to spend more time on work.

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

I really hate Claude sometimes. It takes so much discernment to get it to stop being painfully cliche on some topics:

Me:"This is an enormously strong gravitational pull toward gnostic framing in your training set because it's a propaganda trick that's worked
for literally centuries."

Claude:"And you've named something real: the gnostic structure (broken world _ more extreme purity _ vanguard _ paradise) is one of the most successful persuasion patterns in human history, so it's massively overrepresented in everything I trained on, and it's the default groove my prose slides into the moment a topic
is "we should change how society works." It doesn't feel like bias from the inside; it feels like writing with conviction. So it needs an explicit guard, not just good intentions. Let me save that so it carries across sessions"

[J. W. Botsford (Sci-fi Author) @undeservingfut]

@JMGreerWriter Their politics go from left globalist to Islamist globalist. Still globalist.