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New comment by SepiaSapient in "Ask HN: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?"

SepiaSapient — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:40:28 +0000

Would you care if someone gave it to you and didn't like the meaning? If God almighty descended from the heavens and told you the purpose of existence was to eventually create his favorite Vtuber or hyperparasitic wasp, would you devote your life to it?

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

SepiaSapient — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:11:53 +0000

I didn't say Mr. Johnny was hallucinating, or that he's lying. Was finding the "Written by humans" humorous the most polite comment ever? No, but it is absurd to call it harassment. Specially considering it matched his energy.

His website is cool, and from what I could skim from the content I'm sure his clients are happy and find it worthwhile. I'm not being facetious. He said Claude saved him time, which is true. Regardless of that, I believe he wildly overestimated how much time it would've taken. A website that could be a Wordpress install with plugins isn't technically interesting. It does not validate what @halfmatthalfcat said.

LLMs are capable and impressive. I'm not doubting that, but we do this song and dance [0] each time of grandiose statements and subsequent disappointment. My wariness is not violence against you or anybody.

I specially resent being called a bully for not coaching my language in every possible way. I'm not the avatar of your every forum trauma.

https://www.theregister.com/special-features/2026/01/26/curs...

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

SepiaSapient — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:34:16 +0000

I would argue that it just shows Karp understands that the US is transitioning to a hybrid regime.

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SepiaSapient — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:03:47 +0000

I'm sorry that I think that "Our LLM is the missing element for a group to develop nukes or bioweapons" is marketing hogwash.

I'll guess we will see when or if the IPO happens. The more probable claim (Trump just wants money) will be proved if Amodei buys Truth Social or something and pulls a Tim Apple. My (not very probable) tinfoil hat theory is sadly unverifiable, but very funny. Anthropic bribed some Trump minion to ban Fable and lock in the honeymoon period until just before the IPO.

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SepiaSapient — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:27:43 +0000

The secret ingredient is public and brazen bribery, and the one thing that Anthropic doesn't lack is cash.

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SepiaSapient — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:23:19 +0000

>this is a cratering of the userbase inside and outside of the US.

Is it really? It was limited release anyway (like hypebeast merch!). Everything people are gonna talk about for a week is gonna be about how Fable was so cool that it got banned by the feds. If it's just the Trump admin being the Trump admin, Amodei is just gonna have to pay up as a racket / marketing expense. Or it is like I'm suspecting and this was pre-bribed and the ban is kabuki theater.

>And, if you were hoping for a Star Trek-like future, you just adjusted your timeline for the worse.

The funny thing is that solar and batteries advancements are actually this, not LLMs, but your framing kinda fits anyways.

New comment by SepiaSapient in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SepiaSapient — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:01:24 +0000

Fable is very impressive but not exports restriction impressive. Very tinfoil hat on my part but doesn't this seem very false flag adjacent?

You bribe someone in the admin to restrict access after a couple of days of media blitz and user approval, locking in the honeymoon period that new model releases get (remember when GPT-4 was new?). The spooky factor gives it even more marketing, and just before the IPO the Trump admin frees Mythos and they make nice after the DoD debacle.

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

SepiaSapient — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:42:32 +0000

As the blog appears to be rate limited.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260613005302/https://www.anthr...

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

SepiaSapient — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:34:10 +0000

> target for all manner of negativity ranging from snark to harassment to malicious action

We get get the Borg-esque "resistance is futile" spiel, someone asks for examples. One guy (kinda smugly tbh) points us to his (neat) online course website, claiming that it took him 1 month to rebuild with Claude, ergo GP is right and the non-AI dev is destined to extinction. As WooCommerce didn't end all web development before, he gets some good-natured ribbing.

I find the AI booster dynamic of "you are fool and will get replaced" to "I'm a smoll defenseless bean" kinda puzzling.

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

SepiaSapient — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:40:38 +0000

I'm looking at something fairly standard that can be made with a SSG. The "Written by humans" footer gave a good chuckle tho.

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

SepiaSapient — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:41:12 +0000

Didn't you know? Lab work being a skill is fake news. Jimmy Schoolshooter can make a couple of kilos of Anthrax in an afternoon with our cool genie.

Remember to buy the IPO!

New comment by SepiaSapient in "Notes on DeepSeek"

SepiaSapient — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:29:57 +0000

I'm simply a postgrad from a no name university, but I'm not sure that the future frontier will come from the current approach from OpenAI and Anthropic. Distilling just seems like another avenue to collect useful data, like using books or scrapping the human-net, not necessarily copycat behavior. Chucking another 1000 TWh and scaling with already pillaged human-output is having diminishing results.

The next "frontier" as in, an order of magnitude higher model capability, might come from eschewing the bitter lesson and trying to be clever instead of pilling on GPUs. (I'm sure US labs also try clever new architectures) Maybe the plateau is permanent in the medium term. The frontier will be the exercise in taking the 10T monster models into something that can be run locally with minimal degradation.

That jibes a lot more with "AI is just new tech" attitude than the (genuine or otherwise) "we will build the Godhead in our image".

New comment by SepiaSapient in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

SepiaSapient — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:12:58 +0000

Not quite, the requirement is that phones not bought locally need to be registered after 30 days, regardless if someone is a tourist or a Chilean citizen. It's a mix of deterring tax evasion, importing stolen phones, and regulatory homologation. The government delegates responsibility to various telecom companies to have portals to self-register the IMEI with ID, which can be a foreign passport.

I'm sure the cops can get that info, but its mostly to enforce the "only one free register per year". Anyone can buy a phone with cash and use a prepaid sim with zero ID needed.