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New comment by modeless in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

modeless — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:31:27 +0000

I'm enjoying imagining that this comment was typed by Dario. It sure sounds like him. I mean, he's not usually this profane, but maybe on an alt account...

New comment by modeless in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

modeless — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:07:57 +0000

You say it, but you don't always get it.

New comment by modeless in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

modeless — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:36:23 +0000

> But this government [...]

I'm hearing a lot of this kind of thing. "Oh if only it was a different government". I'm sorry, but when you cry out for government involvement, it's not always going to be coming from the government you personally wanted. This is the whole problem with government involvement! I don't think that message is getting through, but it's the real lesson that should be learned here.

New comment by modeless in "Claude Fable 5"

modeless — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:45:36 +0000

Sorry, but a plain reading of your comment does not imply at all that you agree with me, rather the opposite. I'm not basing my opinion on any mistaken axiom of inevitable technology improvement, of course. I'm projecting obvious trends of the past few years which are overwhelmingly likely to continue in the medium term.

"Same difference" could only mean that you believe my argument should fail in the same way as an argument based on Moore's law. If that's not what you meant then you should have used different words. If that is what you meant, with the justification that "AI scaling in the longest term is a completely unknown problem", I disagree with that too.

In the "longest term" the ultimate scaling of AI doesn't matter for the original question of whether "AGI will most likely only be for the rich". Nobody looks at the TOP500 list today and says "computing is only for the rich". This is because we have an abundance of iPhones and gaming PCs in the consumer market, providing practically any application of computing that a consumer could want at very attainable prices. Similarly, practically any application of AGI will be accessible to consumers at attainable prices. Continued AI scaling after a certain point will be relevant mostly to industry (whose products will still be priced attainably, analogously to the way weather forecasts produced on TOP500 supercomputers are readily accessible to the public today).

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

modeless — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:08:24 +0000

It seems like both sides of this are intentionally interpreting the other's statements and actions in the least charitable way, as part of their political maneuvering. I wouldn't be surprised if Anthropic's overreaction here is intended to create damages which they can then sue the government over.

New comment by modeless in "Claude Fable 5"

modeless — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:15:24 +0000

Training improvements and Moore's Law are "analogous" but not "same difference." They are far from the same thing, governed by completely different factors, and one can happen and has been happening independently from the other.

New comment by modeless in "Claude Fable 5"

modeless — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:22:31 +0000

Nobody's making profits right now, not because they're selling tokens for less than their cost but because they're always investing in the next bigger model.

New comment by modeless in "Claude Fable 5"

modeless — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:49:52 +0000

Every model has encyclopedic knowledge of Pokémon FireRed, of course. Knowledge is not ability. This is the first model with the ability to apply that knowledge to beat the game without assistance.

I highly doubt they focused on FireRed specifically in pretraining or posttraining. But we'll see when the ARC-AGI-3 results come out. That will measure its performance on unseen games. Based on this I expect the ARC-AGI-3 score to be SOTA.

New comment by modeless in "Claude Fable 5"

modeless — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:43:52 +0000

No, I'm not assuming Moore's law. The efficiency of AI datacenters will continue to improve even without Moore's law, but more importantly the efficiency of packing intelligence into gigabytes and FLOPS will improve by leaps and bounds over the coming years, just as it has for the past few years if not faster.

New comment by modeless in "Claude Fable 5"

modeless — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:28:25 +0000

This is like looking at mainframe pricing in 1990 and concluding that PCs will only be for the rich. The price of each new level of capability is going to drop like crazy very quickly. It won't be that long before practically any consumer use case will be possible on models that are dirt cheap.

New comment by modeless in "Claude Fable 5"

modeless — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:22:59 +0000

Seems like the harness was minimal with no extra game state or maps available. Apparently just the screen image. Seems like it took 50 hours in game time which according to Google is at the high end of a normal human playthrough. No idea how long it took in real time though.

New comment by modeless in "Claude Fable 5"

modeless — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:14:54 +0000

Claude Fable 5 beats Pokémon FireRed using only vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQBP1w4B1M

New comment by modeless in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

modeless — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:57:12 +0000

Single core performance is the biggest factor for most day-to-day use of a computer, the stuff I do on a laptop. It's more important than peak multi core performance for web browsing and games. I only care about multi core performance when I'm compiling, and I usually do heavy compiles on a remote machine rather than on my laptop.

New comment by modeless in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

modeless — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:36:54 +0000

Qualcomm has been upstreaming Linux support for some of their chips but they're not working fast enough and I don't think the latest chips are there yet unfortunately.

New comment by modeless in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

modeless — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:17:19 +0000

The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme trounces Nvidia's chip in single core CPU performance. It beats Intel and AMD's best, too. It has unified memory. It's the only CPU in the same league as Apple's M-series in both CPU performance and power efficiency. And it's available in laptops today, not later this year. People are sleeping on Qualcomm.

New comment by modeless in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

modeless — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:13:52 +0000

Dreams for PS4 used point splatting and has a very unique look as a result. The splats were created from distance fields instead of being scanned, so they don't look like modern gaussian splats. They have a painterly look instead. https://youtu.be/2ltgkcoQzow

New comment by modeless in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

modeless — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:29:47 +0000

Single-core CPU performance is going to be fully 20% slower than Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. People are sleeping on Qualcomm's latest. It's the only chip out there to approach Apple's single core CPU performance and power efficiency.

New comment by modeless in "Debug Project"

modeless — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:58:56 +0000

They are releasing sterile males of one specific species, infected with a naturally occurring bacteria that naturally infects them in the wild as well. It's hard to imagine a more targeted or less objectionable method than this. If you won't accept this method then you're essentially arguing we should never attempt to reduce the invasive mosquito population by any means, which I will have to respectfully but strongly disagree with.

New comment by modeless in "Debug Project"

modeless — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:20:58 +0000

Thus making it "a similar tool for the modern era" as you were asking for, IMO.

My favorite thing about WinDbg is that many people pronounce it "Windbag".

New comment by modeless in "Debug Project"

modeless — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:17:52 +0000

The species is not native. Surely we can agree that eradicating non-native species is a good thing?