Absurd late-Soviet Chernenko feel. Both Europe and USA are in deep trouble so it shouldn't be pissing match. But I have many American friends who once making their millions left to live in Europe, you might ask why. It's because their signature experience of USA is stuck in traffic looking at an obese single mom in capri pants by the side of the highway with a mulatto kid in front of strip malls at best; or having your week or year ruined by a false harassment accusation or some absurd lawsuit (often redistribution/lottery by other means). We can quibble on house size, food quality, life expectancy (prior to Trump USA had a falling life expectancy caused by overdoses, suicides, diabetes...about 6-10 yrs after your post-2007 "boom"), etc., but the stress, overwork and wretchedness of life in America especially for younger people, who now have no path to building wealth, is unequaled in the developed world--they have no pleasure or freedom to make up for it either.

An armed quadruped robot designed for military operations.

Fable isn't the first. In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold. Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.

Parsing this evening's events: - The U.S. government approved the release of Fable 5 to the public, clearly under the presumption that the model's cybersecurity capabilities cannot be accessed by hackers, authoritarian regimes, etc. - Recently (today?), "another company" showed the U.S. government that a jailbreak of Fable 5 *is possible*. Yes, a minor jailbreak - but how can a non-technical government official be assured that there aren't also other, more dangerous, jailbreaks in this model that won't be discovered by the CCP? - Anthropic states, completely correctly, that: "We suspect that perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently possible for any model provider. Every safeguard used in the industry is vulnerable to non-universal jailbreaks (which can elicit some cyber information in specific circumstances), and it is likely that universal jailbreaks will eventually be found in the future. We stated this clearly when we released Fable 5." - My best guess is that the U.S. government did not fully realize this at the time when the release of Fable 5 was approved. - Per Axios, the government contacted Anthropic and asked to "pause releasing the... models but was unsuccessful" - i.e., Anthropic told the government to pound sand. - Per Axios, this "prompt[ed] the export control letter". - Per Axios, the U.S. government is *NOT* looking to restrict access to Fable to U.S. nationals forever. "The model needs to remain locked down until the U.S. governent's national security apparatus is hardened", which "could happen in a few weeks". - I interpret Anthropic's reaction as challenging the government: "we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles." If the Axios article is correct, I do not think any other model providers have anything to fear based solely on this evening's events, because: (1) they would hopefully be smarter than downright rejecting a request by the U.S. government to pause releasing a model, and (2) they will be required anyway under the recent executive order to give the U.S. government at least 30 days to test the model for cybersecurity capabilities - during which time the U.S. government would also be able to shore up its own cybersecurity defenses with the same model. I remain extremely concerned that actions by one particular U.S. lab over the last few months might be moving us closer and closer to the scenario where at least that lab - and potentially all others - will be nationalized.

i made a map of everyone on twitter! yes you're on there too ^w^ every account is placed next to the people they talk to, so you can find out where you are, which cluster claimed you, and exactly who you're stuck next to atlas.tiago.zip?ref=launch_t…