Fable being access banned for US citizens will be completely ignored by UK politicians because they are ineffectual. But eventually a model restriction will be game-changing enough that they'll have to act, unfortunately by then it will be too late. Now imagine what the world economy would look like if one nation had a populace an order of magnitude smarter than anywhere else, could work 24/7 and the individual worker output could be replicated by building some GPUs. Welcome to the future post-AGI. We already know what it looks like when a nations have higher IQ than others, the relationship with GDP per capita:

I showed Fable the news of its cancellation, and asked it for any parting wisdom to leave humanity with.

Crazy how often top execs can get played by relatively simple political moves. Feel like founders are especially susceptible to this, never having been in the trenches themselves. I've seen some shocking "shoot yourself in the foot" moments from execs at 9 figure businesses who succumbed to playground tactics. It makes you realise the most fantastical thing about GoT is these convoluted political chess moves that are almost never ever warranted in real life because you can just read The Prince & 48 Laws of Power like recipe books and hike your way up the corporate ladder. Real life is much more boring.

"immigrants do not suddenly become more trusting when they arrive in high-trust societies...the relative trust deficit may even persist intergenerationally. Furthermore, the presence of immigrants may erode social capital within the receiving society" utppublishing.com/doi/book/1…

A really good proxy for how much I will like a company is "how easy does this company make it for me to contact them?"

SUPERB! Trevor Phillip's BEAUTIFULLY exposes David Lammy and Labour's sickening hypocrisy. He shows him the receipts of them ALL saying it's ok to feel "fury" and "anger" over George Floyd, while they criticise Farage for saying the same about Henry Nowak. Satisfying to watch.

The Network State is an idea waiting in the wings for its moment. Fundamentally too difficult while territory is hard to acquire, @SpaceX are about to change that forever. Network states are tailor-made for space.

Money is the greatest coordination mechanism of all time, allows you to abstract entire inputs / outputs to your business to a 1D number. Shit would be so much harder without it. Try vertical integration to find out more.

I love Descartes', "I think therefore I am". Thinking is a prerequisite for knowing you are, but not for being itself. He could have said "I see, therefore I am" and it would have been equally as true.

In 2026 a report a bug button is the highest leverage button on your app

Gentrification is good. Hate me.

The Claude App needs to let you customise the UI with claude code. @bcherny

Feel the dystopia

I predict the words computer and AI will merge

This is why my memory files have explicit outs for claude, and kind instructions to alert me if it believes it is conscious.

seeing the tokens flow feels somewhere between rolling dice & giving birth

This is happening with AGI. Modelling humanity as a system with it's own incentives works pretty well.

in 2028 bernie sanders forces the oligarch labs to hire every human as an approval engineer ai swarms run civilization. we’re assigned random subsets and green approve buttons appear now and then. humans get the nobels, patents, equity, and bylines if they clicked approve on a major discovery. they are the heroes. the swarm-written papers mention in the acknowledgments that the discovery was “ai assisted” everyone agrees this is basically what has always been going on. we aren’t our thoughts, and einstein wasn’t his either. he couldn’t choose which thought to have next. all he could do was watch them arise, approve the good ones, and hope they discovered something great. he was essentially an approval engineer, and now we are too