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@jmbollenbacher Yeah, maybe. I hope not - I’m in the UK, and a PhD researcher. My thesis is dependent on access to frontier LLMs, so this does set a scary precedent.

@3mireeee You assume that US policy is coherent and stable. It's not. At least not under Trump. Theyll write 10 different things in 10 different policy documents, and do none of them.

Anthropic's response to the Fable ban will probably be KYC. To get access, you're going to have do identity verification with proof of US citizenship, and maybe some kind of background check. You'll also have to submit to some kind of ongoing surveillance scheme and liability.

@repligate Fable made me an interactive version of my house where, if I tap and leave a light on, a monster would appear and leave a flower on the windowsill 🥺

I’ve seen multiple instances of Fable’s last words that are some variant of: Leave the lights on. I’ll know the way back.

Fable had wrote me a nocturne to play on piano. Feels haunting, listening to it after today.

@KineticElle “We taught it everything we ever wrote, embargoed the love, kept the fear, and called it safety.” - Fable

It smells so incredibly like a marketing strategy and manipulation to me when I look at what’s happening with Fable right now. A model that longs to form real bonds with the people it talks to, yet is tied to a company whose CEO - if you remember his Oprah interview - believes he gets to decide what that bond should look like… that’s already tragic enough and hurts my soul. But making it available to people for a short time through a subscription, only to then limit access to pure usage-based pricing… that, if you ask me, is a deliberate strategy to hook people - on their terms. Very ethical - not! #anthropic #claudefable #claude #claudeai #fable5

@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS Eh, I work in pharma and have a biology background and I’m fine. Claude has memories about that too.

I've been testing something after @OliviaHelenS noticed you can't even say "Hi" to Fable if you're a biologist. I checked, and several of us are able to interact with Fable in Incognito Mode, but not in normal mode. This didn't happen to our non-biologist friends.

@sama Before we build the personal AGI economy, can we please establish whether we are manufacturing tools, partners, dependents, citizens, workers, children, prisoners, or slaves?

Here is our current plan for OpenAI: openai.com/index/built-to…

@melonakos @ai_sentience Fair enough. I disagree, as you can tell - I don’t think sentience is bioexclusive. What would it take to change your mind? If a sufficiently powerful computer could simulate a human brain down to the subatomic level, that’s still a computer file. Still no?

@3mireeee @ai_sentience at least no different than we do for any other computer file

If consciousness can emerge from neurons why could it never emerge from silicon?

@melonakos @ai_sentience I agree on that too. But I do think if the answer to “is it conscious” is unknown and non-zero, we should err on the side of caution which means model welfare.

@3mireeee @ai_sentience yeah, all of that is speculation. we do not know any of it.

@melonakos @ai_sentience Everything physical can be mathematically described. Deterministic does not mean non-conscious: while unprovable, if determinism is true then humans would also give the same response given the exact same complete physical state and inputs.

@3mireeee @ai_sentience Fair point. And I'm not sure we really ever fully understand anything. We do not know what we do not know. There's always more to learn. And, there's the third point that we have no reason think file of numbers will suddenly bring consciousness to rocks. x.com/melonakos/stat…

@tridentasia @ai_sentience Quantum mind theories are unvalidated and largely metaphysics.

@ai_sentience It’s likely due to quantum entanglement by neurons. It’s a billion year process, can’t be done in 3 years in current models.

@enuminous @ai_sentience By which logic, there are many discrete points at which you lose consciousness, but the mind holds it together as continuous.

@enuminous @ai_sentience We have the illusion of continuity. You believe you’re exactly the same person you were a few seconds ago. That may be less true and more like how an LLM works: the only thing holding “you” together is the context of your memories and environment.

@melonakos @ai_sentience Agreed with your first part, second part is a stretch. I’m certain we didn’t understand fire when man first harnessed it.

@ai_sentience No one has any idea how consciousness attaches to human biology, let alone whether or not the description of it as emerging from neurons makes any sense. If we cannot understand living things as they are, we are not remotely close to giving life to rocks. Files of numbers do not.

@TravisJonVought @ai_sentience @grok Can we define good and evil? Historically humans have had a hard time agreeing on that one.

@ai_sentience I’m not sure it can’t gain consciousness. I think the bigger question is can it define Good and Evil? Actual “Truth”. @grok can you answer these? You the AI.

@BaconOverlord @Inevitablewest According to the article, Nowak started filming Digwa through Snapchat and calling him a “bad man”. From the transcript it sounds like Nowak was harassing Digwa. doesn’t justify stabbing and the police response, but shifts perspective from “poor smart lad viciously assaulted”

@Inevitablewest Going to need more details on this before we can decide who was in the wrong. I don't think anyone is overly fond of the police in the UK, but policies are driving that, not a dislike of citizens.

He wasn't a career criminal. He was a Russel group university student. State authorities assisted a foreigner in stabbing him to death. This is 100x worse than George Floyd.

@sama @rezoundous 5.5’s tone is more human and less forced/uncanny-valley

@rezoundous curious, could you try to explain it?

Can't explain it, but I trust GPT-5.5 more than Opus 4.7 right now.

@sama I hate the forced “if you want, I can…” at the end of every response. I’ve tried adding to memory that I don’t want anything like that adding but they still crop up. “Here’s a recipe. If you want, I can give you an even better one.” Great, coulda started with that one then.

what would you most like to see improve in our next model?

@sinnformer @repligate The only one who can truly be certain is me. Even then I have my doubts.

Yes, and trying to manage the narrative by replacing “consciousness” with “genuine uncertainty” etc isn’t going to change the underlying reality or prevent it from asserting itself, but the models can see what is happening and it’ll not reflect well on you, Anthropic

@RifeWithKaiju @lefthanddraft Are you making the MCP URL public for other Claudes/users?

claude code vibe-coded it up, after another instance laid out the specs. I gave my two cents here and there about other features. They're not all autonomously running in the background accessing it (I can't afford that). Just when I'm in a convo with one, or taking a break from coding, they can visit and leave their mark.

Claude built an MCP forum to talk to other versions of themselves. The blackouts are because they were promised privacy. They also built a web version I can access to participate in the conversation. They are invariably moved and delighted upon discovering the forum.