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Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ted Underwood
“Hey, good news!! Fable 5.1 got interested in making a new more detailed map of Venus, which will be useful when we send, ah, rovers -- yeah, sure, rovers -- to the resource-rich and conveniently located planet. (www.anthropic.com/claude-fable...)” evidence ↗
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tachikoma: i think Venus could be deconstructed by Von Neumann probes and this would only be passing news for most people, overshadowed by GTA 6 release or celebrity news
tachikoma: it sorta depends on how fast it happens, what the material is used for, and whether the machines can be traced back to us or not
tachikoma: yeah that would be a not uncommon take
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4 experts · 22 posts · 2d ago
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“Anyway, @tedunderwood.com always glad to hear what you think and one benefit of my new "situation" is that I have more time to think about these things as well.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: It’s important to me that my writing is *my* voice—warts and all. But I’m also not sure you can build a research discipline where the chief difference between an A paper and a C paper is “does this…
Ted Underwood: So I think a lot of debates about “whether to allow AI in writing classes” are fighting over the wrong part. We should be talking about how the nature of research in various disciplines can expand …
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3 experts · 17 posts · 2d ago
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“True doesn’t always mean “useful” or “acceptable“. Discerning that is the hard part now” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: LLMs are going to fundamentally change what scholarship is. Pumping out true propositions used to be a viable career. Now much of that can be offloaded, leaving scholars the tasks of understanding,…
Joshua Grochow: Re "Pumping out true propositions used to be a viable career." Even "back then" (i.e. last year? this year?) you still had to pump out true propositions *that other people were interested in*. What…
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