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EPISODE · Jul 8, 2026 · 8 MIN

“Experiments With Fabel’s Fiction” by Tomás B.

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In keeping with my tradition and given I will lose access to Fabel in a couple days, I have asked fable to read all my organically written short stories and attempt to write one in my style. It output the following: There's LLM-written text here. Claude Fable writes:en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural__ The Last Complainer I want it on the record that I complained about the job before I took it. This is, if you think about it, the strongest possible qualification, and the Ministry thought about it, because the Ministry thinks about everything, usually before you do, usually before you were born. The position is formally titled Registered Dissenting Voice (Human), Grade II. There is no Grade I. When I asked why, the intake system said that a Grade I implied the possibility of promotion, and that the psychological literature on complainers — it said the literature, the way a priest says the Fathers — showed that a complainer with prospects stops complaining and starts networking. I said that was cynical. It thanked me for my feedback. That was my first day, and in a sense my whole career, compressed. Let me describe the work, because my granddaughter asked me [...] --- First published: July 7th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/84h6fB4vFB2gv33Mu/experiments-with-fabel-s-fiction --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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