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A test we must continue to pass 100% of the time, but need only fail once.
Even in the short time since we have developed the capability to annihilate ourselves, there have been dozens of accidents, false alarms, and near misses.
I am confident that on a long enough time line we will manage to fuck this up.
Anyone who has even slept through a history class will still have learned by osmosis that This Is Not How Things Have Ever Worked.
The wealthy and powerful have always held contempt for the poor and powerless, but for better or worse they needed them as a source of both cheap labor and, from time to time, as cannon fodder against their rivals. This part is what they can see possibly changing, and they are really, really, really hoping that they don't need you anymore.
People who say, "Well, who will they sell everything to if no one has a job" are stuck thinking in the past. When your existence is no longer tolerated, but now actively a nuisance, there is no need for a consumer economy supporting millions of people. While their vanity requires keeping some number of the permanent underclass around so they they will always have someone to degrade and feel superior to, I don't see this amounting to more than a few thousand underlings huddled in various competing compounds, and even this custom is likely be to be abandoned entirely by those who seek to transcend humanity itself.
The tech oligarchs and their boosters are doing more to radicalize the US populace than Bernie or AOC ever could.
The mask has been slipping for a while, but a combination of Trump getting elected and AI psychosis has lead to a lot of premature celebration over their belief in being the new masters of the permanent underclass. Now the the mask is completely off and revealed them for the disgusting reptiles they have always been.
They stole all the data for the model in the first place so fair is fair.
Advertisements for the latest release of a product in 2026 are wild
When you are telling every media outlet and investor that you are building a system which intends to capture all of the economic value, then don't be surprised when people take you at your word.
This is the routing of parts of a task to cheaper models dressed up as some kind of innovation in efficiency. Why anyone takes anything this guy has to say at face value is beyond me.
This article is literally the meme of the guy sitting in the middle of a room on fire confidently declaring "this is fine".
I have watched multiple times now where those most excited are the least capable. They prompt something out of an LLM and feel the thrill of vicarious creativity. They have never been able to do something like this before, and it feels good.
They show their barely working demo to management who is also excited. It kind of works if you don't look too closely, but includes features and screens no one asked for or can explain, tables and graphs which turn out to be static artifacts using made up data (in one case I saw a pie graph which when summed, exceeded 100%), is a security nightmare, and simple changes must be made across the handful of functions which are hundreds or thousands of lines long, because there is no separation of concerns.
Eventually they turn this steaming pile of "prototype" over to an engineer who is asked to get it ready to ship because "the product team was having trouble adding the few extra features, but it should be easy, just use AI".
I can't tell if this is stupidity, an elaborate joke, or maybe I am already dead and this is some kind of purgatory.
It's telling that even Plan A describes a world I don't want to live in.
One where humans are increasingly pushed to the periphery to make room for data centers and the human population is subsumed by robots.
Who is this future serving? Not me. Fuck this.
No one getting rich off data centers wants to live next to one, which kind of tells you everything you need to know. They are a gigantic externality, plunked down in the midst of people who do not benefit from them, but have to bear the costs of the noise, pollution, and increased energy and water costs.
I just know I'm going to end up having to pay more for a phone that doesn't have all this AI bullshit on it.
This is an extremely short-sighted and surface-level take.
Regarding what is available, imagine a system with reports and dashboards showing a timeline of which application was in focus and for how long, metrics on "activity" like keypresses and mouse clicks, periods of inactivity, lists of websites visited, whether you are joining scheduled zoom meetings, whether your camera was on, when you badged into and out of the office, periodic photos being taken from your webcam, geolocation on where you sign in from, and I could go on.
Most of these things are available bundled with most of the business Microsoft subscriptions while other telemetry comes from other tools or homegrown sources and is available to managers and IT staff on demand. Now, most of the time no one was really looking at most of this unless they had a reason to, and while I am no longer in this end of things since LLMs have reached this stage of maturity, I can imagine they are now being tasked with constantly watching for patterns in worker activity which deviate from the expected norm and are fully capable of notifying your manager automatically along with a detailed analysis of your activity.
The thing to understand is that the modern office is a veritable panopticon.
Even during the craze, I never understood why anyone would install a self-monitoring digital surveillance and tracking system in their own home.
Except that due to a bias toward agreeability what actually happens is that it will subtly affirm all of your preconceived notions.
That may be true but this is spoken is if that is a good thing and not going to become a gigantic albatross around their neck.
Considering Richard Dawkins has recently succumbed to the same delusion it is a reminder that no matter how intelligent someone may otherwise be, we are all human and have certain tendencies and blind spots; anthropomorphizing non-entities being one of those.
I can't think of a single thing that I would want this doing for me. If it's important, it goes nowhere near something like OpenClaw.
Mythos is another grand slam by the Anthropic marketing team.
They issue a provocative public statement dressed up as a safety advisory and then sit back while the media and various industries (who for some reason take this all at face value) generate them tens of millions of dollars in free publicity through their own overreactions.
I would hope most people can recognize that someone trying to sell you something might be among the least trustworthy sources about that thing.
Almost certainly referring to cheating software.
It needs to go well every single day, and only needs to go very poorly once. Not to conflate LLMs with actual super intelligence, but for this (and many other reasons related to basic human dignity), this is not a technology that a responsible society should be attempting to build. We need our very own Butlerian Jihad
LLMs can't reason because they fundamentally don't understand anything they generate.
A federal agent executes a man in broad daylight because while a gang of them are beating him for having the gall to try and help a woman who had fallen to the ground they finally noticed he was carrying a gun. Meanwhile the government tries to tell you that he was the aggressor despite the entire encounter having been filmed from multiple angles and which directly contradict the official explanation. The best Altman can muster is that they have gone "too far".
Like anyone wants an OS that not only gatekeeps the software you run but surveils everything you do.