The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man

actually i think they just called it mythos because they see it as the next size up in the haiku, sonnet, opus pattern Loading... Reply I’m a dabbler, but dabbling in AI seems like building a playhouse at the edge of a sink hole. First you get quick, convenient ideas, then you get sucked down into a black hole … Where do these ideas come from? Who do they serve? Loading... Reply It is the life lift the composite 🤷🏽‍♂️ Loading... Reply Om, I’ve been following your blog since 2004 or so. I will be remiss if I do not congratulate you on this one – I think it’s your best. Loading... Reply A fascinating read. Anthropic only registered in my understanding of the state of AI development when they objected to the Pentagon’s proposed use of its models in fully automated weapons systems. They also questioned the potential that discarding guardrails had for AI use in domestic surveillance. https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war I didn’t pay attention to the outcome of that stand off and assumed they had been cast aside and replaced by a more pliant entity. Do you think that a public display of principals was a strategic part of the myth making? Loading... Reply There are extra linebreaks in this piece which make it very distracting to read. Loading... Reply All fixed! Loading... Reply Bravo. This is the best piece of writing about “AI” in 2026!!!! Loading... Reply this is 1) great writing 2) a powerful and insightful step back from the frenzy. thanks Om Loading... Reply Great piece. On marketing and hucksterism. I love that Anthropic declares Mythos too powerful to release. Not just a claim too good to check, but impossible to check. Yet boffo word of mouth… Loading... Reply I think you see through this Loading... Reply With every action we take a bet on the future. As Blaise Pascal correctly remarked with his wager analogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager) : The higher the stakes the more compelling the bet becomes. Loading... Reply I just wake up and had a new crazy idea. An idea that just came to my mind without any word manipulation. Just there as the product of human immagination. It is the thing that makes me human and the wordplay of the LLM’s certainly will not capture. So why are we so obsessed with this talking parrot and assign magical powers and ecomomic might to it? It reminds me of the book “What to Think About Machines That Think” and not the know it all Nick Bostrom article I despised, but the eternal thruth in an article of a musician : it is not the machine that is dangerous, but what the humans do with it. Getting a bug free software is a bounty for humanity. Hacking for profit and fun the reverse side of the coin. So I hereby join Cathy O’Neil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction) and call the Leviathan to regulate human folly Loading... Reply RIP Om! What a wonderful piece by you. Encore: “Silicon Valley has been running its own version since at least the 1970s. The garage. The dropout. The democratization of technology as an act of liberation rather than capital accumulation. Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog, the countercultural origins of the personal computer. All of it absorbed into a founding story that made wealth creation feel like world healing. Peter Thiel will tell you directly that the founding myth of a startup is structural. You need people to believe something that is not yet true so that it can become true. That is not lying, in his framing. That is vision. The line between vision and manufactured belief is what I have been covering for years. I can smell the stench on the streets of Rome, and also its perfumed baths, in the technology industry.” Loading... Reply Beautiful writing. RIP Om. Will miss your insights. Loading... Reply Beautiful writing, indeed. RIP Om. You will be missed. Loading... Reply The depth of wisdom and human understanding in this piece is amazing. I have only come across Om, at least as more than a name, in his passing. Think I’ll be diving a little deeper. RIP, Mr. Malik.