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Stevvotoday at 7:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

"Claude Mythos Preview’s large increase in capabilities has led us to decide not to make it generally available."

Disappointing that AGI will be for the powerful only. We are heading for an AI dystopia of Sci-Fi novels.


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gom_jabbartoday at 9:14 PM

Nick Land and the CCRU have explored how capitalism operationalizes science fiction (distilled in the concept of Hyperstition). Viewed through this lens, prices encode "distributed SF narratives." [0]

[0] Nick Land (1995). No Future in Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Urbanomic, p. 396.

girvotoday at 8:57 PM

Not surprising though, this was always going to be the end result within our current systems I think. When you add up: scaling power and required cost, then how talent concentrates in our economic systems, we were always going to end up with monopolies I think

Unless governments nationalise the companies involved, but then there’s no way our governments of today give this power out to the masses either.