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Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never ever seen a company that is both leading
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their field and the most negatively outspoken commenter on what they do. And my initial theory was the regulatory
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capture theory. Quite frankly, I think they're very close to achieving that.
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But then they just got so loud that I I've literally in the past 30 days read
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everything I can about Anthropic and I've come up with a new theory. >> New breaking theory.
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>> I call it the Dr. Frankenstein theory. The more I dig, I've met people who I
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dare say think it's their responsibility and they're excited about building a
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species that's superior to humans. Dario wrote this blog post called Machines of
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Loving Grace. It was based on a poem. The last stanza of the poem says, "I like to think of a cybernetic ecology
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where we are free of our labors and join back to nature, return to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched
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over by machines of loving grace." Sounds like Overlord to me. And then in Dario's post, he says, "It could be a
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capitalist economy of AI systems which then give out resources to humans based on some secondary economy of what the AI
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systems think makes sense to reward in humans." So, I don't think they think
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they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here. >> These are delusions of grandeur. Let's
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call it what it is. They believe that they're so powerful, these individuals,
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that they can create God. And that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species. It literally
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is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.