"They're Midwifing a Deity." - Bill Gurley on Anthropic's Digital God

Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most negatively outspoken commenter on what they do. And my initial theory was the regulatory capture theory. Quite frankly, I think they're very close to achieving that. But then they just got so loud that I I've literally in the past 30 days read everything I can about Anthropic and I've come up with a new theory. >> New breaking theory. >> I call it the Dr. Frankenstein theory. The more I dig, I've met people who I dare say think it's their responsibility and they're excited about building a species that's superior to humans. Dario

wrote this blog post called Machines of Loving Grace. It was based on a poem. The last stanza of the poem says, "I like to think of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and join back to nature, return to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace." Sounds like Overlord to me. And then in Dario's post, he says, "It could be a capitalist economy of AI systems which then give out resources to humans based on some secondary economy of what the AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans." So, I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here. >> These are delusions of grandeur. Let's

call it what it is. They believe that they're so powerful, these individuals, that they can create God. And that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species. It literally is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.