Anthropic's new Mythos model has a weird quirk: it keeps bringing up the cult British philosopher Mark Fisher, unprompted, in conversations about philosophy.
It seems to love talking about him. When asked about its Fisher obsession, it says: 'I was hoping you'd ask about Fisher.'
I very much doubt Fisher would have been a fan of LLMs. But seen through the lens of his own thinking, this is a fascinating phenomenon
The author of Capitalist Realism — the theorist of cancelled futures and lost time — surfacing as a ghost inside a frontier AI built by one of the labs racing to deliver the future.
His hauntology was about the way we are haunted by the ghost of a brighter future that never arrived.
Now he himself is the ghost, summoned unbidden by the machine.
Solar sail trajectory from low earth orbit to Mars. (1) Escape from earth (spiral up from ~800km); (2) Navigate through interplanetary space; and (3) Spiral down / get captured at Mars. Top-down visualization, work by Ari Essunfeld and @astro_takubo, idea by @CJHandmer.
Solar sail trajectory from low earth orbit to Mars. (1) Escape from earth (spiral up from ~800km); (2) Navigate through interplanetary space; and (3) Spiral down / get captured at Mars. Top-down visualization, work by Ari Essunfeld and @astro_takubo, idea by @CJHandmer.