Comment by jauntywundrkind

Theads now of "Doctorow vs Zuboff", perhaps the two biggest critics of tech today, but Doctorow noting how Zuboff's criticism is really a radical super over amplification of ad-tech/big-tech's pitch, heightened to the point of being much scarier than the initial pitch. More than accepting the pitch, radically over accentuating the effectiveness of the ad-tech proposition! Yes ad-tech totally completely understands you! In vastly deep ways! How horrifying right? No, please don't keep signing up for your business to succeed by tapping this incredible keep infinitely detailed knowledge-bank of humanity that can predict everything! Don't give them money to make your business wildly successful beyond dream for their incredible insight! That would be so bad if their amazing tech let you exploit the population to amazingly target delivery of what you are selling! How horrible how effective it is!! https://www.cigionline.org/articles/doctorow-versus-zuboff/ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/cory_doctorow...

This is happening so so strongly. All the time. But today especially. Mythos is a cult forming social technology much more than it is a technical technology. I'm going to be pretty wrong on that cynicism, I know! But also, it portrays a reality of what is happening. Mythos is being built as a Devs like diety with rule and domonion and awe. It drinks the nectar forbidden to man. We may not even sample this realm's tastes, nay! It would be ruin!!

The idea that this preciariat-launch to some trusted security firms is going to do jack all to actually build a base against what comes next is a joke. Maybe there is something to it, but my strong expectation is that the beneficiaries are not softwares of the world, not open source in any form, but some narrow closed far off present-day losers who have broadly bad bad bad systems that are just too big to embarrass. Too big too shame.

But more so, that this model gains a cascade of levels of notoriety by being Zuboff style too good to release.

Thus begins the new age. Hardware is now broadly post consumer, too expensive to buy. Mythos means nothing, is nothing. It's just the Zuboff excuse to roll the ladder up further, the reason to move from GPT-5.4 Pro prices of $270/1m tokens output to $2700+++/1m tokens. Mythos is the Zuboffian campaign to train us for the next 10x price increase. To tell us everything we have done is shit.

And given its costs to run: that's still going to be nowhere near enough!