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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And even though the examples they were giving... So they just said, scheming just started rising.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I guess AI is becoming sentient.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And then I looked at the biggest spike.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I was like, well, this day in February on this chart had the biggest spike.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It was like, oh, there was this one tweet about OpenClaw erasing someone's emails, and then it got retweeted.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It went super viral.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I was like, okay, great.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

You just...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The real headline of this article, letting people write their own agents leads to terrible agents.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That's it.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And also, Opus is not doing that.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The stupid OpenClaw program you wrote that's prompting Opus and then taking action on your computer based on what it says is deleting your files.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The program you wrote that you gave access to your files and just said, whatever we get from this prompt...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

execute it is a race in your files.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Opus can't do anything.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It can produce tokens.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But here's the other point I want to make about mythos that I don't think is being made.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And it reminds you of the Sherlock Holmes story of the dog that didn't bark, right?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Where the actual piece of evidence that mattered is not what you heard, but what you didn't hear.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

This is what I think the real story here is, is you did not hear Dario Amadei in the lead up to the Mythos release in the last year, let's say, or the last two years.