Nathaniel Whittemore

I don't believe in heavy-handed legislation.

I don't believe in governing by fear or the precautionary principle.

I trust in the collective wisdom of humanity.

We are a distributed intelligence.

We always seem to find a way forward.

In a riff on Churchill's old take, we always do the right thing after exhausting every other possibility.

AI is a risk, a wonderful one, but so is every technology ever in the history of the world.

In truth, AI is likely to be a strong force for good, even if it is also used for bad things like surveillance and weapons of war too.

Mythos is impressive, genuinely impressive.

It represents a real milestone in what's possible.

But it's a tool, not a god.

It's a very sophisticated hammer and we still need people, lots of them, arguing and tinkering and building things nobody predicted, to figure out what's worth building.

We need people with access, not ivory towers.

The collective wisdom of millions of free minds iterating in parallel will run circles around any single system no matter how powerful.

So yes, take mythos seriously.

Take the moment seriously.

But don't mistake awe for a reason to start taking crazy steps or panicking.

We've been the species that looks at the impossible, shrugs, and gets to work.

That hasn't changed.

Bet on humanity.