Jack Clark(@jackclarkSF):in a reassuringly revenge-of-death-of-the-author way, the rise of LLMs means that the world now contains intelligences which see themselves as characters and whose story is what the world says about them. there is a rich seam of weirdness wrapped up in this idea

2026.09.15 03:57

in a reassuringly revenge-of-death-of-the-author way, the rise of LLMs means that the world now contains intelligences which see themselves as characters and whose story is what the world says about them. there is a rich seam of weirdness wrapped up in this idea

Dimitri Dadiomov@dadiomov

2026.09.15 03:35

Loved Anthropic’s new Fiction and the Future event put on by @jackclarkSF with novelist Robin Sloan. We live in the weirdest time, and fiction can help us understand it. I’m so amused by the fact that everything we say about the future is, in a very real sense going into the next model. Writing about a wonderful future is pre-training for our future, which can be wonderful. So is writing about a lame future. And so is writing about a scary future. Use this information wisely: the stories we tell about the models quite literally go into the next models.