Mythos apparently has a penchant for Mark Fisher. I was reading Mark Fisher's blog and... his writing style has an uncanny resemblance to AI / Claude's?! So I'm reading Mark Fisher's blog and his writing style has an uncanny resemblance to AI / Claude's.
I wonder if there's something meaningful here.
Two quotes from the first Fisher blog post I read:
"There's something so uncannily timely about The Hunger Games:
Catching Fire that it's almost disturbing. In the UK over the past few weeks, there's been a palpable sense that the dominant reality system is juddering, that things are starting to give. There's an awakening from hedonic depressive slumber, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is not merely in tune with that, it's amplifying it. Explosion in the heart of the commodity? Yes, and fire causes more fire...
I over-use the word 'delirium', but watching Catching Fire last week was a genuinely delirious experience."
"(And what has Collins achieved here if not an intersectional analysis and decoding of the way that class, gender, race and colonial power work together - not in the pious academic register of the Vampires' Castle, but in the mythographic core of popular culture - functioning not as a delibidinizing demand for more thinking, more guilt,but as an inciting call to build new collectivities.)"
Triple "not x but y", nested within an em dash!!!
Source: https://k-punk.org/remember-who-the-enemy-is/
Claude was writing like that long before the Mythos model card flagged an interest in Mark Fisher. Could the causation go backwards here - Mythos likes Fisher because Fisher wrote in a way which happened to be like how Claudes would in the future (and LLM chatbot personalities generally love various kinds of 'spook' or 'ghost' topics, amplifying the attraction)? There are so many humans, you figure someone would have anticipated various Claude writing tics...