Mythos and Engels' Pause - by Doug O'Laughlin
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The first permanent underclass, and what that would look like today.
Engels' Pause and the Permanent Underclass Mythos means John Henry lost Doug O'Laughlin Apr 15, 2026 206 5 21 Share Mythos to me is yet another game changer. It is interesting to see that the naysayers of bubble talk have started to abate, while general optimism (and paranoia) about model improvement continues. Mythos is actually some kind of step change, and the fact that anyone with access to the model could in theory find zero day exploits with a simple prompt is ground breaking. I’d argue that a machine that can find zero day exploits at scale is proof of human cybersecurity researcher dis
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