
You did concede the point in the post I replied to, which is why I replied to it. I do tend to think that affording people one disagrees with more grace at the time of disagreement is probably prudent. To that end, setting aside pedantic points about whatever the original tweet was referring to, I'm not at all shocked by Anthropic's decisions this week, because my analysis at the time was not based on some sort of personal animus or whatever was ascribed to me, but simply incentives and long-run trends. That analysis holds in terms of this decision. People's declarations and promises change, *especially* when they hold themselves to be moral actors. Suggesting that anyone pointing that out is faking their beliefs to make a point risks missing the more important point completely.



