I'm pretty sure the audience would follow him wherever he goes.
replyAnd that’s the point, thank you!
replyAnthropic should capitalize on this opportunity to undercut their competitor’s platform. They don’t come around often.
Twitter is not a competitor to Anthropic, some random guy with 2m followers leaving would not undercut it in any way, and xAI is literally partnered with Anthropic and selling their compute now.
replyI'm sure Anthropic wants him to have as much reach as possible, not abandon his primary distribution channel just to please an extreme minority of the population.
replyFor folks at this scale,
reply(vs an HN blog author),
networks are communication and dissemination tools,
not principled stances.
For worse. It’s distinctly for worse.
replyEh, as someone who isn't terribly interested in seeing non-stop low effort promotion of garbage AI products, I don't mind that they congregate on a site I rarely visit.
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