> Also love: scientists get to pay Anthropic to work within their special science harness to do science. That's exactly what I dreamed of doing when I pursued physics in undergrad, one or two companies holding the keys to "progress" for a monthly subscription price.

I get this anxiety, and am largely an AI skeptic, but at one point there were only a handful of computers in the world too (same for batteries, or engines, or crucibles, or stills -- it goes way back), and the organizations that had them had a stranglehold on progress in the field, as did the small number of companies who knew how to make them. It got better as they got cheaper and more plentiful.

I guess my point is that there are more important anxieties to feed when it comes to LLMs and the current state of the world.

> I get this anxiety, and am largely an AI skeptic, but at one point there were only a handful of computers in the world too

I don't see how that makes the state of affairs any better.