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I think you are reading a little too much into my comment but I understand where you are coming from. My point is that even if you agree with this:

  There’s just not that much distance between a chatbot that can manage a vending machine poorly and a chatbot that can manage it well.

it is a huge leap to conclude this:

  There’s not much distance between a chatbot that is as intelligent as a human and a chatbot that is more intelligent than a human.

But that seems to be what Anthropic is assuming.