[qsera]

He is probably paid to make that argument.

Nothing spreads the idea that "X could be true", better than the putting forward of controversial argument that "X is not true".

[the_af]

> He is probably paid to make that argument.

This is an absurd take if you know anything about Ted Chiang and his previous writings, both fictional and non-fiction. He is most definitely not intentionally marketing for Anthropic. In fact, he hints these are marketing tactics by Anthropic, and they don't believe their own hype.