[freedomben]

Well said, I have the same instinct but couldn't quite articulate why until reading your comment. You said it well.

In life I find the key to understanding people/behavior (as much as is possible) is to look at the incentives*, motivation, what's driving them. It's rarely simple, usually multi-variable calculus, but you can predict reasonably better than a random guess by trying to understand motivations/incentives. Anthropic is split between the financial incentive and the zealotry, and it sure shows (wonder why Anthropic is doing this right after their IPO push?? Makes more sense given the incentives. Money + zealotry)

*Of course you don't want to anthropomorphize corporations too much, but they still respond heavily to incentives so it does carry over there, plus at least for now they're still run by humans making decisions (except for the Lawn Mower who runs Oracle of course)