> Its a bit concerning when someone supposedly intelligent still speaks somewhat highly of someone so clearly not.

Have you considered the possibility that someone you regard as extremely intelligent is speaking from real-life experience and direct proximity when they say another person is smart?

Or perhaps your bias toward Musk make that impossible to even consider.

Yes, the world absolutely needs more purity tests. Would you like to take the lead? Oh, and shaming. We should definitely be shaming more people because it has proven to be so productive.

You can still respect the work of someone who is a complete pos. The same way you can criticize the bad work of a very nice person.

Do you have examples of these points?

Publicly disavowing Musk is going to be a bit difficult when his new employer just leased an entire datacentre from Elon Musk's SpaceX. Anthropic and Elon Musk seem to have quite warm feelings towards one another lately.