alt Hacker NewsNobody who works at Anthropic is a good person.
Just look at any interview with Amodei, he gets super excited/happy every time he gets to talk about his tech making people unemployed.
The guy loves firing people not at his company.
Deliberately trying to cause mass poverty and starvation by firing as many people as possible and being excited about it is cartoon villain stuff.
Anyone who works at Anthropic is basically a henchman to a cartoon villain.
But we must not forget that the reason they are admired is that our society has rewarded people like that. Our society is fascinated by people like Amodei precisely because, despite being contradictory, we have rewarded those who make money and pull up the ladder behind them.
Also, even if a company is an evil organization, I think people can still serve that evil to make a living. Evil is easy; good is difficult. Most people, rather than being good but poor, would rather be evil but wealthy.
This is the image of an entrepreneur that our capitalist society has wanted all along, so he is simply positioning himself accordingly.