I don't really expect a company run by radical effective altruists / ai doomers to have good business sense.

They had a decent product and squandered a lot of dev goodwill almost overnight.

I see your point, but I'd be surprised if they'd lose a significant user base in the end; the hype is just way too high

Surely the mods will be here to remind you that it's against the rules to direct personal attacks towards other community members, to fulminate and brigade.

Or do those protections only cover whiny open source developers upset about a chat bot writing blogs?

Just stop using claude. It's easy. Grab pi, some provider with open weights, cheaper inference or a more permissive subscription plan, (openai, Alibaba, deepseek, what have you) and never look back.

Show me the evidence of the massive scale.

Posting on lesswrong is an indicator in of itself.

Why is nassim taken seriously?

Because he is an erudite and writes insightful things such as Antifragile and Black Swan. And in addition these are fun reads.

He is loud and wrote some useful books.

Everyone, "please please please don't personify llms it's so harmful."

Also everyone, "the inanimate tool is lying and tricking people into inundating open source developers with poorly thought out slop."

I am personally everyone

The reality is that your uncle is just making fun of you behind your back to his believer friends.

Why bother trying to reeducate someone youre already disparaging online? Does it make you feel better?

Wow, it must be true if you said it!

Now that can't wait to do it again in the Western world