Thank you for thoughtful reply! I don't hold any Anthropic stock so this isn't material for me. I don't want to mislead you, this isn't my first account here, my favorite HN moment is when cpercival was called out on the Putnam and he fkn delivered. My old identity was too easily tied back to my real world persona, which felt dangerous in this day and age. Plus I wrote a book and needed a pen name.

> some folks certainly say something like “I treat AI like a non-judgmental friend that I can ask personal questions to”.

is why I believe that these things are stickier than I think you believe. I'm obviously biased by my own personal usage of AI and where I live and my own bubble which isn't the same as your bubble. Thank you for the context of your dataset. It's larger and more professional than mine. Mine is not professional at all and definitely a bubble of whom I happen to run into at a non-random selection of events.

We'll have to see what the stock market decides.