Pick your perdition - Anthropic's throwing dice like Pascal on his deathbed

Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text Read Time: 12 min Topics: AI, total annihilation Tone: Grumpy Pick Your PerditionEveryone's talking about the money. I'm stuck on page 80. The coverage of Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus has been almost entirely about capital. A $42 billion net loss (most of it on paper, an accounting artifact of investor obligations, but still). Nearly a quarter of its revenue coming from just two customers. A valuation pushing $2 trillion. Fine. Big numbers. But the line I can't stop rereading is this one, from CNN via Reuters: Anthropic dedicated 80 pages to its risk factors in the leaked prospectus, significantly more than the 48 pages it spent detailing its business, according to Reuters. — CNN Emphasis mine. Eighty pages of ways this could go wrong. Forty-eight pages of what they actually do. I'm not an AI doomer. I'm an anticapitalist, regulation-positive elder Millennial, which is arguably worse, because I think we'll find a way to end things…