So you're perfectly okay with repeatedly paying for a shit product, getting shat on by the company in the form of being tested for feedback, and "maybe" getting a better product in the future. Mind you, that "better" isn't necessarily better for you but more explicitly better for the company you're paying.
Sounds like someone who doesn't care about being a sheep. Or maybe someone whose salary depends on having sheep.
I think you are making far too wide-sweeping statements. I think most people here probably agree that if Anthropic drops Claude Code from the Pro plan after people have paid with the understanding that it is part of the package, that would be wrong, and they deserve to lose business over it. However, there are plenty of situations where A/B testing is entirely benign, and I would not have any problem with a company doing that testing without getting consent first. Every form of A/B testing is not done just for the gain of the company doing the testing.
He had a very close, decades long friendship with the most notorious sex-trafficker-of-children-to-rich-creeps in modern history for decades. And when imprisoned, that infamous pedophile died while in a federal prison under Trump's control, with a strange gap in the CCTV video footage. And Trump's handling of the entire Epstein Files saga makes it clear that Trump is described extensively in those files and he desperately wants to conceal it. What could be in there that he would use the entire justice department to try and redact? Trump is shameless about things that are legal even if they're salacious (like sleeping with porn star Stormy Daniels), so you have to wonder, what could Jeffery Epstein's good friend be trying to conceal?
Also, he owned the Miss Universe org (including Miss USA and Miss Teen USA) for decades, and he was known to walk into the dressing rooms of teen contestants as young as 15 while they were undressed. [0]
Also, he bragged about molesting women, and a court of law found that he sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll.
I haven't proven the case that Trump had sex with a minor, but there's way more than enough probable cause to believe it's more likely than not.
Imagine there's a camera continuously recording a cookie jar. A child eats all of the cookies and then deletes the footage from the time they ate the cookies. A parent returns to find their child covered in crumbs, loudly proclaiming they haven't eaten a cookie in years and actively interferes with the parent's investigation and tries to distract from it by throwing a brick through the window of an Iranian family down the street.
Are any of the facts in this hypothetical "evidence"? With the knowledge of the truth (that the kid ate the cookies), it's clear these are all relevant pieces of evidence. If we take knowledge of the truth out of the equation, would these facts still be evidence? Unambiguously they would.
Definitionally both circumstantial and direct evidence are forms of evidence. No modifier is necessary.
And incidentally you can be convicted in a court of law purely on circumstantial evidence, and that's the place in society where we have the highest standard of proof. The evidence all being circumstantial is not a gotcha.
This isn't court. The evidence, such as it is, is all of the smoke which commonly motivates people to look for fire. The strongest and most comprehensive that I've seen is the argument that if Trump was not implicated in the Epstein files, he would be publishing them in free book form himself and forcing every media outlet to advertise it. Slight exaggeration, but I think truly only slight.
Not really relevant to the thread, but there are simple answers to the "eViDeNcE??" question. You may have already known this.
Strangely enough, my first test with Sonnet 4.6 via the API for a relatively simple request was more expensive ($0.11) than my average request to Opus 4.6 (~$0.07), because it used way more tokens than what I would consider necessary for the prompt.
This is an interesting trend with recent models. The smarter ones get away with a lot less thinking tokens, partially to fully negating the speed/price advantage of the smaller models.
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