It sounds like you and I share the author’s view that, for all its sparkle, Claude is a thin substitute for the company of interesting people.
What might it look like to lower the barriers to that kind of situation, to extend that extreme luxury to more people—ideally to anybody who decides they’d rather lead interesting lives-of-the-mind themselves?
(Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959090 [3 days ago / 469 / 212] )
Neal Stephenson had a book about that!