I am very confused. $9,000 in API costs, but also Claude Max subscription? Shouldn’t it be $100-200/mo?

I had thought its either/or, either you pay per token, or a fixed subscription.

That kind of applies to most beliefs. People aren’t rational, we are motivated reasoning machines. The key is to get to understand emotions causing people to believe wild stuff. People are far less combative when you are curious and empathetic about personal experiences that led them to their opinions, not fact-checking them. This way you can have a normal conversation with basically anyone on the political spectrum.

This is somehow even more damning than lack of sex ed. It’s basically reversal of the last 100 years of medical progress towards single-use equipment.