I genuinely believe that Dario and Moskovitz are primarily ideological. But a captured industry is exactly what you build when you have the ideology they do. What they have been building is *simply* the shape of their ideology. In this post, I focused on the financial aspect. These are not mutually exclusive. The ideology is just the flip-side of the financial aspect; every system needs an ideology, and their preferred system is a protected guild with them as priests. But you also can bet that many involved are not like them, who just want to protect the gravy train. But it's just X. You don't have to agree with the interpretation. The hard data are objectively real. If you think I got something factually wrong, send me a DM. I did several complete audit passes with Codex at the end, but I didn't systematically mine this like I would other kinds of cases that I would do for work outside of X. There are probably still important holes remaining -- maybe shocking ones. That's why I left a Github. Anyone can check or build on it. I just wanted to get all the data in one place, because we keep arguing about it. I will check again tomorrow. Also, this is what Claude said when I started to look at everything; I actually don't full agree with Claude on this. I don't think just because METR might be tough on Anthropic in November that this proves anything. You can always rugpull after building trust. And to those who say, "you know, a lot of modern systems are like this," that's true. But you don't want to build a new one like this *on purpose*. At least let it get corrupted *later* after trying to avoid it at first. We actually have a great opportunity to get a fresh start with AI.