he pulls a Tim Apple with Dario (Anthropic!) probably because he can’t be bothered to try and type Amodei
I think he also prefers to use first names to keep these people small. If you say Gates, or Buffet you know immediately who is meant. I think he doesn’t want to give them status, so he has something to praise them with when they do what they want. Abusive people tend to use the carrot and the stick through words and attention. He wouldn’t have cared if he wrote Amodei wrong. Don’t forget how he gives all his political opponents ‘new’ names too. He uses it to put out his world view of who is good and who is bad, and who is important and who is not. He is not a high iq individual, but he does very finely understand how to manipulate people.
I think he also prefers to use first names to keep these people small. If you say Gates, or Buffet you know immediately who is meant. I think he doesn’t want to give them status, so he has something to praise them with when they do what they want. Abusive people tend to use the carrot and the stick through words and attention. He wouldn’t have cared if he wrote Amodei wrong. Don’t forget how he gives all his political opponents ‘new’ names too. He uses it to put out his world view of who is good and who is bad, and who is important and who is not. He is not a high iq individual, but he does very finely understand how to manipulate people.