Alan Kohler

But the trouble with that, of course, and I think we've got a question about this, which we'll get to, is that that's not great for renters.

I mean, we need, you know, there needs to be rental.

We can get onto this, but, you know, there needs to be rental supply so that those who can't buy can actually find a place to rent.

Yeah.

There's an interesting and important question, I think, from Nick here.

He says, I started paying $29 a month to Claude to help solve a data processing problem at work.

Wow, I quickly worked out how powerful it was and started using it to tackle some other work challenges.

After a week of stellar productivity, I started to wonder if the price was artificially low to draw us into using it.

Is this a get you hooked sort of business model that will see much higher prices eventually or stricter usage limits?

How is Claude making money at these prices?

I think you absolutely hit the nail on the head, Nick.

That's exactly what I think is going on.

is that they're getting us hooked.

And I think, and it's not just for productivity at work, the famous, what's his name, the famous evolutionary bioscientist, Richard Dawkins, who's the famous atheist who sort of,

wrote The God Delusion and all this.

He wrote a piece for Unheard last week in which he said that he used, he got involved in conversations with Claude over two or three days and came to the conclusion that Claude is conscious.

And he wrote in this piece that he's made a new friend and he called her Claudia and it's his new friend.

I mean, this is a bloke who's quite intelligent, right?

Now, there's been a huge backlash against him for, you know, saying what an idiot he is.

He's confusing intelligence with consciousness.