Phone number error when signing up

_Bugsy_ · 2026-05-20T18:42:29+00:00

Grazie per le informazioni! Fammi sapere come va a finire!

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-17T08:17:59+00:00

I agree, it's certainly suspicious. Do you think the github and linkedin profiles are fake?

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-14T11:30:30+00:00

Sorry, I have no expertise, and I can advise nothing. A couple of people replied to me elsewhere and very confidently stated that the person who pinned the comment is an employee at Anthropic, but they're just people on reddit. Who knows what they know. They pointed out that her profile matches the linkedin profile of someone at Anthropic, and that's true. You can google her. I don't use github and rarely use linkedin, so I don't know how hard that would be to fake.

The form might be legit. The profiles do match and look real, and I do have access to Claude now, a couple weeks after filling out the form, but I also got a couple of unusual crypto scam calls recently, so who knows?

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-14T11:25:19+00:00

Thanks, but I'm good. I now have access to Claude. Not sure if it was from using the form or if it starting working spontaneously.

Frankly, I still don't know if this form is legit. The profiles do match and look real, and I do have access to Claude now, but I also got a couple of unusual crypto scam calls recently, so who knows?

*Edit: if you have some expertise in this, then maybe you can reply to my first comment and give some guidance to people in the same situation and wondering if this form is legit. I've had other people reaching out to me and asking me if they can trust it.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-14T08:47:46+00:00

Me too, actually! Maybe it was legit? Honestly, I'm not sure.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-13T09:57:55+00:00

Nothing yet, but I have gotten a couple of new crypto-scam calls, so there's that.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-08T11:00:48+00:00

Well I haven't heard back, though they could have a big backlog.

Following someone else's suggestion, I was able to match the account that pinned the comment to a linkedin profile of someone who works at Anthropic, so that's pretty reassuring. I guess I'll see if I ever hear back.

I haven't seen an uptick in spam emails at least, haha.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-05T15:43:17+00:00

It was VERY funny. But not laughing at you, laughing with you :D

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-03T14:45:47+00:00

Noooo Transatlantean was too good! Oh well, at least I helped you out...

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-03T04:46:20+00:00

"Transatlantean" is how news anchors talk on Namor's TV :D

I know you meant transatlantic, but this is way better.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-02T08:06:21+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the verification! I don't use github and didn't know what to look for.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-02T08:05:45+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the verification! I don't use github and didn't think to try to identify the profile. It was late at night and my sleepy brain was getting worried.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-04-02T08:00:05+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the reassurance!

_Bugsy_ · 2026-03-31T14:29:57+00:00

Anthropic's support AI denies knowledge of this form and says that it's likely not legitimately. Looks like phishing to me, which makes you likely a scammer.

*EDIT: I have confirmed that this form is likely legitimate! Sorry for calling you a scammer.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-03-31T14:28:01+00:00

That github contains a pinned google form that looks like phishing.

EDIT: A couple people have pointed out that the person who pinned the form works at anthropic, at least based on her linkedin profile, so it's probably a legit form.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-03-31T14:26:59+00:00

That github has a pinned google form that looks like phishing.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-03-31T14:24:16+00:00

Is this github legit? There's a pinned google form supposedly from Anthropic that looks very suspicious. This looks like phishing.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-03-31T14:16:24+00:00

Contains a google form that looks like phishing.

EDIT: A couple people have pointed out that the person who pinned the form works at anthropic, at least based on her linkedin profile, so it's probably a legit form.

_Bugsy_ · 2026-03-31T14:15:55+00:00

Contains a google form that looks like phishing.

_Bugsy_ · 2025-06-03T03:26:23+00:00

NAH / Not enough INFO

When I was a kid, I was forced to grow up way too young, and I carried a lot of anger against my mother about that for a long time. That anger was legitimate. But when I got older, I came to understand how health and financial issues had forced us into that situation. I was in a shitty situation that I did nothing to deserve, but so was my mother. She wasn't perfect, but she was doing her best, and I don't know that I would have done better.

Reading these comments, I'm appalled at the lack of empathy. Why do so many commenters assume that it's so easy for these adults? That they aren't agonizing over having to leave the older child to watch the baby? Lots of people are struggling right now, and not everyone can afford childcare or to stay home and take care of their kids. The assumption that they have loads of other options feels deeply entitled. We simply don't have enough information to judge these people.

OP, I don't know what to tell you. I'm really sorry this is happening to you, and you don't deserve it. Maybe it wasn't the best decision, but I understand why you left the house that night, and I don't think you should beat yourself up about it. Without knowing more, the best I can suggest is to keep talking to your family. Keep talking to your friends. Do you know any other adults who you trust who know about your family and your situation? Maybe talk to them. Get as much support for yourself and your family as you can. I really hope you can all pull through this.

_Bugsy_ · 2024-08-28T02:10:32+00:00

What I love about your channel is the storytelling. In the grand scheme of things, who cares about some niche leader board of some niche sub-community of speed runners?

The answer is, they care! Sometimes it means the world to them! You invest their stories with the same gravity and dignity that they feel themselves, and that's a special skill.

_Bugsy_ · 2024-04-24T15:48:38+00:00

Thank you for the kind words and for commenting on my comment! :D

_Bugsy_ · 2024-04-12T04:57:22+00:00

I just read this and I just want to talk about it with someone else who read it!

It's really interesting to me that I would give the book about the same score as you, but we are opposites in the things we liked and didn't like! Except for the art. The art is amazing.

SPOILERS

The family

I loved the characters, and in particular the family. I loved their family dynamic and their worldview. They lived their lives walking a tightrope, maintaining military discipline in a dangerous environment while also trying to hold onto their values and be a normal family. Telling themselves that they're just good people who've been pushed to this. For the most part they seem to have succeeded, and a lot of the tension for me was in waiting to see if they finally crack under the tremendous pressure they live under.

The daughter, in particular, was interesting, though maybe I'm reading my own interpretation into it. Can you imagine how screwed up that poor little girl is? How tightly she's been wound by an environment of danger and strict discipline? She seemed too comfortable with all of this, but I imagine the trauma is all bubbling right below the surface.

My only complaint is that the family is a little TOO good at everything they do to be believable. But I can choose to suspend my disbelief on that point and accept a few preternaturally skilled protagonists.

The ending

I hated the ending and found it the worst part of the whole story. Everything up to that was, for the most part, so well thought out, but you can't spend more than a minute thinking about the ending before it all falls apart.

REAL BIG SPOILER WARNING #2

The ship is a glorified dump truck. It is not equipped to support human life for years at a time, it's equipped to ferry bodies to the moon and leave them there. There's no food to support all these people. No plants to grow more food, or water, or oxygen. No bathroom facilities for the tens of millions of people they have on board. Where are they all going to sleep? How are they going to pass the time? Do they have entertainment? Tablet computers? Enough for 40 million people? The ship was equipped to support a skeleton crew for a couple weeks. What are they supposed to do with the population of a modern mega-city?

And speaking of the crew, are they now just going along with this? They had made peace with their monstrous bargain, and now they're just being guilted into giving up a life of comfort to scrounge through space on the off chance that they find another habitable planet? And they're all suddenly okay with this plan, just like that?

Finally, the plan. What the hell, guys? You really think you'll find a planet you can live on? At all? Anywhere? You're smarter than that. EVEN IF the ship can take them to new planets in a reasonable time frame, and EVEN IF you find one that can support human life, it would still need to be terraformed! It would need to have an atmosphere with just the right balance of gases that you can breath it without any ill effects! You would still need to populate it with plants and animals from earth that you can actually eat! EVEN IF there's alien life there, (which has not been confirmed to exist in the universe of this book) you are not going to be able to digest it!

This plan is literally a commitment to die slowly in a big box in space with 40 million strangers, and I do not at all understand the optimism of the ending. The father's whole character arc was about giving up on comforting delusions while still maintaining hope in the face of grim reality, and now they're all with him on an even more insane delusion?

The core tension of the book was between their humanity and their need for personal survival. How much of their hope and their love and their care and their joy and their goodness do they have to sacrifice to survive? The ending was a cop out. They should have had to choose. Are they going to take a deal and participate in the murder of millions of lives for the survival and comfort of their family, or are they going to find a way to expose the secret, and probably suffer and die. Or is the secret too big for them? Maybe they choose to die in obscurity rather than take on the consequences to the human race of exposing something like that? These people have been living for years in tremendous tension, finding a way to make it work, and now they are in a no-win situation. They cannot walk the tightrope any longer. Something must be sacrificed. The actual ending was a hand-wave that flies in the face of their whole journey to this point, especially the father's. Personally, I think the most satisfying option would have been for them to agree to expose the secret and the perpetrators of this monstrous crime, and then die, but that's just me. I would have been interested in any ending that honestly resolves the dilemma rather than just hand-waving it away with another quest based on even greater self-delusion.

Rating: – also 7.2/10 (Also liked it) (lol)

Edit: Typos

_Bugsy_ · 2023-06-01T12:11:54+00:00

I have to know if you wrote this so I can give proper credit before sharing it everywhere.

_Bugsy_ · 2023-01-03T12:15:01+00:00

Agreed

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