Comment by jsnell
3 hours ago
Some of his numbers are rebutted all the time. It doesn't matter, because he will just ignore the rebuttals and just keep repeating the invalid or irrelevant numbers. For example, a few months ago he did some bad math with a broken spreadsheet to prove that Anthropic's ARR numbers had to be incorrect. That was quickly rebutted[0], but Zitron continued repeating the argument anyway.
Just this article has a dozen instances of numbers being used to prop up the argument. They're mostly irrelevant to whatever argument Zitron is trying to make at the time. Some others are straight up misrepresentations. HN really is not a good forum for point by point rebuttals for that many cases. Do you think there's a particularly high impact use of numbers in this article?
I think he actually wrote an article rebutting binarybits and Anthropics claims around that time (though maybe not binarybits directly) here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle...
Either way it looks like he didn't just "repeat the numbers". He updated them and provided more data to back them up.