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> aesthetics are a type of philosophy.

What philosophy is that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics

It's literally called aesthetics, the philosophical approach is the original meaning of the word - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics

Properly, focusing on aesthetics as an ethic would be practicing the philosophy of aestheticism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism

The feeling on the street is that Anthropic IS the Apple of the AIs.

Come now, surely Anthropic is a premium Linux distribution.

And Apple a premium Unix derivative?

To a researcher, the aesthetic is more like Bell Labs, with many research teams working with some autonomy, which is why the public naming of model releases appears chaotic. Very different to the top-down approach of Apple.