[HN Gopher] Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives
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       Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives
        
       Author : malshe
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2026-01-22 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | mips_avatar wrote:
       | Every single AI economic analysis talks about travel planning but
       | none of the AI labs have the primitives (transit routing,
       | geocoding, etc.) in a semantic interface for the models to use.
        
       | bix6 wrote:
       | > These "primitives"--simple, foundational measures of how Claude
       | is used, which we generate by asking Claude specific questions
       | about anonymized Claude.ai and first-party (1P) API transcripts
       | 
       | I just skimmed but is there any manual verification / human
       | statistical analysis done on this or we just taking Claude's word
       | for it?
        
       | adverbly wrote:
       | This is very cool but it's not quite what I expected out of
       | economic primitives.
       | 
       | I expected to see measures of the economic productivity generated
       | as a result of artificial intelligence use.
       | 
       | Instead, what I'm seeing is measures of artificial intelligence
       | use.
       | 
       | I don't really see how this is measuring the most important
       | economic primitives. Nothing related to productivity at all
       | actually. Everything about how and where and who... This is just
       | demographics and usage statistics...
        
       | brap wrote:
       | All of this performative bullshit coming out of Anthropic is
       | slowly but surely making them my least favorite AI company.
       | 
       | We get it guys the future is here any minute now and you're the
       | only ones taking it super seriously. That's great. Now please
       | just build the damn thing
        
       | mlsu wrote:
       | > This also highlights the importance of model design and
       | training. While Claude is able to respond in a highly
       | sophisticated manner, it tends to do so only when users input
       | sophisticated prompts.
       | 
       | If the output of the model depends on the intelligence of the
       | person picking outputs out of its training corpus, is the model
       | intelligent or not?
        
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