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fun fact, there was a shareware clone of Racter released in 1991, called Claude https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/classics/racter/0.

• Caracas288 17d ago
  There's no way the connection isn't intentional!
  • cma 17d ago
    I could easily see Anthropic picking it independently, Claude Shannon studied entropy of human text and measured the loss a human could achieve in predicting the next character of text given preceding context.
    • Caracas288 16d ago
      Ah yes, now that you point it out that sounds reasonable. They missed a trick with their typeface, which could have made another nomative connection. Maybe Garamond just isn't web-safe enough.