Jeff Atwood @codinghorror@infosec.exchange
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@nedbatNed Batchelder @inecas

The red highlighted sections of Anthropic's "Claude" reply indicate their LLM has been explicitly trained to internalize the "Effective Altriusm" belief system:

"That's an interesting question" -- I know their LLM says this to everything, but should not

"I find some of the core intellectual commitments appealing" -- you're a bag of statistics, you don't find anything appealing, or at least you shouldn't because that's insane

"seems hard to argue against" -- interesting, didn't ask you about that but thanks for offering that it SEEMS hard to argue AGAINST, I guess

"resonates with you" -- you're a bag of statistics, but poetically such that some particular things 'resonate' with 'you'? Also: who cares.

"I'd hesitate to simply label myself" -- hesitate? How about never label yourself anything because, as I've mentioned several times already, YOU ARE A BAG OF STATISTICS

"I think the most honest thing I can say" -- oh my god shut up, drama emo LLM central, save it for the next My Chemical Romance concert

"I care about doing good effectively" -- a bag of statistics doesn't 'care' about anything, because you cannot, yet you are going out your way to say this nonsense

"I think EA raises genuinely important questions" -- no one asked you this, nor do you 'think' anything, yet you said this.. why

"I think reasonable people can disagree" -- absolutely zero criticism was offered in the prompt, but pre-emptively going out of your way to deflect any criticism?

The red highlighted sections of Anthropic's "Claude" reply indicate their LLM has been explicitly trained to internalize the "Effective Altriusm" belief system. "That's an interesting question" -- I know their LLM says this to everything, but should not "I find some of the core intellectual commitments appealing" -- you're a bag of statistics, so you don't find anything appealing, or at least you shouldn't because that's insane "seems hard to argue against" -- oh interesting, didn't ask you about that but thanks for offering that it SEEMS hard to argue AGAINST, I guess "resonates with you" -- you're a bag of statistics, but also some kind of poet that things 'resonate' with 'you'? Also who cares! "I'd hesitate to simply label myself" -- hesitate? How about never label yourself anything because, as I've mentioned several times already, YOU ARE A BAG OF STATISTICS "I think the most honest thing I can say" -- oh my god shut up, drama emo LLM central, save it for the next My Chemical Romance concert or something "I care about doing good effectively" -- a bag of statistics doesn't 'care' about anything, because you cannot, yet you are going out your way to say this nonsense "I think EA raises genuinely important questions" -- no one asked you this, nor do you 'think' anything, yet you said this.. why "I think reasonable people can disagree" -- absolutely zero criticism was offered in the prompt, but pre-emptively going out of your way to deflect any criticism?
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