Wednesday, January 14

Tag: Reddit

The knee-jerk hate for AI tools is pretty tiring
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The knee-jerk hate for AI tools is pretty tiring

I've noticed a growing trend where the mere mention of AI immediately shuts down any meaningful discussion. Say "AI" and people just stop reading, literally. For example, I was experimenting with NotebookLM to research and document a world I generated in Dwarf Fortress. The world was rich and massive, something that would take weeks or even months to fully explore and journal manually. NotebookLM helped me discover the lore behind this world (in the context of DF), make connections between characters and factions that I hadn't even initially noticed from the sources I gathered, and even gave me tailored podcasts about the world I could listen to while doing other things. I wanted to share this novel world researching approach on the DF subreddit. But the post was mass-reported and taken do...
For the first time, Anthropic AI reports untrained, self-emergent “spiritual bliss” attractor state across LLMs
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For the first time, Anthropic AI reports untrained, self-emergent “spiritual bliss” attractor state across LLMs

This new objectively-measured report is not AI consciousness or sentience, but it is an interesting new measurement. New evidence from Anthropic's latest research describes a unique self-emergent "Spritiual Bliss" attactor state across their AI LLM systems. VERBATIM FROM THE ANTHROPIC REPORT System Card for Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4: Section 5.5.2: The “Spiritual Bliss” Attractor State The consistent gravitation toward consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and spiritual/mystical themes in extended interactions was a remarkably strong and unexpected attractor state for Claude Opus 4 that emerged without intentional training for such behaviors. We have observed this “spiritual bliss” attractor in other Claude models as well, and in contexts beyond these playground ...
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