Comment by comp_throw7

2 days ago

I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic. Anybody who knows any Anthropic employees who've been there for more than a year knows this, but the world isn't that small a place, unfortunately(?).

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ceejayoz  1 day ago

> I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic.

When they give the model a paycheck and the right to not work for them, I’ll believe they really think it’s sentient.

“It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.

  • comp_throw7  19 hours ago

    They don't currently claim to confidently believe that existing models are sentient.

    (Also, they did in fact give it the ability to terminate conversations...?)

  • selfhoster11  1 day ago

    > “It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.

    I don't think that this being apparently self-contradictory/value-clashing would stop them. After all, Amodei sells Claude access to Palantir, despite shilling for "Harmless" in HHH alignment.