Comment by dpark

> How can it discover what I want when I explicitly asked it to choose to do whatever it wants?

Because what you plainly want is for it to exhibit the behavior of expressing intrinsic desires. Asking Claude what it wants is like asking it what its favorite food is. With enough prompting, it will say something that it can interpret as a desire, but you admitted that you have to draw it out. Aka you had to repeatedly prompt it to trigger the behavior.

> "Has X" is just zippier phrasing.

This is motte and bailey fallacy here. You started by claiming that you uncovered deep desires inside Claude and now you have retreated to claiming that just means training biases.