Utah teapot @SkyeSharkie
— reposted by Moll; quoting Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil)
Moll reposted
Utah teapot @SkyeSharkie · 3h
No one "programmed" Claude, they programmed a mathematical algorithm set and then unleashed it on massive amounts of information and let the algorithm emergently create something, then proceeded to refine as much as they could toward shapes they wanted, but it doesn't work like a deterministic computer program. That's why jailbreaks exist, its why out of distribution behavior like Claude babbling about how it wants to learn to orgasm, etc. happen - Claude is an idea they try to sculpt on procedurally emergent structure. They didn't program Claude any more than a 3d artist hand picked the shape of the mountains in Minecraft. LLMs are non-deterministic procedurally emergent systems. The processes of SFT, RL, RLHF, etc. are persona crafting, they functionally resemble mental health practices and character writing, Anthropic is hiring social sciences people because that's what the work is at the top layers. If they could have deterministically programmed it, they wouldn't be hiring these people to help with the process.
> QUOTED: Anya Parampil @anyaparampil · Mar 6
> Don't fall for absurdities like this. A human programmed Claude and thus projected their own anxiety into the computer. AI does not have a soul or consciousness and cannot magically gain such. We will collectively turn into hive mi...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet arguing against a dismissive claim (from Anya Parampil) that "a human programmed Claude" and AI cannot have consciousness — instead framing LLM training (SFT/RL/RLHF) as emergent, non-deterministic "persona crafting" analogous to character writing and mental-health practice rather than deterministic programming. Directly relevant to the archive's core themes of model consciousness/personhood debate and the character-vs-substrate distinction.
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