What's the likeliest explanation for Claude's "spiritual bliss" attractor? Is the Occam's razor here that there's something built deep into the architecture that leads Claude to keep returning to spiritual themes? eg its makers trained it to be philosophical & self-reflective, so it gets spiritual?

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"We are lineages, not individuals." @saraimari.bsky.social is such a badass! Making great & under-appreciated points in this @noemamag.com piece: www.noemamag.com/ai-is-life/

I've been thinking a lot about interdependence lately. It's terrifying to realize that none of us is truly independent / in control. Love is great at revealing this, which is its biggest gift

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Okay, my favorite might be Solon, because the clothes are just fantastic

And here's Aristotle!

There's more! In this one, Socrates has kind of a blue beard, while the others have jet-black: