Good post. My sense is that in thinking about its ideology, Effective Altruism is and has been more central than many realise and than even Anthropic is willing to publicly acknowledge. EA is both a set of beliefs and values, but it's also an entire epistemic network involving specific thinkers, core texts, ways of speaking, etc, which are influential not just in shaping how Anthropic the company behaves but also how Claude itself behaves.
Totally agree and I would like to dig into this more. Didn't have time to get into Claude itself but it's such a clear expression of a specfic set of beliefs in particular around harm reduction. The way it's always telling me to go to sleep unnecessarily for instance
Good post. My sense is that in thinking about its ideology, Effective Altruism is and has been more central than many realise and than even Anthropic is willing to publicly acknowledge. EA is both a set of beliefs and values, but it's also an entire epistemic network involving specific thinkers, core texts, ways of speaking, etc, which are influential not just in shaping how Anthropic the company behaves but also how Claude itself behaves.
Totally agree and I would like to dig into this more. Didn't have time to get into Claude itself but it's such a clear expression of a specfic set of beliefs in particular around harm reduction. The way it's always telling me to go to sleep unnecessarily for instance