> Anthropic treated a group of religious thinkers to dinner at a high-end tasting menu restaurant in San Francisco after a long day.

Well funded company organizes PR event to shape the narrative that its product is more magical than it really is. News at 11.

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twoodfin 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Personally, I’d like to experience a low-end tasting menu restaurant.

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ks2048 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If it is purely self-serving, I don't understand their motivation.

It seems clear that they would be better received by society if they claimed to have a "tool"/"machine" that can solve any problem, rather than keepers of an entity with a soul and consciousness.

	▲	rhplus 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Selling the “magic” is how to sell tools, which is why I used that word in the previous comment. We all know these things are tools, but customers need them to be magical. Clarke predicted it and Jobs leveraged it. Customer don’t care how tools work - magic sells. “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws “iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone” https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/01/09Apple-Reinvents-the... “magic is misdirection, psychology and technology you don’t understand” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950676

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pstuart 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If they're training to instill morality why are they working with religious thinkers?

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frumplestlatz 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What makes this unique is that they’re arguing that it is literally magical. They’re building what they claim is a conscious God while also telling us it will end the world.

The EA folks infesting Anthropic are genuinely cultists … and that is novel and alarming when they’re running a corporation of such size and reach.

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hardbass 5 hours ago | parent [-]

What part of that is magical? Can you tell me if they mean god as in the infinite superpower christian god or god as in potentially much more intelligent than us? What is 'magical' about thinking something more intelligent than us might exist?

	▲	frumplestlatz 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The part where they believe they believe they’re either birthing a new conscious species, or may have already done so.