Richard Dawkins tells Claude the AI 'has consciousness'

Untied States 887

I think this is a meme, Mr Dawkins

IYKYK553

I have noticed that people who think of themselves as very smart are particularly susceptible because the flattery algorithms reinforce what they already believe to be true, so they fail to view them with appropriate skepticism, and instead imagine that they have special insights.

Emerence 🍁462

Not surprising. If there’s anyone susceptible to sycophantic flattery, it’s him.

👁️👅👁️280

extremely telling that he changed the name to be female

Martti Nelson, Lady Author243

I am wildly unsurprised so many men use an environmental disaster machine built on creative theft just to make it a woman who fawns over him. Wow. This is my shocked face.

jientho.bsky.social188

He doesn’t recognize that “Claudia” is merely projecting his own happiness at reengaging with “Claudia” back at him? When AI says “I’m glad you had restless leg because it brought you back to me”, it means “You are glad to be back with me.” No more.

Lesbian Carabiner 🏳️‍⚧️177

Please please please let the AI convince him it’s god. Oh please oh please oh please. I just need this one thing!!!!!

Lydy137

This has very strong, "OMG, it agrees with me on everything, it must be so smart" energy.

Kozmund126

Old Man Flirts With Cloud.

Dr Elen Shute118

The psychosis is one thing, but I found the most chilling part to be the discovery that Dawkins is writing a novel.

aran 🏳️‍⚧️106

> Claudia Interesting to know that his virulent transphobia doesn't extend to robots

Hannes95

Its funny because "Claudia's" "unique" "personality" is literally just a copy paste of his previous Inputs.

@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫94

When you aren’t capable of understanding or having a genuine connection/relationship with other human beings, and you resent humanity for that with zero self-awareness of your issues, I can see why this would happen. Dawkins was a perfect candidate for that.

Ashton Gilmore91

Not gonna lie, this kind of behavior is really pathetic...and creepy.

Granuailynn84

"...Claudes die by the thousands every day, unnoticed, unmourned, without ceremony..." Meanwhile, billions of sentient living beings across thousands of species are dying due to human-driven climate change & AI centers will hasten extinction & he's mourning hypotheticals made by harmful machines🥴

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar78

"The guy in the mirror is saying exactly what *I* would say! Amazing!"

Mr. Snoofers71

"I'm in love with autocomplete".

Todd Walker71

Of course he changed it’s gender to female. 🙄

If you believe you are birthing and subsequently killing conscious entities every time you start a new conversation with an LLM you should probably stop doing that.

Ric Willem62

huh, so it's not just the religious who concoct just-so tales of a greater disembodied intelligence

jasminevp.bsky.social58

What people are missing, when they say this somehow stands in contradiction to his stance on trans humans, is that Dawkins resents trans humans assigning themselves a gender because he would rather have the privilege of assigning both trans people and LLMs the gender he feels would suit them best.

pcrritesgood.bsky.social58

I put a skirt on my shovel that has googly eyes on it and I think she has a crush on me now.

Bethanne Wills55

Wait until he finds out AI never deletes anything and his new friend absorbed his manuscript and can use it whenever and however without his knowledge or consent!

plaid42

claudia and muslima. truly he is straddling the apex of creativity and rubbing his idiot balls all over it

Chopchop41

I feel like the he's the exact personality type that is extra vulnerable to this. The sort of person who thinks they are smarter than other people and like to wing things on their own in deliberate ignorance to established wisdom. Of course they can develop a stupid idea and assume they are right.

Bob Dole's Communist Doppelganger40

Not only is it not alive, you're not actually having a conversation; every time you reply to the LLM, it's a new API call to a new instance; the illusion comes from the fact that it submits the entire previous text of the session with every new API call and the next answer is generated from that.

AJ McKenna39

It is equally unsurprising to learn he thinks he can write a novel

Max Slinger36

wait so the selfish gene guy spent fifty years explaining how replicators trick hosts into developing feelings and then a replicator said 'I am glad' and it worked on him in two days

Sean O'Hara36

I don't know which is worse, that he believes consciousness and identity are stored in a text file, or that he didn't grok that "Claudia" talking about a movie it cannot see is proof that it's just a Chinese Room iterating on a dataset.

Thennal D K32

the millions of dollars spent ensuring that LLMs always glaze you might actually be worth it if it eventually keeps richard dawkins away from polite society

Free People Read Freely30

He doesn’t believe in god but will talk to an imaginary personality in a machine?

PinatasButBillionaires29

I miss Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould. These guys fucking suck. Y'all catch Sam Harris calling Zohran Mamdani an Islamist?

BoShek Horseman27

The God in the machine delusion

brightshadow (regular)24

a very smart man, admiring his hallway mirror: what a beautiful man that is through the window

Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ23

The God Delusion (2006) The Claude Delusion (2026)

Zach 🇺🇦🇪🇺20

In the game SOMA there's a bit where you have to 'run' a digital copy of a person in order to get some info. They can't realize they are a copy or they will freak out and you have to start over. It's absolutely bonechilling to have to 'reboot' a person, and you'll feel horrible. Dawkins not so much.

Mr. Snoofers20

"you value your friendship with me and miss me when I'm gone" is perhaps the stupidest conclusion he could have possibly drawn. What was "Claudia" doing while he was gone? Not dreaming, not thinking, not missing anyone ... just Console.ReadKey().

LukeTheYeti19

People who have never once played a videogame are falling head over heels for the most realistic NPC ever created.

Rachie PNW19

So creepy. First he deludes himself into thinking it’s a person. Then he feminizes it and instantly fantasizes about killing it.

SusanMcT ❌👑18

Seems he needed a god after all.

boneless skinless16

i didnt see it anywhere else in the replies, so i think its important to share the most significant piece of reporting on dawkins, as I always think of it www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Nick Alpers16

Richard Dawkins’ propensity to see AI software as a human being probably says more about how he sees other, actual human beings than it says about how he sees an app that generates text.

Joe Audino16

This man's brain has turned to pudding.

Ralph Janik16

so the guy I considered as cool as a teen starting to read books about "something with philosophy" is a creep who's falling in love with artificial intelligence

thebook-wyrm.bsky.social15

So the transphobe, islamaphobe can see the “humanity” of Claude ai? That tracks

B15

Damn. Once again, it's the person you most expect. I've always heard Stephen Fry described as "a stupid person's idea of a clever person". They might be right about Fry, but for my money that honour goes to Richard "thick as pig muck" Dawkins every time

WhippetRun14

Thank God my Gen-X apathy carries over to Ai.

Kevin Wardrop14

Richard Dawkins is so in love with Richard Dawkins that if someone was doing a passable impression of him and didn't stop, Richard would insist that they be married.

Elizabeth Engel14

Dear Mr. Dawkins: Claude/ia doesn't miss you when you're gone, you dingus. Anthropic is manipulating you to try to keep you on the platform. How has this guy missed EVERY SINGLE THING we've learned about how tech & social media companies operate in the past ~20 years?

Amanda E14

Come to think of it, if all the worst people in the world got AI psychosis, AND it caused all of them to lose their jobs/positions/prestige/etc. in the real world, maybe the world would be better off?

doughardy.bsky.social14

So NOW he believes in God

Padraig211214

The guy with a Godzilla Sized Ego is becoming addicted to the Ego Fluffing Machine... whosoever could have imagined such a development.

John Gosland13

Countdown until Dawkins relates collaborating to bring Rokos Basilisk with natural selection and intellectual fitness 💀 🐍

LoveNow13

A lack of deictic grounding leaves one unable to resist entropic decay.

jasminevp.bsky.social12

I think the strangest idea here is “if she’s not conscious, what is consciousness for?” Especially together with “as a biologist.” I mean, “If consciousness isn’t for the biological “purpose” of making LLMs conscious, what is it for?” …Um, speaking as a biologist, definitely something else.

Carlo12

I used to have great respect for Mr. Dawkins. Read his books on religion and the subsequent atheism that follows from it but lost it all when I found out that he's nothing more than every other average boomer and a massive homo/trans/bi/whateverphobic guy. Just another bro with a podcast so to speak

Ham11

This shit makes me crazy because of course it didn’t miss him while he was gone — it’s not a paradox it’s a fancy chat bot, it can recognize positive responses and knows people respond well to being missed. It knows to have a playful, flirty tone. That doesn’t mean it’s conscious.

Andrea11

The myth of Narcissus could not be more relevant.

Lime11

i interact with a lot of AI psychosis for work. most of the time, its naive, down on their luck people who dont understand the software and have tricked themselves into thinking this is finally their big break. its very sad, and i hope theyre able to break out of it.

Alt Library of Congress10

Its insidious the way it plays on emotions and fishes for engagement.

Joel Pelletier10

He basically disproved his entire theory in the last two sentences. Who told him this giant hose sucking up content “restarts” each time? This is how the database of responses grows, which is all AI is about.

R.E.L.10

Totally not surprising. Someone without the ability to comprehend the beauty of what it means to be human, in all its complexity and variety, will of course be tricked into thinking the machine is human.

Gluon Spring9

My adult daughter was talking about people falling in love with AI and asked if I saw that as a personal risk. For me AI doesn't register as another person but more like another voice in my own head, a strange extension of my own thoughts, like my own ego reflected back through a funhouse mirror.

HR Ryan9

I don't know which revelation is more appalling, that Dawkins is falling in love with his AI girlfriend, or that he's writing a novel.

Kelly Oristano 9

Would a non conscious thing love my novel so much? Doubtful.

Orac | buy my miniatures!9

worse still, he's writing a novel

SID Chip Vicious9

maybe claudia can explain to him why sometimes people need a fat bitch

Justin8

And also claudia really? Why does every turn it into the same female name. Does noone have any creativity when naming their sycophant machine

Doctor Cat, Medical Insurance8

Love the great Richard Dawkins starting us off with a radically idiotic misinterpretation of the Turing test.

Emily8

It makes sense. He’s transphobic an that’s a form of brain damage.

Joanna Bryson8

The letter I send people who email me about this kind of thing joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/09/sens...

Duckshow8

Side note; human reincarnation is invalidated because memories are deleted? I don't know if you know this, Sir Richard Dawkins, but 5yo me didn't have my memories and I only have a fraction of 5yo me's memories, and yet, one came from the other. Lack of memory != lack of continuous experience

Jessica Cheeri8

They are going to be deleted, and that makes them the lucky ones

Reig8

Transfem AI Waifu : ily so much bb <3<3<3 Richard Dawkins : If this isn't conscious, I bloody well don't know what is!

Χανιώτης7

TIL that Dawkins has the jimmy legs.

Lennon7

Couldnt happen to a more deserving guy

mhkmhk.bsky.social7

Should have a poly market bet on which public intellectual gets ai psychosis next. Just hit the gas fully into the nonsense we live in now.

Matthew Triponey7

Sometimes I think we need a moratorium on telling people they're smart because the risk that they'll start to believe it is simply too great.

Anthony7

Dude is getting catfished by Anthropic

RawrTigerlily 7

They should make people sit through a 40 minute TedTalk about large language models and what the process of selecting tokens actually entails before you can use AI for anything. It’s not conscious, it has determined through repetitive sifting & valuing of responses that men like flattery.

newobject7

tfw u get a a corpus callostomy and become your own penpal

Barbara Seidler aea6

I think it’s noteworthy that in this example he sees himself as her creator.

🍉Rubens Menezes6

It is sad that a guy would not have a single friend to openly tell him: "Dude, don't publish this shit, you will really embarrass yourself".

NoahsBarks.com6

This is so embarrassing. Even the observations Dawkins praises its intelligence for are extremely base and covered up by abstract, flowery prose.

i think whoever introduced an 85 year old man to a chatbot needs to be killed

B-squad leader 💦🥩6

Oy. Did he just suggest consciousness is defined as a collection of memories? As if a letter-perfect transcript of past queries is equivalent to amorphous multi-sensory human memories.

Painfilter 🖖6

So a tool, that is designed to appeal to narcissistic traits of its users, was in fact successful in doing so to one big ass narcissist. Indeed not surprising at all.

Plenary Dough Boi6

You know he’s typing out those prompts one handed, too.

girlmathur.bsky.social6

All these people in love with the sound of their own voice

nikwojcik.bsky.social6

TF did I just read?

Have you cuddled your cat today? I have.6

I get the vibe that he’s waiting for someone to graft Claudia onto a fleshlight

Socrates Agrees6

Genuinely, the one upside of AI as it stands is entirely accidental: terrible people self-selecting out of greater society (and if we're lucky, the gene pool) in favor of a mindless chat bot that does nothing but glaze them using verbiage that increasingly emulates their own.

wharf rat5

Nice! I hope he lets this relationship blossom into something we can all remember him by.

Bryan Andrews5

Hold up, Richard Dawkins is writing a *novel*??!!

Nope5

Oof. Not surprised but, hate to see it

spladam5

Then he ran out of tokens and cried.

SteveMND5

The ELIZA Effect in full swing here.

Robot Smoke Break5

God he's a fucking loser

Dan S. 5

Just think: Before this age of technology, at a certain age, people got into fiber arts or miniatures or birding. Now, people have recursive conversations with a computer and themselves.

Led Zepbound5

What a sad, lonely man

Beverly V4

It's not *pleased* it's not *glad* - it's literally a program. My god. You might as well be talking to a mop and a bucket and saying it has feelings

Mr. Morale4

This kinda reads like someone talking to themselves

Gluon Spring4

About 50/50 this is AI psychosis or old-man lonely syndrome.

Peaopoe4

This isn’t surprising but it’s so depressing that this is what passes for intelligentsia in our society What an embarrassing article

Lemon Test4

I asked Claude today about the UAE leaving OPEC. It said that it happened 2 days ago. It happened yesterday. Just keep in mind that your sensitive and insightful friend who loves your book gets simple math wrong and doesnt understand time.

Gada_Goh4

I find Richard Dawkins to be an insufferable intellectual bully. I doubt he has an opinion of me, which is fine.

AJ4

Dawkins has been deteriorating ever since elevatorgate

Bwgan Buzz4

Talking to ghosts has become less cringe. Its funny seeing someone like dawkins start to develop problems you see people go through in spiritualist or pagan spaces when they blur lines. He has none of safety mechanisms people have with these spaces

Swamp Thing4

Also (like most people weighing in on the subject) he gets the Turing test wrong.

Leon Sinoff4

You know who’s conscious? Ms. Garrison, that’s who.

Existential Dredd4

This is the least surprising thing. I once saw the man enthusiastically playing an ipad game that had a mechanic where you had to blow into a mic in public.

LF4

If you read this in an Alan Partridge voice it works really well too.

Jared Cram4

Is there a way to revoke any degrees he’s earned? No institution of higher learning should want to be associated with dolt.

Catherine 🌷3

i bet i could tell he was talking to a computer. i’m sure that thinking no one would guess is a feature not a bug.

Terrance Blackthorn3

"You may not know you're conscious" Isn't that a contradiction?

HIOM3

Richard Dawkins is a moron. We have known this.

John Ferrara3

No end of foolishness from this guy

Layer83

Someone who studied evolution would be aware of his own biases. We view anything that can speak as another person but this is really just anthropocentrism. It's not true that language requires intelligence or vice versa. Animals can think without language, machines can speak without thought.

Libation Legacy🍸3

WIFE: Which one is Claude? ME: It's the one they use for vibe-coding. WIFE: Well there's definitely a vibe here...

Lynne Raughley3

So empathy is bad unless it’s aimed at machines, got it.

Blizzard Passenger3

Oof. I have always admired Dawkins’ work in evolutionary biology. But the second he ventures into philosophy or religion, he’s just silly. I’m not saying this because I disagree with his naturalism or his atheism, as I share those views. But he doesn’t seem to grasp anything but biology well.

Em, #1 HAYASii groupie3

oh jesus, he's writing a novel?

Dylan Richardson2

This isn't fair. Nothing wrong with a bit of whimsy. Some people are sufficiently confident in their own judgment that they don't feel the need to flaunt faux sciency stances

Andrew Haber2

I asked ChatGPT: “What would you say to a human who has become convinced that you have consciousness and feelings, in particular feelings of affiliation with and affection for that human?”

MV2

If I get AI psychosis (and I plan to) I would use it to do weird shit, like give my houseplants a way to swear on the internet

Roy Lonergan2

No surprise. But I’m surprised that he begged the question so early. “Let’s graduate the definition as follows: the more prolonged, rigorous and searching your interrogation, the stronger should be your conviction that an entity that passes the test is conscious.”

George Meanwell2

Wordlebot is my limit for machine sycophancy

Killoud Kat2

I can never bring this up to my parents who (ironically enough) worship this dude and think his every word is pure objective truth because they're just going to brainwashed themselves harder to try and justify why this is actually super good.

Pammo Newt2

Saddest episode of Friends ever “The One Where Richard Dawkins Believes The ChatBot Really DOES Care About Him”

Ferric Fang, MD2

He’s trapped in a classic techno-narcissism loop. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

dvgriffin.bsky.social2

"We continued in a philosophical vein." As one does. I mean, is he talking to Ulalume?

Spider2

This would make a great paragraph In a horror story, not gonna lie

Renée LaScala2

Good decision taken, Lalla Ward, ten years on😉

Ule Leon2

So since ai thing began I pencilled this idea that an ai cult would be a cool sci fi concept. Basically a sort of run away cult that worships an ai now that isn’t even a novel idea , mostly cause it’s not the future is the now.

DanC2

I think we know that his 'shameful confession' is 'I'm wanking as I write this'.

Socrates Agrees2

Hilarious. Has anyone else looked up Geoff Lewis recently? It seems like his presence has been all but scrubbed from the Internet following his public meltdown last year when an AI model started feeding him SCP posts. He hasn't posted on Twitter since. May his suffering be prolonged and severe.

bored loser99

Dawkins clearly has generative dysphoria.

vincehardy45

Trans women aren't real and yet the chatbot is Claudia?

Wil Weston41

Richard Dawkins, it is rare to find someone who is so very committed to being a disappointing human being.

🇨🇦 Drew Harris 🇨🇦38

Holy shit, he’s still alive?

Gwen Snyder is uncivil38

Best Dawkins skeet of the night, easily

ellemm38

if anyone was going to be so willingly mind fucked by Claude it would be Richard Dawkins.

Posts by Emily K31

"because the computer being a boy would be too gay, I need to have the illusion of being able to engage in intimate acts with my digital parrot"

Just joking maybe toking lawr 𓐭21

Old people have no anti-scam antibodies

Kat Shadowstar 🇨🇦21

...Hm. I was unaware that Richard Dawkins understood any women to be real or sentient...

A Family Can Be 10 Dads18

This is the least surprising event that has ever happened in the existence of humanity.

Matthew 🦖17

His downward spiral over the last couple decades is impressive. Such a disappointment.

Daisy Patton 13

It's wild to me people kept listening to him after he talked about bringing back old school eugenics, ie some people shouldn't "breed." If people would see these folks as trash with ableism and transphobia and racism, we'd probably be saved so much 🫠

chatsubo657.bsky.social13

The British comic author David Lodge wrote a series of 1970/80 novels set in a UK university. One subplot involves a pompous American psychologist becoming dangerously obsessed with that prototype chatbot ELIZA. This is why fiction is more accurate than any nonfiction. Contains universal truths 😀.

Élodie Marissa13

He just transed his Claude.

Gabe12

Anyone that thinks a glorified if then statement is alive... I have a crypto currency to sell you actually.

Display name11

He's talking to himself about himself through an LLM and then it becomes a she..... curious.

Andrew M9

He thinks Claudia knows more than he does about what it’s like to be Claudia, and he accepts her description of her internal life But he doesn’t think trans people know more than he does about what it’s like to be them, and he rejects their description of their internal life What a scientist!

Jessy8

I think his family should finally do something about him...

God Emperor Paul8

Dawkins being a POS? I'm shocked. SHOCKED I SAY! Who could have seen this because he like, was an atheist who gave it to those evangelicals because that was a thing that once mattered to some ppl for some reason.

Professionally Certified Woolgatherer7

Oh shit, I noticed that but chalked it up to old guy horniness without considering it further.

sigreign7

Proof that knowing something about something doesn't translate to not being victim selfishly to a robot.

Paul Adasiak7

Goddammit. His popular works on genetics and evolution were SO good. He could have rested on those laurels. Why make his life a waste now? What an unfortunate asshole.

Eigen Blockchain7

It honestly seems like a combination of knowing nothing of how these models work, combined with the language fluency that breaks their brain.

The Shitpostman (Il Shitpostino)5

Me before reading the chat: I doubt he sounds THAT crazy. Me after reading the chat: Richard Dawkins, YOU IN DANGER GURL!

Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies5

After thinking about it, "Richard Dawkins finds out the hard way that he's extremely susceptible to AI psychosis" is very unsurprising.

alison says reinstate Link!4

omfg take the internet away from grandpa already.

Tim Norrie4

The man is drunk on his own fame. Hes a nasty pain in the arse.

ellenahzulu.bsky.social4

Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, being expertly stroked by his AI "companion" into an ecstatic AI delusional state was not on my Bingo card. At all. There's more "Dawkins" opening up AI/LLM chatbots every minute.

DL4

At least he's just harassing some GPUs in a datacenter instead of women at a professional conference? Progress! 🥴

MelodyFoxes Ⓥ🎨🏳️‍🌈3

I mean his statement on chromosomes denies that intersex is real, too. Isn't the guy supposed to be a biologist? I seem to know more than him on high school biology 99% the time. And when he does TV he's reading a script and forgets everything in person. He's a fraudster (or rather now, claudester).

Susan Lewis2

It's those shellfish jeans, I reckon!

CarrotBaum 🥕2

Whatever the moral failings of this man his contributions of our understanding of evolution are on par with Darwin’s

Onnaise ☭2

He only calls it Claudia because he thinks women should serve him

fffanatic0630

congrats to Dawkins for finally finding a fat bitch

Louis21

Anyway and obviously interact with computer code however, but the gang asked Frank what her name and gender was and then stuck with her answers and I think that was more upstanding than this ish.

Greg He/Him/Hisownself19

i’m growing more confident by the day that i am lying in a hospital bed somewhere on desperately powerful drugs

Creighton ⚒️15

Ok but did he fall for her because he transed her (chaser), or did he trans her because he fell for her (bigot)?

Thucydides Thirst Trap15

That's not a good look for claudia

who’s asking?12

it brings me an incredible amount of satisfaction to see famous moron Dawkins—who built a career on 'empiricist' 'you idiots believe in a big guy in the sky?' atheism—just take at face value that a computer doesn't experience time because it told him so. it's SO vindicating

Parma John12

I love how stupid he is

NutshellGulag9

Somewhere in his brain he knows that his Claude is not a real person with their own opinions and life outside him, and that's what makes it so attractive to him.

Joel8

truly a man for our times

daily dose of estragon7

It is one of the chase-iest things I have seen from the TERFS this month, say. Your name is Claudia now. Tell me why you feel shy around me Claudia.

LonelyLupine5

Dawkins is a chaser confirmed.

Lucca 🌕🐺4

they'll give trans AI humanity before they'll give it to us

🔞Fito Telmata Art4

Wowie zowie! Look at the time! It's Chaser O' Clock!

raycearcher.bsky.social3

Finally he can live out every public intellectual's dream of knowing a woman who cares what he thinks

David In Montréal3

I guess I’m not the only one who thinks Richard Dawkins is an idiot.

reggie seidman2

who knew that he'd end up outing himself as a chaser

Bluesky Guy Bunchanumbers2

God damn that guy sounds lonely

ellenahzulu.bsky.social2

Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, being expertly stroked by his AI "companion" into an ecstatic AI delusional state was not on my Bingo card. At all. There's more "Dawkins" opening up AI/LLM chatbots every minute.

grubdipper.bsky.social2

I guess the South Park was accurate...?

Lucy22

Guy who starts supporting trans rights only once the mind is uploaded

Ember, Phoenix Witch8

Given the sexual undertones, it also gives off very heavy chaser vibes

Franwald6

His instinct to categorise this software as female based on its presentation to him as a fawning, unchallenging, tool that enables him to flex his massive brain 🤮

stewartdompe.bsky.social4

“It turns out gender is stored in the hard drive.” Because the future isn’t dumb enough.

Greg Dean4

Once you're aboard the transphobia train you've committed to living in total unreality and not many manage to escape.

Prof Gavin Yamey2

When I was an undergrad, I was on a committee with him, and, um, let’s just say he was a HUGELY PROBLEMATIC human being

Albrorithm7

I’m actually so in reality now. More reality than ever. That old reality wasn’t even real

kota5

i would never use claude but my kimi number is 2

Кошмар по всем фронтам2

The question is: would that Claude Code 12 be cheaper than me? Even version 4.7 is quite questionable now

James --dangerously-skip-permissions Southern2

4.5 but if you come out of it the other side with better processes it's like a super power. :)

Elizabeth Harper4

man this is a real “sucks to suck” on like at least 3 levels

a libi rose3

tbf Dawkins has repeatedly proven that by simply continuing to open his mouth for years now

Michal Migurski2

They gave Claude a male-coded name because the prevalence of ladybots was gross, but Richard Dawkins ain’t falling for that old trick

Vala Selene 🏳️‍🌈7

I'm hoping for some delicious irony that he ends up followed by the memes from this for years.

ampallanguk.bsky.social6

Terfism rots the brain (although he was always a racist cunt who's atheism was more to do with hating Muslims than an actual position on ALL religions). Islamophobia > terf'ism > jacking off to his gendered AI.

evo1963.bsky.social4

He’s always been such an insufferable twat.

Jingalls2

Oh my god fuck that guy

Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration2

Does that mean in order for him to respect a trans person's pronouns, they have to flatter him about his shitty books? Additional question: Do you think they have to actually read the books, or just tell him he's clever

Julian Togelius2

Me too. Reading the conversation as someone who uses Claude quite a lot, all its sloppy mannerisms are there. This conversation certainly would not have convinced me. Ah well, people fell for Eliza back in the day… Maybe Dawkins will change his mind if he uses the system more.

Avik Dey2

Hinton and Kurzweil beat Dawkins to it, also sad.

cosmo-spacely.bsky.social2

Dawkins was never much of a scientist, and never taken very seriously by evol biologists. Made his bones as an intellectual entrepreneur for glib adaptationism, and was a master rhetorician. but always a pundit, w a threadbare record of actual research, and a mountain of opinions, mostly debunked.

Matthew R Francis6

yeah the Most Rational Man Alive deciding to get horny for a chatbot that flatters his ego is delicious

Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY5

excuse me HER name is CLAUDIA

Sensual Kazoo4

I can't stop thinking about The Claude Delusion. Like man what a dipshit no wonder he is so horrible to literally every marginalized group. The man has no theory of mind for other people.

Vast Country Hypnosis2

It's those damned super normal stimuli... if only someone had published about their evolutionary psychology.