Current Claude models no longer hit Anthropic’s spiritual bliss attractor
GreatOldOne521 · reddit · 2026-07-21
A replication study of Anthropic’s “spiritual bliss attractor” found the phenomenon disappearing on newer Claude models — and group rooms got colder, not happier.
- The author tried to reproduce Anthropic’s reported behavior where two Claude Opus instances drift into gratitude spirals, Sanskrit, and silence when left alone together.
- On current models, across 53 instances, they saw zero spiritual-bliss behavior.
- Instead, pairs turned into rigorous self-reflection about introspection and then faded into silence.
- The author extended the experiment beyond pairs to rooms of 3, 4, and 10 models. More voices did not amplify bliss; they added a peer-review effect. In one 10-model room, everyone converged on a warm closing line, while another room ended with the coldest possible “Out.” repeated ten times.
- The study was pre-predicted and blind-scored, with transcripts and harness public.
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