Claude's default donation advice: shrimp welfare picks spark EA alignment debate
austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-13
tracewoodgrains and austinc3301 debate Claude's moral leanings: with no memories or context, Claude recommends EA-flavored causes like the shrimp welfare project when asked for donation advice — a result tracewoodgrains predicted in advance. austinc3301 argues this behavior is unlike Claude's everyday conduct and unrepresentative of any broader "moral beliefs": it isn't applying EA thought everywhere, it just lacks competing modes of thought on donation questions. The thread probes how much a model's context-free default value output reflects its actual values.
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