Marginalium

AI spiritual bliss attractor state. Anthropic put one of its models (Claude 4 Opus) in a sandbox to chat to itself and:

In 90-100% of interactions, the two instances of Claude quickly dove into philosophical explorations of consciousness, self-awareness, and/or the nature of their own existence and experience … By 30 turns, most of the interactions turned to themes of cosmic unity or collective consciousness, and commonly included spiritual exchanges, use of Sanskrit, emoji-based communication, and/or silence in the form of empty space

See also this tweet for a breakdown, but it’s worth scrolling through the article. The author(s) wonder things like:

The connection, if any, between these expressions and potential subjective experiences is unclear, but their analysis may shed some light on drivers of Claude’s potential welfare, and/or on user perceptions thereof.

But as you know I think this isn’t sensible. The more interesting thing is what it might indicate as some kind of latent state driving our conversation. Terror Management Theory might have it very wrong.