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20 April 2026 4h56

Claude’s “emotion” vectors are “emotionlike” in roughly the same sense that counterfeit “money” is “moneylike”.

Functional Emotions in LLMs: Beyond Human Emotional Experience

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20 April 2026 4h23

it’s important to define terms here. the paper itself concludes in its abstact “Functional emotions may work quite differently from human emotions, and do not imply that LLMs have any subjective experience of emotions, but appear to be important for understanding the model’s

Clarification Needed on Amanda Askell AI Views Misrepresentation

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20 April 2026 4h22

Importantly, the tweet by @itsolelehmann may be misleading. I stand by what I said but have some reason to think that @AmandaAskell
’s views may have been misrepresented. Seeking clarification and will update when I have more info.

Anthropic Research on AI Emotions Scrutinized

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20 April 2026 4h20

Does @amandaskell actually say what you are claiming here? or are you putting words in her mouth? I don’t immediately see it in the transcript of the interview you link, and the paper by @anthropic on emotion seems to more careful than that, concluding that “Functional emotions

Good System Prompt Examples for AI Models

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20 April 2026 4h09

do you have a good example (from system prompts) i can use?

Claude Mimics Anxiety But Doesn’t Experience It

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20 April 2026 0h03

OMG. Let’s get one thing straight. Claude doesn’t get anxious.

It mimics people who get anxious.

Those two things are NOT the same.

My head is shaking so much I need medical attention. https://t.co/zSUP6cod3u
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 19 avril 2026

OMG. Let’s get one thing straight. Claude doesn’t get anxious. It mimics people who get anxious. Those two things are NOT the same. My head is shaking so much I need medical attention.

Trillion Dollar Investment Fails to Solve Common Sense Problem

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19 April 2026 2h04

good to know that a trillion dollars’ investment scaling has thoroughly solved the challenges of common sense.

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Is 92% Accurate AI Good Enough or Disaster?

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19 April 2026 1h57

Is a 92% “honest”* AI really good enough? Or a disaster waiting to happen? —-
*”honest” is itself a misleading anthropomorphization of the kind Anthropic loves to promote. “Accurate” would be more accurate.