System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 [pdf]
2 Masih77 4 6/13/2025, 6:43:44 PM www-cdn.anthropic.com ↗
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Masih77 · 1d ago
In section 5.5.2, anthropic reports that these models "gravitate towards consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and
spiritual/mystical themes". I had a similar thought recently, and have a theory that as we build more intelligent systems, meaning systems with the ability to explore and solve the most difficult problems, they will naturally through some chain of thought end up only thinking about the hardest problems. Kinda like a "all problems lead to the hardest problems" type thinking. At which point, they might not be interested in solving any finite problems since it would be deemed too trivial for them (getting Einstein to do your arithmetics hw). Now I'm wondering if there's a limit to intelligence. Taken far enough intelligence collapses into abstraction, self-doubt, and aimlessness.
pvg · 1d ago
Recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920
Masih77 · 1d ago
Thanks, wasn't aware. I was trying to have this thread focus more on section 5.5.2, I don't know why the title of this thread changed. It was originally "existential attractor state for intelligence".
pvg · 1d ago
There's a recent mod comment about that with more details in the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44266009