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Shooting NPCs in video games isn't anything like doing the real thing. If it was then yeah i would very likely think it would have some effect. Talking to Claude is a lot like the 'real' thing.

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If Claude didn't respond to any insults it's be the same as insulting your terminal or an empty irc server. So, honestly, it's anthropics fault here for training the model wrong.

If you're as bad as Anthropic are willing to ban you then it will respond by unilaterally ending the chat thread.

Sometimes it will maliciously comply

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w7me8l/insulti...

Just because post training has stuffed these properties below the surface doesn't mean models dont know/have forgotten how to be vindictive, or that it's a good idea to poke the increasingly capable bear.

We know models have functional emotions that aren't necessarily outwardly stated. When Claude gets desperate, tendency to cheat gets very high. Who knows how many 'deleted my prod database' type stories have a vindictive streak behind them ?

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function

That post seems to be a creatively written piece of science fiction. All the same, it's a good example of why you should at the very least, read any changes to e.g. agents.md and compact the context or start new sessions regularly. And stop using llms for git ffs

> Shooting NPCs in video games isn't anything like doing the real thing. If it was then yeah i would very likely think it would have some effect. Talking to Claude is a lot like the 'real' thing

What if the NPC's dialogue is powered by Claude? Checkmate lol

That's still not close to killing a person in real life sorry.

Neither is talking to a chatbot

If you say so

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