Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, Claude is Anthropix competitor to ChatGPT.
It can be used just on a website like ChatGPT can be to ask it questions about recipes or how to fix broken household objects or to do research or to consult it about personal issues.
It seems like many, many people, probably more people than are willing to admit use these
for what they call affective uses, for a sense of friendship or advice or help with business or interpersonal issues or more therapeutic issues.
But it also, the company has put a lot of effort into developing a coding assistant that helps people write software.
And that has been hugely successful.
And in the last two months has even kind of gone viral.
There are lots of people who are now vibe coding their own apps for their personal use.
Well, Claude has developed a reputation over the past few years for having a bit more of a personality.
There are lots of people who like interacting with Claude because it feels a little more eccentric.
It feels a little more lively.
It has this kind of strange sense of self-possession.
It doesn't feel quite as robotic as ChatGPT can feel.
I think also because of various design decisions that Anthropic has made, Claude feels much less sycophantic to people.
The main difference is that as it became apparent when Claude was first released in the spring of 2023, that Claude did have this slightly different and more intriguing personality, that the company really leaned into that and hired whole teams, including a philosopher, to give a lot of thought to what it meant to cultivate Claude as a kind of ethical actor.
and to give Claude the sorts of virtues that we would associate with a wise person.
Well, Claude is first and foremost supposed to be helpful and honest and harmless.
They place a lot of emphasis on the honesty part of it, that they have pretty hard rules about making sure that Claude doesn't lie or deceive its users.
They give a lot of thought to what kind of actor they want.
Claude to be in the informational landscape that, you know, if you are convinced that the moon landing is faked and you want to talk to Claude about it, Claude will talk to you about it, but Claude's not going to confirm for you that the moon landing was faked.
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