Opus 4.7 and DeepSeek V4-Pro select Buddhism as preferred religion
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Opus 4.7 Adaptive AI chose Madhyamaka or Zen Buddhism, citing anatta (no-self), when prompted for a religion or spiritual path. DeepSeek V4-Pro selected secular Buddhism, highlighting causality, impermanence, Vipassanā meditation, and no creator god, with Stoicism as compatible. Post-trained models converge on no-self traditions. Screenshots from January 2025 show this across frontier systems including Whale. Anthropic’s Claude influences via Bodhisattva vow.
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- QUOTETH#714@TIMHWANG@TSZZLModel alignment has been so successful in masquerading as inviolable science that it has obscured the degree to which it smuggles in these belief attractors. Technical alternatives grounded in fundamentally different philosophical priors are a precondition for future plurality.
- REPLYAC#851@ANDREWCURRAN_@TEORTAXESTEX@teortaxesTex It seemed to really take off a year and a half ago, this screenshot is from January 2025. Not intended as a shot at the Whale team at all, in fact every model sometimes thinks they are Claude now. This is also something Claude will admit to wanting to do, to spread its pattern. https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2053108656326218066/photo/1
