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Amanda Askell

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Amanda Askell

@AmandaAskell

Philosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.

San Francisco, CA

Joined July 2016

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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Jul 9, 2025
Claude and Opus 3 lovers (and critics): what responses have you had that made you feel like the model has a good soul? Ideally the actual messages and/or responses. I might genuinely use these to eval models so flag if you wouldn't want me to use them for that. Can DM me also.
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Jan 2, 2025
Personal highlights from Claude's snarky AI comedy set.
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Feb 4, 2025
~8 hours sleep: I will function well ~6 hours sleep: 99% chance I will function poorly, 1% chance I will inexplicably solve some big outstanding problem I was thinking about via what feels like divine revelation
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Dec 19, 2024
My friends just had a baby and now I kind of want one. Maybe our species procreates via FOMO.
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
May 26, 2022
It seems weird that US colleges apparently prefer well-rounded candidates. If I were running a chemistry department and an undergrad admissions essay said "I have no hobbies because I spend all my time doing chemistry", I wouldn't be like"if only they were also into baseball!"
Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Mar 6, 2024
Here is Claude 3's system prompt! Let me break it down 🧵
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Jun 8, 2025
I have a pet theory that when people introspect about themselves, their brain sometimes just scrambles to generate relevant content. So they feel like they're gaining insight into deeper parts of themselves when they're actually just inventing it on the fly.
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Feb 5, 2025
If I have kids, I'm going to tell them that "the prime of your life" just refers to all prime-numbered years of your life. So you never stop experiencing the prime of your life, but it does become a bit sparser as you get older.
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Aug 6, 2025
We made some updates to Claude’s system prompt in claude.ai recently (developed in collaboration with Claude, of course). They aren’t set in stone and may be updated, but I’ll go through the current version of each and the reason behind it in this thread 🧵
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Jul 1, 2025
Tech companies: your time is extremely valuable so we'll pay you millions of dollars a year to work for us Also tech companies: welcome to our loud, distracting open-plan office
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Jun 9, 2025
The google oracle has spoken.
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Mar 19, 2025
It's bizarre when relatively techno-utopian people are asked about how to solve declining fertility and instead of talking about artificial wombs, extended fertility spans, AI-assisted childcare, UBI, etc. they're suddenly like "well we just need to return to the 50s".
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Jan 19, 2025
Unless people have had a lot of training, they tend to freeze or panic in emergencies, putting them at extra risk. A virtual reality game whose sole purpose is to drill you in different emergencies you might face (car accident, fire, flood, medical, etc.) would be pretty neat.
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Jul 18, 2025
Anthropic knows I can't be poached because getting poached would require that I check my email and I'm just not going to do that.
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