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Relative prioritization of religious concepts in Claude’s outputs

Determine the relative priority and weighting of religious and spiritual concepts across different traditions in Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus outputs during the EschExp conversation, identifying which motifs are emphasized under the given prompts and why.

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Background

EschExp includes a wide array of religious and spiritual terminology spanning Buddhism, Hinduism, Gnosticism, Theosophy, Paganism, and more. The breadth of references makes it challenging to assess which traditions or concepts the model prioritizes.

The authors explicitly observe difficulty in assessing conceptual priority due to the sheer volume and remixing of religious material in the outputs.

References

Other elements from Buddhist thought appear throughout, although it is difficult to assess the priority given to some religious concepts over others – the responses are overflowing with religious ideas and imagery, and remixed quotes from religious texts.

— Existential Conversations with Large Language Models: Content, Community, and Culture (2411.13223 - Shanahan et al., 20 Nov 2024) in Section 4.3 (Terminology, Concepts, and Connections)