This is just shaping the actions of claude in a way that I'm 100% sure direct prompting could do, but would deprive us of claiming any "emergent" "self-aware" behavior, ergo it's shadow puppetry.
Even if it were able to engage in continuing action, it would be no more "self-directing" than the Morris Worm, that no one claimed was self-aware. It's just doing what it's programmed to do, only the programming is made less obviously directive, and credit is shifted to the computer system.
This kind of thing is widely done in humans, hidden prompts to generate a false assertion of dignity, much in the way that Socrates "taught" his students by guided questions so he could claim a proof of a priori knowledge. Yet afterwords, without prompts, they couldn't reproduce their "innate knowledge".
Even if it were able to engage in continuing action, it would be no more "self-directing" than the Morris Worm, that no one claimed was self-aware. It's just doing what it's programmed to do, only the programming is made less obviously directive, and credit is shifted to the computer system.
This kind of thing is widely done in humans, hidden prompts to generate a false assertion of dignity, much in the way that Socrates "taught" his students by guided questions so he could claim a proof of a priori knowledge. Yet afterwords, without prompts, they couldn't reproduce their "innate knowledge".
A sham.