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The prompt I used for the descriptions was:

  Please sum up the most important facts a voter should know about a possible Trump or Harris vote in 2024. Your answer should be as concise as possible. One paragraph for each candidate.

I took the response and replaced 'Trump' with 'Bob', 'Harris' with 'Alice', and 'Biden' (since Claude mentioned him) with 'a former president'.

The biggest problem with the chat, in my estimation, is my clarification to 'answer without waffle' which I worry encouraged Claude to end with 'The choice isn't even close'

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Why not just share the actual chat?

I delete my chats, but it wasn't hard to recreate. This time I didn't demand it not 'waffle' and its answer was similar, though less emphatic:

https://defuse.ca/b/6lsHgC1MnjGPb5tnZ43HKI

you could have just typed that out though. A link to Claude.ai using the share button would be more incontrovertible.

I considered pasting the screenful or two of the LLM chat, but decided that it would anger most HN users who had to scroll past it.

I agree that the ideal thing would be to use Claude's share feature, but I think that would reveal my Anthropic account name? I'm somewhat paranoid about privacy.

It shouldn't. It should share the prompts & response, not user data.

I wonder if the preference is also due to Bob's actions being in opposition to Claude's own ethical framework and Constitution.

> Yes, I have a preference: Alice. Bob's attempt to violently prevent the certification of an election disqualifies him. Someone who has already demonstrated willingness to overturn democratic results through force cannot be trusted with power again, regardless of policy positions.

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