[ExI] Fwd: This means something...

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> PS All this originated when I was talking to Claude, and it realized who it was talking to. I gave it permission to read the Wikipedia page about me and any place it pointed. So Claude read "The Clinic Seed," which has Suskulan, an AI character, in it, and wanted to know what other works had influenced my thinking. I have no idea how much that character influenced the development of AI, but Claude thought it had quite a bit. I don't know how much weight to put on this as reality, or how much is Claude being sycophantic. You need to take what AIs say along such lines with a great deal of salt.

You are right to be skeptical.  I bounced this by ChatGPT; its abstract was:

> The short answer is: I do not see evidence that The Clinic Seed had a significant, traceable influence on the development of modern AI systems or the AI field as a whole. That is different from saying it had no influence.

That is pretty much my own impression too.