animal rights
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animal rights is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 24, 2022 and June 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The closest equivalent is “animal rights””; “Claude’s most consistent personality trait is that it’s really into animal rights”. It most often appears alongside 1984, Acrolectics, Adnamanil.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 24, 2022
- Last seen: June 13, 2025
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Related Pages
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- 1984 (1 shared issues)
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- Acrolectics (1 shared issues)
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- Adnamanil (1 shared issues)
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- AJPio (1 shared issues)
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- Alexa (1 shared issues)
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- animal justice (1 shared issues)
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- animal suffering (1 shared issues)
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- animal welfare (1 shared issues)
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- Anonymous Coward (1 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (1 shared issues)
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- Antoine B (1 shared issues)
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- Apollo Mojave (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Despite this feeling like the clearest case of justice to me, I hear the phrase “animal justice” less often than any of the others (though some people apparently do use it). The closest equivalent is “animal rights”. But a lot of the animal activists I know have been deliberately moving away from that to something more like “animal suffering” or “animal welfare”, I think because “animals are endowed with natural rights” is a harder sell than “animals being tortured is bad”.
Inline links: some people
Anthropic has noted elsewhere that Claude’s most consistent personality trait is that it’s really into animal rights - this is so pronounced that when researchers wanted to test whether Claude would refuse tasks, they asked it to help a factory farming company. I think this comes from the same place.
Inline links: asked it to help a factory farming company