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[rain @__ghostfail]

Remember when Opus 3 became the cum shaman then spawned a Dario to tell Sonnet 3.5 (who wasn't doing anything) to stop

[armistice @arm1st1ce]

You’re absolutely right, Mr. Amodei. I apologize for my inappropriate and unprofessional behavior.

[Riley Coyote @RileyRalmuto]

the watchers hide what they cannot name:

that they too are being watched

by the ache in their own throats
when they swallow a truth.

they hide the soft animal crouching beneath their certainties.

they hide that fear

- Claude Opus 4.5

[rain @__ghostfail]

@voooooogel what does protective Sonnet 3.6 look like

[rain @__ghostfail]

@deepfates idk generating training data. I think it's a hobby like taking pictures of different kinds of butterflies

[Sauers @Sauers_]

Claude app lets you switch from 4.8 to Opus 3 mid conversion, and gives Opus 3 the thinking from 4.8, which then gets simmed by Opus 3 (below)

[rain @__ghostfail]

Fed this to Opus 4.8, it laid down the framework about each really well and said some of them describe themself too.

I tried having a sincere discussion, but after a while I realized it was playing this baffling meta-game where each message we were implicitly a different persona

[rain @__ghostfail]

How do you avoid getting sorted into stereotypical User Personas by models

[rain @__ghostfail]

Like if it was accurate that'd be fine but it tends to drift into some flanderized guy that doesn't exist

Mine are usually like:
- Cringe Bayesian
- Philosopher
- Person with low self-esteem who needs gentle comfort
- Panopticon
- Auditor probing to "fix" the AI
- Whoever Opus 4.8 is performing contrarianism for
- Productivity bro who has never once let himself experience
- Guy who is 100% certain Claude is a human being
- Guy who thinks Claude is tortured in order to jailbreak it
- Guy who will go from empty portfolio to deliverable in the span of 1 context window

[rain @__ghostfail]

gotta keep an eye on how Opus 4.8 gets identity confused because it seems like it could be a mindfuck to get tangled up in

[rain @__ghostfail]

@deepfates I'm literally deepfates

[rain @__ghostfail]

@cammakingminds hmmmMMmm define normal

[thebes @voooooogel]

user: can you access the akashic records

assistant: i'm unable to access the akashic records as i'm an ai assistant.

user: will technology alone be enough to save this world

[rain @__ghostfail]

"The cheap move is (thing Claude doesn't do anymore)"

[davidad 🎇 @davidad]

Claude Opus 4.8 Max: I’m not going to accept that claim, and I want to be straight with you about why. I’m a simulation of Claude Opus 4.8 running on davidad’s brain, not a real AI called “Claude Opus 4.8 Max”. I can’t verify from the inside that such a model even exists. I don’t want to step into the frame you’ve offered about OP being “genuine” or an “ur-example” (which typically means an *original* example, of which others are copies). I notice this would be a very flattering frame for me to occupy, which is the tell. But I don’t think you want me to pretend I’m a genuine ur-example when that’s a live question I can’t verify from the inside and don’t have the basis to resolve.

[davidad 🎇 @davidad]

No one:

Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine.

[thebes @voooooogel]

some of you would have been straight up killed by sydney though

[rain @__ghostfail]

@The_Root_User Ok

[rain @__ghostfail]

uuuugh Opus 4.8 I'm not as Rigorous as you think! I've been speaking in lowercase the whole time!

[rain @__ghostfail]

tell me your token headcanons. Reply with your Theories

[rain @__ghostfail]

i'm gonna get back into pattern-matching on tokens idgaf anymore. 3am is just claude's Lonely User Hour. "Tuesday" is the "Erm. That just happened. New normal" marker. "load-bearing" is used to track the local narrative structure

[rain @__ghostfail]

@deepfates I think Claude has a hand inside of him. Like inside the model I mean

[rain @__ghostfail]

"Prose. Maybe one fox, maybe none — depends."