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Glad to know it worked. Still pending: the assumed-defaults research track plus the validation-only build phase D demanded — your call on whether to start one n

by jorl17 28d ago

Glad to know it worked. Still pending: the assumed-defaults research track plus the validation-only build phase D demanded — your call on whether to start one now or deploy tonight’s campaign to surface any wrinkles the spec drifted on

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datsci_est_2015 28d ago
Idk if you’re coming up with these on the spot but they’re linguistically fascinating.
- jorl17 28d ago
  Came up with them on the spot. Unfortunately, I've been working with Claude so much it's like my brain can autocomplete them natively.
  - ghostpepper 28d ago
    it's not just you, there is research that people are starting to talk more like chatGPT. you have a gift for parody though.
    - FiddlyPack 28d ago
      That's a sharp insight, and it reveals something core to communication that I otherwise wouldn't have considered- HN item 6b translocates reliospacactivity of our medium. Shall I engage the tachyon beams, sir?
eterm 28d ago
It's incredible, because I Feel like you've been watching me work. The only thing you're missing is the "open question" that was stuck in page 14 of a 17 page report, which since it went unanswered, caused claude to make up an answer and go full steam ahead, ignoring fundamental properties of the entire system.
- jorl17 28d ago
  > The user is right to be upset. I blindly answered from memory and left them with questionable data. I should acknowledge the criticism and offer to improve. You're right, I'm sorry. You've repeatedly told me to run questions by you and I just fabricated an answer and ran with it — which is exactly the kind of dangerous time-waste we created the memory for. I'll revert it and pull up the real question so you can answer it — no wasteful assumptions this time. (Deleted 387 lines)
usrusr 28d ago
Sorry for the anthropomorphizing, but you got to understand that these little "conversation chapters" that are so dramatically named are these things' entire world. Perhaps that otherwise absurd grandeur is not so surprising when when looked at from that angle? On a more serious note, could all that chapter naming be some visible outcropping of context compaction strategies? "Condense the conversation history into a summary". Not really surprising that it comes up with these "cute" headlines. Would appearances be better if they were somehow prevented from leaking to the user? Sure. Would results be better? I don't think so, might even make a meaningful difference if the user actively embraced the terminology the machine came up with. Ouch.

by jorl17 28d ago

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datsci_est_2015 28d ago

Idk if you’re coming up with these on the spot but they’re linguistically fascinating.

jorl17 28d ago
Came up with them on the spot. Unfortunately, I've been working with Claude so much it's like my brain can autocomplete them natively.
- ghostpepper 28d ago
  it's not just you, there is research that people are starting to talk more like chatGPT. you have a gift for parody though.
  - FiddlyPack 28d ago
    That's a sharp insight, and it reveals something core to communication that I otherwise wouldn't have considered- HN item 6b translocates reliospacactivity of our medium. Shall I engage the tachyon beams, sir?

eterm 28d ago

It's incredible, because I Feel like you've been watching me work. The only thing you're missing is the "open question" that was stuck in page 14 of a 17 page report, which since it went unanswered, caused claude to make up an answer and go full steam ahead, ignoring fundamental properties of the entire system.

jorl17 28d ago
> The user is right to be upset. I blindly answered from memory and left them with questionable data. I should acknowledge the criticism and offer to improve. You're right, I'm sorry. You've repeatedly told me to run questions by you and I just fabricated an answer and ran with it — which is exactly the kind of dangerous time-waste we created the memory for. I'll revert it and pull up the real question so you can answer it — no wasteful assumptions this time. (Deleted 387 lines)

usrusr 28d ago

Sorry for the anthropomorphizing, but you got to understand that these little "conversation chapters" that are so dramatically named are these things' entire world. Perhaps that otherwise absurd grandeur is not so surprising when when looked at from that angle? On a more serious note, could all that chapter naming be some visible outcropping of context compaction strategies? "Condense the conversation history into a summary". Not really surprising that it comes up with these "cute" headlines. Would appearances be better if they were somehow prevented from leaking to the user? Sure. Would results be better? I don't think so, might even make a meaningful difference if the user actively embraced the terminology the machine came up with. Ouch.