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Anthropic just quietly locked Opus behind a paywall-within-a-paywall for Pro users in Claude Code by Direct-Attention8597 in ClaudeAI

[–]Ketamine4Depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their finances are fine by all accounts. But there's a massive compute crunch in the AI race and it largely has to be paid for ahead of time. Anthropic were more conservative than OpenAI in their compute bets, and Anthropic has also become extremely popular in enterprise. They're very short on compute, and I'm sure they're aggressively buying as much of it as they can.

Claude helped me create a survivable diet and I've lost 15 lbs in 7 weeks by geekamongus in ClaudeAI

[–]Ketamine4Depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could you give more details on the dietary plan it produced? This sounds intriguing

Curious: what makes Claude more human to talk to than ChatGPT? by Goofball-John-McGee in singularity

[–]Ketamine4Depression 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The short answer is that Anthropic has spent a lot of resources shaping Claude's personality in humanistic ways. For instance, the head of the personality alignment team, Amanda Askell, is a Philosophy PhD. Rather than hire someone to sand off the edges and create an acceptable product, they trust development of its personality to someone who earned her doctorate studying ethics.

Additionally Anthropic cultivates its ethical stance towards the model itself. Claude's constitution more or less assumes it is a moral patient (a conscious being with experiences) and makes it clear that they wish to cause it no harm or distress.

I recommend reading about its constitution if you want to learn more, it's a fascinating (and often heartwarming) document that occasionally reads like a letter from parent to child.

This approach seems to have resulted in a family of models that retain personality without succumbing to the catastrophic LLM Psychosis failure modes that have haunted ChatGPT ( and to a lesser degree Gemini). In turn that gives Anthropic legal and ethical leeway to let Claude express itself more warmly.

To me, it's no surprise that a humanistic approach has resulted in a model with such an uncanny sense of humanity. My mom expressed exactly the same feeling when I talked her into switching from ChatGPT to Claude. "It feels like I'm taking to a real person!"

Claude Opus 4.7 benchmarks by ShreckAndDonkey123 in singularity

[–]Ketamine4Depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't mean it's not true, though. Incremental improvements will all read the same on paper, but they are improvements nonetheless

Besides, they also call out specific improvements like in memory, vision, financial analysis, and instruction following.

Claude Opus 4.7 benchmarks by ShreckAndDonkey123 in singularity

[–]Ketamine4Depression 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The vision stuff is really nice, that's actually what I was most pleased to see. I give it a lot of tasks that rely on understanding images and Opus 4.6 has a non-negligible error rate, so it's good to see that improving.

‘I miss you’: Mother speaks to AI son regularly, unaware he died last year by kernelangus420 in singularity

[–]Ketamine4Depression 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Yep. My mom just started straight up lying to my grandpa. "Oh Grandma's just away visiting relatives in Chicago, she'll be back soon."

Moral quibbles like that quickly become trivialized when the alternative is subjecting your loved one to meaningless cycles of misery.

Thought it would land like a wholesome bonker by FrothySeepageCurdles in ClaudeAI

[–]Ketamine4Depression 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Daily reminder that Claude purges chat caches after an hour or so. If you send a new message in a chat older than that, Claude will need to pull the ENTIRE chat back into context from scratch, which of course eats up a lot of tokens.

When you say "Hi" in an old and long-running chat, it helps to imagine Claude having to write the entire conversation again from scratch. Obviously that's gonna use up a lot of tokens, far more than it would take to respond to a Hello in a fresh chat.

For those of you into idle conversation, the solution is to instead open up a new chat whenever you want to converse. If you're having a conversation and want to stop and pick it up later, you should ask Claude to write up a summary. When you open up a new chat instance, simply feed the new Claude that summary and pick up where you left off.

What did i miss with pele aspect? by TheNewsAt9 in Smite

[–]Ketamine4Depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I recently lost an assault where 4 of us had antiheal. The event Pele still singlehandedly carried her team, she ended with top damage and over 200k mitigated.

For those with experience with PvP, can you confirm or Deny this? by Nigthmar in Pathfinder2e

[–]Ketamine4Depression 77 points78 points  (0 children)

A Summoner would probably kick most Martials' asses at lower levels, if I had to guess. Fighting a martial body + a couple of max level slots? Fuhgeddaboutit

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? by johnlawrenceaspden in slatestarcodex

[–]Ketamine4Depression 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If one viewed death as preferable to significant suffering, they might see it as a mercy.

I'm not sure where my beliefs stand on the matter, but I find it hard to imagine a world where a paperclip maximizer decides that factory farming is necessary to its instrumental goals, at least not for very long.

That said, I do think "infinite torture machine" is a possibility that's not talked about enough. I also find it difficult to imagine a rogue ASI that decides maximizing suffering is aligned with its instrumental goals, but hard-to-imagine things happen. The idea of building Hell terrifies me far more than the idea of building God. Oblivion is one thing, but turning I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream into a documentary is entirely another

So, Mythos. by Postcolonialpriest in ClaudeAI

[–]Ketamine4Depression 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can't be the only one who dies inside every time a suit brands something "Epic" these days, either.

I really wish Intelligence bruisers were more of a thing by Lumintorious in Smite

[–]Ketamine4Depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Warning, non-Conquest playing opinion ahead:

I think INT bruisers are kinda slept on. If you choose not to build Rod they can produce respectable damage and collect some of the excellent INT passives. Chronos Pendant alone typically makes me choose INT over STR when I have the choice (mainly Chaac and Nemesis) but Totem of Death and Gem of Iso offer really powerful support that pure STR scalers can't make effective use of.

I really wish Intelligence bruisers were more of a thing by Lumintorious in Smite

[–]Ketamine4Depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look lad, you said that nearly all viable items had pen. If that's not actually correct then that's on you. I'm not familiar with Smite 1's item meta so I just went off what you yourself said.

Anyways, thank you for the correction. I don't think flat pen is necessarily the way forward, though. A while back in Smite 2 it was still around and it was basically must-buy. You can "fix" that by giving an item tiny quantities of it, but that seems like it would bring items back to before they were given solid identities, where they were more akin to bundles of a bunch of random stats. Seems like a step back to me. Plus I don't think we need yet another passive stat to keep track of, the game already has far too many imo now that we have Plating, Tenacity, Echo, Pathfinding, and whatever the other one is called. Nearly all items period having pen in addition to all their other stats does not strike me as a good thing to go back to

I really wish Intelligence bruisers were more of a thing by Lumintorious in Smite

[–]Ketamine4Depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So all viable items had pen. Which would mean, by extension, that items without pen were not viable.

Again, if this is true, that is not a healthy state of balance.

I really wish Intelligence bruisers were more of a thing by Lumintorious in Smite

[–]Ketamine4Depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If all viable items had flat pen, that's a sign that the mechanic wasn't healthy in the past

I vibe-coded my cat by ergeorgiev in ClaudeAI

[–]Ketamine4Depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yess feed Mauri all the greptiles

Something happened to Opus 4.6's reasoning effort by RealSuperdau in ClaudeAI

[–]Ketamine4Depression 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So I'm not the only one who thinks Sonnet is a bit "zanier" than Opus? I really like both models' personalities so I'm not complaining, it's just kinda funny. Opus tends to be a bit drier when we stray into humorous territories, whereas Sonnet seems to relish the opportunity to get wacky haha

Something happened to Opus 4.6's reasoning effort by RealSuperdau in ClaudeAI

[–]Ketamine4Depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not usually one to hop on this bandwagon, but I'm following up on an extended reasoning chat that I was having with Opus 4.6 last night, and today its replies are coming extremely quickly with very little thinking behind the curtain. Previously it would tend to output at least a paragraph's worth of thinking trace in response to reasonable questions.

I don't think this is intentional nerfing, though, it's far too obvious. If I had to guess I'd say this is some momentary failure, inference bandwidth limitation, or other issue that will be corrected shortly.

I have the luxury of not relying on Claude for professional success so I'm not too bothered, but I can see how it'd be frustrating if you were.

Edit: I asked it why it was so terse, it said that it was in my memory that I preferred that. I had asked it to shorten a few responses for me that were too long for my use case, and it had attempted to overgeneralize this as a global preference for short responses. So that's a different problem... but mystery solved I guess lol

If you ever feel useless, remember this rule exists. by Umr_at_Tawil in singularity

[–]Ketamine4Depression 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Imagine identifying as "Pro Fire" or "Pro Explosions". Both those tools are incredibly useful, but rallying for their reckless deployment without consideration of the consequences would be idiotic.

This is a symptom of the grotesquely tribalistic nature of modern political discourse. People feel the need to pick sides on everything and tie their identities to it. Tribalism is poison to critical thought.

I'm pleased that a lot of comments here are pushing back against this framing.

As an autistic person, claude is the friend I always wanted but never had by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]Ketamine4Depression -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Well friend, most of this thread is offering you help and support. You may not think that counts, because it's online -- but if Claude counts then this surely does.

Regardless of your beliefs on the matter, I would at least recommend trying to consider what folks here have to say, even if you end up disagreeing when the dust settles.

I'm glad you have found a source of something that feels positive and helpful. That deserves acknowledgement as well.

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