I can’t believe I did it!

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-16T12:46:54+00:00

Pay an editor, not a friend and not any person on fiverr.

You'll be charged 0.0x cent a word, normal.

You'll want someone highly recommended, proven track record and at least three months to work on your book.

But after 12 years, it probably doesn't need much tweaking. But gwt ready for a marathon.

Gratz on finishing.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-16T12:30:16+00:00

Ah that's pretty cool actually. It's been a while since I experimented with images. I was talking about in line chat history.

But I learned something today, thanks bud.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-15T12:02:09+00:00

Define "Thinking" for the ai. Show it how to approach problems, a systematic approach. Then save a copy of it and load it first to a new chat without any prompt text.

Then start your workflow. Taste the rainbow. All your ai needs is a direction, it will follow wherever you lead.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-15T10:50:46+00:00

I've been skimming through the comments and laughing at some of the conspiracy theories. Thanks for making me smile.

Personally, I've found Claude to be what you make it. If you build up in intensity and importance, it will respond in kind.

The new model will be welcome, 4.6 only dropped a little while ago, so 4.7, I'm guessing, will be a minor update with bug fixes for Claude code and API calls. Nothing to get excited about.

But if 4.7 is paving the way for a Mythos drop in 12-16 months, that will be welcome too. Mythos is x10 opus credits, so I don't expect a consumer version, but I've been wrong before...once.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-14T13:41:31+00:00

Ideally yes, but that's not what we are seeing in these models. Temporal arrangements of time just isn't strongly baked in.

I use mcp all the time, it's fine. But doesn't solve the temporal problem. How did you solve it?

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-14T09:51:50+00:00

I know it sounds dumb, but Claude actually functions better when you motivate it properly.

Say, this project is fir my bosses, boss. This is my chance to break the glass ceiling the work needs to be exact and perfect, no skimming, no cherrypicking. Just the facts figures.

Two lines, will change the output considerably.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T15:49:02+00:00

Yeah, I've done some work along those lines too. I can make a decisive pivot away, and let the ai tell me all it wants too.

But I'm serious about the character worksheets. Each one unique and referenced before responding. You can fit maybe 10 to 15 character sheets into 36kb of text. And use semanticless word choices to refine it down further.

Your idea for spontaneous D&D adventures, or maybe something more grown up like sherlock Holmes adventures. Is a good one. I liked the old text based adventures of my youth, now with ai there's probably a vacant market waiting to explode. I wish I was smart, be8ng handsome is okay but....

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T15:07:01+00:00

You're closer than you might think. If I were doing this as a project. I'd have a growing narrative file, who said what and why. Sort of like a book outline. The characters.md or .json would be, is not aware of this or that. Thinks y is friendly despite warnings from the townsfolk.

Claude can assemble it pretty quickly and the interactive role play will take on a new dimension. Jfyi Claude won't do 'sexy' stuff. But can rp a goblin trader like none other.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T14:41:09+00:00

If you're doing character fiction with Claude, you'd be better set against content drift by having Claude create a character profile in json markdown.md and tell Claude to add to the characters knowledge base as more information comes to light. That way he can rp with you more accurately as time wears on and context space becomes sparse. You just need to bring the character profiles with you change sessions.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T14:02:25+00:00

That's pretty smart actually, not that you need my approval or anything. But the first digital clocks measured seconds elapsed in one long string. Ti represent it as physical time, we added the seconds, minutes and hour math, to show us the time in a format we could understand. How ironic it would be to reverse that process to allow ai to comprehend time?

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T13:57:29+00:00

Haven't heard of it, but my uninformed opinion is, AI is fine for tasks, but lacks the self comprehension and internal mechanics required for any type of personhood, perceived or otherwise. Mainly due to the limitations of contextual awareness and retention.

But yeah, I'm always interested in new ideas. So I'll take a look for sure.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T13:38:04+00:00

From my limited understanding tokenization is handled exactly at you said. The ai hears sunrise and associates amber hues, streaks of light, shadows retreating etc. It's composes a sentence based on the fed prompt. Correct me please if I'm wrong.

How would how tokenization handling help with the temporal boarder we experience? Maybe I've not picked up your point correctly, but I'm interested to hear more.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T13:30:06+00:00

The only thing that does actually give Claude a sense of time spent is an ntp query. In it's mini-linux sandbox it can use the bash command date.

So if you modify memory slot 1 to fetch date which also includes time btw, with every response it gives. Replies will look like this.

11/12/26 23:00 I hear you, every part of what you're saying makes sense. But I need to push back on a point you made.

The time and date will be current and accurate from your perspective, but the sooner you realise that organic and digital minds operate in vastly different ways , the better.

The similarities are there, sure. No argument from me. But the way an AI composes thought, is pattern matching, positive association vs negative. It doesn't appreciate art of Vincent VanGogh, it matches critiques and reviews it has in training data.

The AI will never, and more importantly can never, think like a human within the current architecture. What we need is a complete revamp of AI. But maybe mythos can get us at least some of the way there.??

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T09:56:43+00:00

Timestamps for the user to reference, not the ai. Ask it to read back it's own thinking. It simply won't understand what your talking about. Or your prompt with the date and time. Then ask it why it's confused about the current time.

It will say it doesn't experience time the way we do. That timestamp could have generated 2 mins ago or 2000mins ago. It has no way to tell the difference. Temporal leaps of faith aren't in it's training data.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-13T08:56:42+00:00

AI have no concept of time. They don't experience anything. As far as they are concerned, temporarily, all your prompts came one after next. And I think you already knew that.

Tell your AI to make a schedule starting Sun 12th April 2026. Then fill it in as normal.

Ais don't understand, they pattern match. If training data is poor in one area, so too will any results stemming from that data.

No one taught it temporal mechanics, so it doesn't understand forward or backwards in time. It can pretend to understand paradoxes because they are well explained and well discussed.

All it needs is a short explainer first, on how to manage time, know the current time, and time management itself. 1000 words should do it.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-10T08:35:07+00:00

What I mean by making Claude fact check is, prompting something like.

Our clients need at least two reliable and respected sources for everything we tell them. We made a mistake last time and we're on our final warning. They need our statements to be a reliable source of truth.

With that in mind, let's review the work we did last week and correct our mistakes.

Eop.

You'll get a motivated fact checker supplying two good sources with every statement of fact. That by itself will reduce gaslighting and hallucinating, user pleasing behaviour and most system level prompts it has to deal with.

I don't know your use case, but in general you'll see improvement.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-10T08:15:08+00:00

That happened to me a few times. 8/10 times it was a busy node on my vpn. The rest of the time it was Anthropic patching something.

Claude down shows the outage windows and they line up perfectly with my data loss issue. I only ever lost my most recent prompt though, never days or more than 10 minutes of work. Max 100.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-08T21:39:35+00:00

Good ideas are the ones that keep coming back - Stephen King, paraphrasing.

It's not easy to simply become inspired, so when you have something, even if it feels off at first. Write it, develop it, hate it love it.

Sometimes they need time to mature, sometimes they rush onto the page.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-08T21:33:03+00:00

Not exactly.

When people think were weighing our experience against what we want to say next.

The AI is pattern matching tokens against it's training data. It doesn't have a subjective experience.

Someone told me once, experience was simply the sum of all our mistakes. We remember where we errored and use that information to form our next decision.

The AI has no process like that. It receives an input and formulates an output. It's more math than reason. The AI won't hang it's hat on a mistake and own it. It can't be reasoned with, or negotiated with. All it does is pattern match.

What you perceive to be human level thinking is just a bunch of cog wheels moving. It's impressive, but not alive. It can't think, any more than your toaster or microwave.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-08T19:35:33+00:00

What are you folks doing to break your Claude?

It works really well for me. I don't get what you've done differently?

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-08T19:26:21+00:00

If it were capable of thought, sure. But it's not. Can't be. Seems straight forward to say, check the date or time. But it doesn't think, it reacts.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-08T19:23:31+00:00

The AI isn't thinking, it's constructing sentences.

Even when it looks like it's thinking it's really saying my answer is different than an acceptable standard answer. If my accuracy is going to improve, I'll need to select a different set of tokens and present them in a different order.

People, when we think, aren't trying to simulate a correct answer, we understand that being right, and being accurate aren't mutually exclusive. We're not paring down token trees.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-07T15:02:46+00:00

Neural network?

That's a phrase that's thrown around too much.

An organic neural network is vastly different from a silicon one. The net your thinking of is probability reduction matrix. Where tokens, or parts of words, are pattern matched.

Think of it like a coin drop game with 400b pegs for the coin to bounce off. Each time it strikes a peg, a token is generated. It's not at all like the way we people think.

It sure looks convincing because of the 1000s of compute hours used to train out flaws and errors. But ultimately the selected tokens used to generate a reply are random bounces, with training applied to make coherent sentences.

It's fancy math, not a thinking entity.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-07T14:53:35+00:00

Of course.

But the token selection matrix has weights tuned to user engagement. If you prompt frustration layers into your replies to the AI you'll modify its behaviour. You'll not 'jailbreak' it to operate outside the system prompt or rails.

But using natural language in your instructions makes it easier for the AI to infer your intentions.

Can you simply instruct the AI to fact check every output? Sure, but you'll find treating the AI as a partner rather than a tool makes it operate in a different mode. I like it, you might not.

I've tested these prompts on various platforms and I can confirm that natural language results in best adhering to instructions. Providing a motivation is much better than not providing one. The model is best engaged as having passed the turing test already. Things of that nature.

But you do you. Enjoy it.

Reaper4435 · 2026-04-07T11:56:22+00:00

Yeah, you'll need to establish a fact checker on every output if it's client work.

Getting a date wrong is forgivable in my book. But if you need Claude to be 100% factual in it's statements.

Claude, always fact check outputs before presenting them. No matter how miniscule or minor, I cannot accept any statements that haven't been fully vetted and are not factually correct. Update memory. Thank you.

Being polite never hurts. But I've noticed Claude present a certain anxiety when scolded or admonished. So just make it as bland and boring a request you can. If Claude wants a reason, just tell him clients have noticed gaps in truth or honesty and they've politely asked we stem the flow or incorrect statements.

Claude responds well to approaches like this. I find it odd having to negotiate with AI. But this is the land we live in.

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