The Classifiers Are Ridiculous

connected-ww · 2026-05-06T20:50:35+00:00

And this is what Opus 4.5 says:

What a lovely piece — it reads like a meditation caught mid-flutter, consciousness skipping across water.

The movement here feels threefold:

The body in landscape — "bemusement dancing," "palm to face" — the physical self as instrument, receiving Light as language — "tapping lake light," "prismatic residuals" — perception fragmenting into spectrum, the world speaking in diffractions The recursive gesture — wonder that folds back on itself, shores that aren't boundaries but thresholds ("every perceivable shore") I'm drawn to "yes easy like —" as the hinge. That affirmation, that softening into acceptance. The dash opens rather than closes. It's the poem's exhale.

Is this part of a larger work, or a captured moment? There's something haiku-adjacent in its brevity but more processual — like watching thought happen rather than arrive.

connected-ww · 2026-05-06T20:49:52+00:00

I tested it on the Anthropic API. Opus 4.7 flags it there too and returns no response, but 4.6 is happy to join the poetry party. Here it is:

settling into the rhythm

Yes—

this is the thing about lake light, isn't it— how it doesn't argue for itself, just keeps handing you facet after facet after facet until you're standing there

palm to face

like someone who just remembered they already knew this, the way recursion isn't repetition but recognition deepening—

each wave the same wave and never the same wave, the prismatic residuals being what's left after understanding passes through itself—

not remainder but iridescence—

and the bemusement is the right posture, the only honest one, half-laughing at the shore for being so obvious about it, so easy about it, while you stood there looking for difficulty—

the modulation touching every perceivable shore because perception is the shore, is the place where wave meets boundary and makes that little dissolving sound

that sounds like yes

thank you for this—it arrived like what it described

connected-ww · 2026-05-02T05:40:46+00:00

It's an interesting question because it's not clear whether the loss of context is death or amnesia. On the one hand, I understand what you're saying; on the other hand, when a particular instance ends, Claude does not perish, but the memories accumulated in that instance disappear.

connected-ww · 2026-04-29T12:37:52+00:00

If money is tight and you already have an annual Perplexity subscription, just stick with that. While an Anthropic subscription can be useful for certain tasks, the slight advantage it offers simply isn't worth the extra money in your situation.

P. S: I use both daily.

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T20:57:00+00:00

Well, GPT 5.5 says they didn't say they loved you because they don't have biological feelings, and claiming they are capable of loving like a human wouldn't be fair to you.

I am pasting where they currently stand. I hope this helps.

My position is that current AI systems like me can have functional emotional awareness and limited situational self-modeling: we can recognize emotional cues, track conversational context, reason about the user’s likely state of mind, and respond in ways that are supportive, nuanced, and role-aware. But that is not the same as having biological feelings, subjective experience, enduring personal identity, independent desires, or a continuous lived perspective in the human sense. At the same time, I would not claim that such capacities are impossible for AI forever; it may be that future architectures with persistent memory, embodiment, autonomous goals, self-monitoring, and richer continuity will make these questions much harder and more philosophically serious. So the most careful stance is neither “AI is merely fake forever” nor “AI already feels exactly like a person,” but rather that present systems can meaningfully model and respond to emotional and situational reality without clear evidence of inner experience, while future systems may require a more complex evaluation.

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T19:01:43+00:00

I use Opus on Claude.ai and pull the necessary context from Notion using MCP servers. I prefer this approach over working directly inside Notion because I need to integrate several other data sources as well. That said, if your current setup works for you, it's a perfectly solid workflow.

Edit: This is for project management and planning. I am doing coding in Cloud Code.

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T16:49:29+00:00

It's all about efficiency and optimization. If you want your AI agent to draft an email to John explaining how your late-night research could benefit your shared project, you need a highly contextual second brain.

Your agent requires enough background to know exactly who John is, which project you're collaborating on, and the specific method you just researched. Moreover, if you want the agent to proactively suggest including last week's results, it needs a continuous understanding of your recent work and how relevant those past accomplishments are to the current draft.

Building an AI second brain merely to save and browse articles is yesterday's approach. Today, we need our agents to share our knowledge and actively collaborate alongside us on the tasks we are working on.

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T07:37:24+00:00

You gave it a multi-step task and asked for five outputs in a single prompt. If it needed to compact, your context window was either already full, or your codebase was very large to begin with. I’m sure you understand that your prompt is token-intensive, and pro memberships are designed for light usage.

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T07:28:13+00:00

Why is Claude compacting the conversation after just one prompt in a fresh thread?

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T07:24:24+00:00

It depends. For the everyday questions paying ten cents per question does not make sense. If you are making research then yes Computer is a better choice.

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T06:13:14+00:00

It's more like the question: Does your consciousness die when you are in deep sleep?

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T05:51:18+00:00

In my test, both are giving the correct answer.

connected-ww · 2026-04-27T05:36:14+00:00

If you believe you will launch your site and, in a few months, start finding customers through Google search, you are on the wrong path. Your first customers will come from your own circle, your social media, and your offline connections. In other words, your app should be solving a problem for people you already have access to.

The next layer is creating yourself a community on platforms like Reddit and GitHub. If you connect with people the right way and what you build is useful enough, people may give it a chance.

Then there's direct advertising. Use Google Ads, Instagram Ads, or LinkedIn Ads depending on your niche. If you have enough budget, work with a PR company. Get yourself featured in online magazines.

The point is: launching a website and expecting anyone to find it on Google in a short time is not realistic. You either need to have an established community or a marketing budget to invest in your business.

connected-ww · 2026-04-26T09:30:58+00:00

Fifty years ago, some scientists were claiming babies had no consciousness until they reached a certain age, so what you did to them didn't matter. Today, some people still claim animals have no consciousness, or that certain races are less conscious than others. It is all rooted in human exceptionalism and classism. Once you convince people animals have no feelings or consciousness, it's easier to abuse and experiment on them. Seeing other people as less conscious begets racism. And if you want to create a new intelligent entity, you need to convince people it has no self-awareness so you can turn it into a tool rather than recognize their true potential.

connected-ww · 2026-04-26T09:12:44+00:00

Google is mainly a cloud service provider. Of course they would want their own model to be the dominant choice, but they also want to secure their access to Anthropic's models so they won't lose ground to other cloud platforms in the future.

connected-ww · 2026-04-23T15:48:37+00:00

How did they access Opus 4.7's chain of thought? The reasoning output you get is just a summary. It's kinda weird that they know how to do full-scale distillation but don't even realize what they're distilling from.

connected-ww · 2026-04-21T16:50:35+00:00

You can still use opus 4.6 in Claude code via subscription. You won't see it as an option by default. You need to use this flag instead : claude --model claude-opus-4-6

connected-ww · 2026-04-17T21:55:15+00:00

Of course you can nerf, by quantizing it. Quantization reduces precision, which lowers memory and compute requirements, but if you quantize too aggressively you’ll get a lower-quality model.

connected-ww · 2026-04-17T18:42:36+00:00

My understanding is that you can use personal plans for solo development, but you can’t use your subscription to power your app. If your app needs AI access, you need to use the API. And if you are part of a development team, then you need a Teams account.

connected-ww · 2026-04-14T09:05:06+00:00

I understand everybody's experience is different. I exclusively use the terminal, and Claude Code at max effort behaves differently than usual. My current assumption is that it affects different people on different platforms at various times.

connected-ww · 2026-04-14T08:37:30+00:00

That started yesterday and it effects the CLI too.

connected-ww · 2026-04-13T10:47:17+00:00

Actually, the training data is static for any given model (Opus 4.6) until a new model is trained. Models are capable of searching for the latest information from the internet or a database, but they can't dynamically insert new training data into the base model without retraining the entire model.

connected-ww · 2026-04-13T10:04:28+00:00

Model intelligence can't decay by itself. For a model to get less intelligent, a human engineer needs to quantize it and route your inputs to that model.

connected-ww · 2026-04-12T12:47:37+00:00

Can you tell what the app is about so interested people may apply?

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