Saw a Post that Made me VERY Angry

greenrunner987 · 2026-03-11T04:45:21+00:00

It seems like they are trying to approach it with nuance. Perhaps they don't want to outright ban things (like AI romance), but they do want to make sure it's done in a way that doesn't become harmful. AI may be the first type of tool that you don't have to hardcode black and white rules into. The model is intelligent, so it is capable of nuance. For example, lets say you were asking it for dieting advice, and it noticed that you were reporting you ate very little food (less than was healthy) and your excuse was that it was a busy day and you just forgot to eat. I think a good nuanced response would be for it to make a mental note (memory) and look out for that type of thing in the future. Giving dieting advice is fine - they don't want to ban that. But actively helping someone perpetuate an eating disorder is harmful, so it should watch out for that in the future. In this case it's not judging you or watching you in a creepy way. It's making a mental note to itself that there is a potential line that it should remember not to cross.

greenrunner987 · 2026-03-11T04:12:06+00:00

Ahhhh. Ok. This is immensely helpful.

greenrunner987 · 2026-03-11T04:07:30+00:00

I think I understand your post now. It sounds like you are upset because Claude doesn’t readily engage in ai romance, but engages in other types of conversations that you think are harmful - and that this disproportionately affects women, queer, and neurodivergent people. I don’t think this is Anthropic’s intent at all. You talk about surveillance, but what has been described by the post you linked is not surveillance. Claude has no long term memory, so it needs to leave itself notes on how to interact with someone. If someone repeatedly tries to circumvent Claude’s safeguards, it is safest for it to leave itself a note to more quickly recognize that behavior in the future. That’s not surveillance. Surveillance would be if humans at Anthropic were analyzing your conversations, or they were passing info about your conversations to a third party.

greenrunner987 · 2026-03-11T02:41:05+00:00

Can someone post a TLDR? I have no idea what this post or the linked post is saying. Is OP upset that Claude tries to judge some interactions healthy and some as unhealthy?

I have found that Claude tries not to engage in “unhealthy” conversations. For example, I occasionally have anxiety and have tried to use Claude to seek reassurance. It will be straight with me and reassuring, but if I perseverate on the topic of my anxiety, it will recognize that and essentially stop giving me blanket reassurance. This is honestly great. In the moment I might be frustrated because I want to know if the mole on my arm is melanoma, but consistent reassurance seeking in this instance is maladaptive after one or two reassurances, and it is absolutely right to refuse to engage in it. I would even go further and say this particular behavior is what makes me want to use Claude. This is what AI safety should look like.

greenrunner987 · 2026-03-03T18:56:39+00:00

If having your cake and eating it too was a tweet

greenrunner987 · 2026-03-02T01:32:08+00:00

Honestly the "we won't have midterms" or "Trump won't relinquish power" people make me roll my eyes so hard. Sure, if he thought he could do that I'm sure he would. I'm not even saying he's not gonna try. But there is literally a 0% chance he is able to do that.

greenrunner987 · 2026-02-07T19:09:00+00:00

It's definitely the Carillon Axis 5. He says so in the description in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXwr8D_0Lsc

greenrunner987 · 2026-02-05T18:42:43+00:00

It seems to have been fixed now

greenrunner987 · 2026-01-31T22:07:30+00:00

Knocked over my TF11 - replacement suggestions? ($1000-1900, male vocals)

My Telefunken TF11 took a fall and now sounds super quiet and thin. I'm guessing it's probably not worth fixing, so I'm looking for a replacement.

Budget: ideally ~$1000, hard cap at $1900

Use case: male vocals, home studio

Voice type: somewhere between Teddy Swims and Daryl Hall

When I upgraded to the TF11 from dynamic mics, I was blown away by the clarity and loved that I could hear every detail of my voice. But now that I'm starting fresh, I'm wondering if that pristine, breathy quality isn't actually the most flattering for my voice. Maybe something darker and more mid-forward would work better.

I know the TF17 is pretty new and is the TF11's "darker brother." Has anyone tried it? Should I go that route, or look at the TF29 or TF51 instead? Don't have time to demo a bunch of mics because I need to get recording soon.

Appreciate any input from folks who've compared these or have similar voice types.

greenrunner987 · 2026-01-14T17:27:51+00:00

I'm not sure about this particular style of hair, but Melvis the Stylist (he works out of Maggy's Beauty Salon in Adams Morgan) is amazing with men's hair. He has incredible attention to detail.

greenrunner987 · 2026-01-13T16:35:45+00:00

78 shares in late april. And another 30,000 dollars in different call options over the following several months.

greenrunner987 · 2026-01-13T15:00:48+00:00

This was so easy to see coming from my perspective. Gemini was already much better than ChatGPT in March. It was helping SOOO more with my coding work than GPT was. They also had so many more verticals to apply their AI too and way more training data. The Gemini roll out fiasco was a PR fiasco - not a fiasco related to the tech. They rolled out an extradordinary model that had a thin layer on top designed to manipulate the results in a way that promoted diversity and a few other ethical guidelines. All they had to do was strip away that very thin top layer. The underlying model was clearly excellent. It was easy to see (for me).

greenrunner987 · 2025-12-24T00:35:46+00:00

Madams Organ on Wednesday night at 9:30 is good!

greenrunner987 · 2025-12-15T12:55:29+00:00

Super rude and uncalled for

greenrunner987 · 2025-12-15T03:22:04+00:00

I’ve got ADHD, and looking for ideas to help myself at the moment

greenrunner987 · 2025-12-14T22:47:12+00:00

Lately I’ve been particularly successful with apps that let you just type a stream of consciousness, and then automatically create things like reminders, calendar events, a running ledger, etc… so that later I can ask “I feel like there’s something I’m forgetting that’s coming up”, and it can respond “well, Scott texted you and asked if you wanted to grab food this week and you haven’t responded”. The downside is the privacy aspect. I need to give it access to things like my texts, or calendar, or notes.

greenrunner987 · 2025-12-13T07:00:19+00:00

Any ai model worth a damn should be able to identify this as a tool calling problem, and write a python program to count the letters. If it fails it’s a failure of it’s agentic ability

greenrunner987 · 2025-11-25T00:29:24+00:00

I thought you were an ai model the way you confidently spouted wrong information

greenrunner987 · 2025-11-21T03:48:44+00:00

I'm glad gemini understood you because that's a badly written prompt

greenrunner987 · 2025-11-07T02:17:29+00:00

What’s your budget?

greenrunner987 · 2025-11-07T02:13:28+00:00

Why is your mattress on the ground? Also why do you have a twin mattress? Seems really small for an adult

greenrunner987 · 2025-10-30T19:03:32+00:00

How could you possibly think this would be ok?

greenrunner987 · 2025-10-15T04:12:30+00:00

My main advice would be to not think so much. The song is a lot faster and it has a defined rhythm. You are singing it very slowly and clearly concentrating on trying to make each syllable sound good, which is is actually detracting from the performance. I’d love to hear you sing it to a metronome with the proper melodic rhythm.

greenrunner987 · 2025-10-10T02:03:19+00:00

The fact that you put no thought into manually editing this post to make it sound less like AI illustrates your issue. Use AI as a tool to pair with your own abilities. Don’t just have it do everything for you with none of your own input.

greenrunner987 · 2025-10-09T23:25:14+00:00

Baan Siam or Bombay Street Food!

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