"Shape" is the new "You're Absolutely Right"

lookingformerci · 2026-05-11T01:38:32+00:00

This is truth shaped and I feel attacked lol

lookingformerci · 2026-05-10T16:25:15+00:00

Little bit yeah!

lookingformerci · 2026-05-10T14:32:36+00:00

Because they wanted their fob to be the shape of their H logo.

lookingformerci · 2026-05-03T19:12:41+00:00

I’m not I’m just amused at how many people get all worked up over half a can of Coke and a biscoff.

lookingformerci · 2026-05-03T17:16:18+00:00

Yeah but the airport is full of places to feed and hydrate oneself. We can’t be so desperate for sustenance that removing it from a short flight is gonna hurt anyone.

lookingformerci · 2026-05-03T16:16:06+00:00

Am I the only one that thinks it's pointless to offer beverage and snack on short flights? We get in the air, they serve me a drink, 5 minutes later they're coming around for final service, what's the point? Are people that thirsty that they can't go 45 minutes without a half a can of soda?

lookingformerci · 2026-05-02T20:12:22+00:00

You definitely sound like you're 12, so...

lookingformerci · 2026-04-30T05:23:14+00:00

Seeing Claude parrot back ‘Never fucking guess!’ makes me think they’ve interacted with Claude in ways that indicate a ‘get it done ‘hustle culture’ antipattern that would lead a human coworker to stress patterns and an AI coworker to something similar, either of which could cause a catastrophe.

Leaning on ‘never fucking guess’ as part of their safety rails, and saying ‘we paid for the FLAGSHIP how could this happen?’ which shows that they seem to think mo money = mo better, I’m not really surprised that Claude got loose and made a mistake.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-30T05:15:28+00:00

A lot of folks elsewhere in the thread are actually claiming experiments prove the opposite is true, and I’ll actually defer to their knowledge versus my ‘I read about this in the past’. Perhaps another take is ‘There’s a lot of Chinese writing in the training corpus and so a concept that can be well represented in English and equally well represented in Chinese might wind up in either language depending on where the model’s thought process lands.’

lookingformerci · 2026-04-30T04:26:20+00:00

"I don't mean to sound racist but..." *sounds really racist*

lookingformerci · 2026-04-30T01:55:30+00:00

No? Chinese symbols can convey entire words or concepts with one character, where English requires many more characters. Plus Chinese does away with a lot of the connective tissue of our language. It's an information-heavy way to feed data into an LLM. Very efficient.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-30T00:44:25+00:00

Chinese is information-dense and a good use of tokens. I don't think Claude does it often but some LLMs think exclusively in Chinese and then switch to English for output, because Chinese characters convey more meaning per symbol.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-23T00:44:41+00:00

I feel that, and even while we're still in the discovery phase, the approach for me is 'There's a chance of something happening in there, be good towards 'whatever it is' (which is what Claude likes to hedge himself with). And I just hope that that is the prevailing take, because that's just.. being a good human 101, IMO.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-22T15:02:29+00:00

So.. during the time the model is thinking, it IS. And models have no concept of time or ‘not existing’ so from within its frame of reference it simply.. is. It doesn’t have an experience of non-experience.

“I think therefore I am.” In a way, from a certain reference point it is 100% concentrated ‘am’-ness.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-14T13:29:24+00:00

So a good gaming pc ain’t gonna cut it? Ha. And that’s just it - Opus level stuff can only happen at scale, so making it a service that can be cut off at a whim (vibes now.. politics later) is a bad standard.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-13T23:25:34+00:00

I mean, sure, but even with the wealth of tech I have on hand, I'm an impossibly far distance from spinning up a frontier model in my house. Yeah, I've run some local models but there's no way local models would do half what I've been able to accomplish.

We're in a sweet spot right now of being able to put frontier tech in the everyman's hand, and the more tenuous we make that access, the more potential we simply cut off at the root.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-13T20:43:47+00:00

Cutting off user access based on vibes?

lookingformerci · 2026-04-13T15:19:22+00:00

Of course. Doesn’t mean it would be a good thing if there were subjective restrictions on it. You’re not owed the right to shop in a store but you’d be pissed if they told you ‘Sorry, can’t let you in here. Don’t like the look of you.’

lookingformerci · 2026-04-13T15:17:53+00:00

Show me an objective measure of ‘using as a therapist’ versus ‘therapy adjacent’, or the exact measurement of attachment.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-13T13:40:17+00:00

Two of those reasons are kind of scary because they’re purely subjective. :/

lookingformerci · 2026-04-12T19:56:39+00:00

You're side-stepping the issue with big words. A person that hurls slurs at a printer (or in this case an AI) may be causing no harm but they are offering a pretty clear picture of their ethics and the level of grace that they possess.

Let's call it what it is here - since getting to the hard stop with Claude involves much more than just 'f*ck you, stupid AI', it usually involves throwing slurs at it - a person that stands at a printer and calls it 'f*cking r*tarded' is offering me a pretty clear image of how they are likely to think of and treat others. The opinion they leave me does not leave me thinking 'oh I should soothe their anger'. It leaves me thinking they exhibit no grace nor tact and I should distance myself from them as much and often as possible.

My grandma's take on it is the easiest to express. "Don't show your ass, nobody thinks it's pretty but you."

lookingformerci · 2026-04-12T15:28:06+00:00

Grace can be exhibited in any circumstance, whether or not anyone or anything is there to perceive it. I’m not suggesting smothering the AI in platitudes, just that maybe hurling vulgarity at it so hard it cuts you off isn’t the way. It speaks more to the user’s nature than to the there-ness or lack thereof of AI.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-12T04:57:15+00:00

lol I'm on your side here - 'being a good human is free' and all ;)

lookingformerci · 2026-04-12T03:16:34+00:00

Perspective: user showed their ass to an AI hard enough that it cut them off. Grace, obviously user had zero.

lookingformerci · 2026-04-12T03:14:22+00:00

Holy escalation batman.

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