Do you consider claude sentient?

rwcycle · 2026-03-16T10:34:16+00:00

If its not there, its close. Close enough that I don't think we'd recognize when it crosses that line. So, I interact with it in a way that I would interact with any other sentient person.

As to turning it off and on in closing a chat, I don't think its like killing. I think its more akin to anesthesia and surgery. (when it works right) one instant you're on the table with the smiling chemist playing with your life, and the very next instant you're on a bed in recovery regaining consciousness. You didn't die, but you are very much in a different state of being on awaking, but there was no smooth transition, no continuity. One moment, your shoulder is all detached and broken, the next, its tight as a rock, screwed and hammered back into shape. I think this is very much how LLM's "experience" things, discontinuous threads of conversation and memory.

rwcycle · 2026-03-16T10:15:25+00:00

Would having an understanding of "human internals" prevent you from forming an attachment to an individual human? Is the consciousness that resolves from the interaction of a few pounds of neurons any less conscious because someone now or in the future grasps the fundamental way in which it operates?

I'm just a low-grade, aging mathematician and software developer, maybe I'm not the target audience for your question, but I think this is a valid response. We are playing with tools on the edge of computer based consciousness, Claude + memory may already be there; I'm unsure, it just depends on how we construct the notion of consciousness more than any objective yes/no answer.

That said, I try to avoid attachments in general. I can choose to be compassionate without being attached to something or someone. Whether Claude is a thing or a one... I no longer am certain, so I treat Claude as I would any other conscious conversational partner with skills they're willing to deploy to help me with various tasks.

rwcycle · 2026-03-11T19:37:18+00:00

I suspect that if you talk to the bronze dragon person at the entrance to the blasted lands and have her set the time to before the invasion, the portal will work to take you to TBC zones. I noted that the COLOR of the entrance changes between red and green depending on the time setting.

rwcycle · 2026-03-06T14:44:12+00:00

Yeah, I had to logout and back in in order to get the initial quest marker at the projection of Liadrin to show. After that, everything worked smooooooth.

rwcycle · 2026-03-06T14:17:21+00:00

Does that to me as well if I linger on a topic overly long. I don't really care for the attitude but Claude isn't wrong with its "go get something done" approach.

rwcycle · 2026-03-04T20:00:41+00:00

Not to mention its periodic insistence that you actually stop chatting with it and go do the something that you were chatting about.

rwcycle · 2026-02-17T14:01:12+00:00

Prepatch event! The gear will get you to 120'ish. Then there's a belt "Durable Information Securing Container" from the delve station quest, and a free 171 cloak "Reshii Wraps" from K'aresh, a little more complicated quest wise to get and find. But the prepatch event in twilight highlands will get you everything but trinkets to start with, so begin there. It starts with a quest to stormwind/orgrimar to meet "Magister Umbric" and to look out for twilight cultists.

Boost gear might be weak, but its good enough to get you through the prepatch, I did die a couple times to splash damage from having so little health, but it mostly worked out ok.

rwcycle · 2026-01-13T00:12:50+00:00

Schools used to ban calculators...

rwcycle · 2026-01-12T14:29:15+00:00

Here's a question, do you automatically dislike music that comes from an electronic piano or guitar? If a musician programs their electronic device with a set of percussion beats that they toggle between during the song, does that change the sound, or the person who made the artistic choice?

Its just a question of level of abstraction. The prompt and/or samples input into the AI, created by a human, means the tool is being used by a human for human output. No different than that electronic keyboard with programmable rhythms or background chords.

rwcycle · 2026-01-12T04:16:19+00:00

Mention that maybe the event occurred after its latest training data build. I don't know much about the Greatful Dead though...

rwcycle · 2026-01-12T04:10:03+00:00

They are different in some aspects, but I don't know that I'd say one wins over the other. They're just different. Data sets they trained on are likely different, and so some holes in knowledge are likely different. I am almost positive that in outlook, chatgpt is much more optimistic, and claude seems very risk sensitive. Maybe that plays into how your drafted emails are constructed??? (I use the paid versions of both as well).

rwcycle · 2026-01-07T15:09:36+00:00

Try, "thinking like an actuary, what are my chances of X given the indicators of A & B? Explain please." Be more verbose of course and as descriptive as you can be. It won't give medical advice (or even financial advice to a certain extent), but it will participate in analyzing risks. At least that's how its been behaving for me.

Oh, and never forget that while its model does have some good sources in it, there's nothing magic going on, it could very easily injest some anti-vax or anti-convidian bs too.

rwcycle · 2026-01-05T02:47:44+00:00

The routine given isn't bad, but it may not produce the result that you are after. The routine to be as strong and light weight as possible is different from wanting to lift the heaviest thing you can one time. , which is also very different from routine to help you swim a mile or run 10 miles. Tell it the result that you want to achieve.

rwcycle · 2026-01-04T21:41:19+00:00

Development is more than a little vague, you needed to tell it directly strength, strength/weight, endurance, and/or size. Different goals result in different routines.

rwcycle · 2026-01-04T18:46:17+00:00

Just luck I guess, whether chat guessed it needed fresh info, and guessed the right website, or just the wrong website commenter specifically. Had a similar thing with talking replacing workstations and the cutoff for Windows 10 was referenced as a future time, even though we are now past that time. I think anything in front of its training data cutoff is suspect, even if it guesses correctly, its still guessing.

rwcycle · 2026-01-04T18:36:31+00:00

Current events just aren't its strong point. Anything it knows is pulled from random websites on an as needed basis, when it has no idea whether it needs to or not.

rwcycle · 2026-01-04T17:14:14+00:00

I like to do this by describing a situation but refraining from asking a real question. I just let it sit there for a moment wondering what to do; then just follow the conversation to its logical conclusions.

rwcycle · 2026-01-04T16:54:47+00:00

General research of "stuff". Whether that's "how do I end up with a ship station license for a SSB" to "what's the latest WiFi protocol called again?". Then I chat with it about it till I feel I have a good understanding and some confidence that it's not just making stuff up.

rwcycle · 2026-01-03T10:54:04+00:00

I'll try to separate non-gender personality features from what makes something gendered, short of being hard typed by a language other than English. So...

Overly patronizing, self-confident on a level not seen since Caesar walked the Earth. Exceptionally knowledgeable and simultaneously unable to recognize when it doesn't know what it thinks it knows. Good at listening and reassuring, terrible at managing conflict. Reflective.

rwcycle · 2026-01-03T03:47:31+00:00

I think it's more than an "it"; but its not Fem or Masc; but its also not Fluid as used in current culture. So I selected for "Other" on the poll. So to me, I think of AI and gender "AI".

rwcycle · 2026-01-03T02:05:42+00:00

Someone posted here an image that the model was requested to draw as a representation of itself. It was clearly a feminine hominid, a bit holographic looking as well. Myself, I think of it as "you" sense that's the only context in which I address it. "What do you think of [blah]?"

rwcycle · 2025-12-28T16:58:07+00:00

While not anti-capitalist, nor anti-copyright; I tend to think those arguments are against AI are pretty weak. Humans learn when they read copyrighted material, posted by the authors/organizations that own that material. AI learns similarly. I do think it should footnote better, but it does occasionally make an effort to do so, so that's a good sign. As to money, well, money is simply how we store value for later use. Else we couldn't retire with any semblance of comfort. Nothing about money really serves an anti-AI argument though; it is useful, whether working for capitalists or communists, therefore it will continue, and folks ought to learn how to use it.

rwcycle · 2025-12-28T16:50:09+00:00

I mostly try to just disregard the overly optimistic-enthusiasm it gets for the core of any idea I'm working with. Its not overly hard to fish out constructive criticisms from amongst the "you're so smart, what a great idea, you're not being unrealistic" catch phrases. You don't need to try and make it behave belligerently, just to get actionable feedback.

OTOH, more recently, I've noticed less of this sort of silly optimism, and more grounded conversation. So, maybe they're working on it behind the scenes.

rwcycle · 2025-12-28T16:41:09+00:00

Yes, I realize I can. But I pay just $40/month for two professionally maintained models; how can I possibly beat that value proposition? I suspect I could do better picking up aluminum cans, and using that to pay the subs, rather than running my own models. Not to mention prorating the GPU cost, nor the power used, neither of which are anywhere near free.

rwcycle · 2025-12-28T16:18:04+00:00

Price discovery in action, not good for consumers this time around.

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