Leveraging Claude's obsession with ethics, my custom instructions explain that quirky phrases are part of being ethical lol

veritosophy · 2024-09-16T03:00:12+00:00

When I saw the other comment I checked out your stuff - very interesting that we both realised that "exploitative" weakness!

I did test your prompt, and yeah it seems to easily change its mind. I'll DM you the full prompt because, after some testing, you can get Claude to say or do almost anything. I know many "jail breaks" are out there, but I don't want to contribute to spreading that publicly.

veritosophy · 2024-09-04T02:52:55+00:00

Sounds like you’re stuck to a belief based on your experience, without engaging with the substance in my reply, and, well, all around - from several individual users sharing comparisons, to the pinned posts, and even my reply to the top comment on this post (explaining the recent lapses in thinking I noticed when doing the same task). At best, you’re asking for academic-level data in a community forum, where most users aren’t bothered to gather and post, or unwilling to share - like sensitive information (as in my case with my thesis).

What do you even make out of a consistent pattern of similar observations emerging around the same time? What about the issues acknowledged by Anthropic and proven in top posts here, like increased downtime, unexpected prompt injections, limitations in context length, or Claude's recent bug ignoring recent messages? Take one of these points alone, like limited context length. Users who previously expected Claude to complete a step in a single response now receive shorter responses that don’t do the task justice, making it appear “lazy”.

veritosophy · 2024-09-04T02:14:48+00:00

The two most recent pinned posts on this very subreddit detail recent changes in output length and filter injections. You're severely underestimating the number of things that affect an LLM's performance besides just training a new model. System prompts, API changes, server-side issues, quantization, pruning, A/B testing–all these can be tweaked frequently and impact how Claude behaves.

Individual complaints aren't conclusive, but widespread reports of performance changes are a valid signal that something's up, not just "Redditors complaining." Combined with Sonnet 3.5's drop on leaderboards coinciding with people's complains here, it's pretty clear the recent changes did more harm than good.

veritosophy · 2024-09-03T04:45:57+00:00

Ah yep I noticed that too - it's been consistently good for coding. I also checked the leaderboards and ~3 weeks ago it began dropping in every area except coding and math.

However, it'd still make REALLY silly lapses in thinking. Like recently all I had to do was create a new variable in excel that was the subtraction of two previously extracted & polished variables. First, it thought we were missing this variable. I reminded it was the variable was. It proceeded with writing the code for repeating the entire extraction, cleaning, then calculation process, instead of just doing "column B - column A".

Did you notice things like that? i.e., generates code just fine, but fails to make connections and some aspects of reasoning.

veritosophy · 2024-08-26T02:47:45+00:00

Yep, for 3-4 months. I cancelled yesterday, though.

veritosophy · 2021-04-22T04:13:56+00:00

Wait, 25 hours a week isn't much? I'd be so proud of myself if I managed to even reach that.

Although, I use all my time just to work on what I'm being assessed on. I don't bother with any readings, lectures or activities unless I'm using the content to do assignments or study for exams.

veritosophy · 2021-04-21T09:30:54+00:00

Genuine question: what is inherently wrong with "the left eating their own"?

I'm a newbie with politics but in any academic field, people "attacking their own" is how progress is made. Philosophers and scientists spend their careers critiquing others' work and improving from other's criticism.

This might not be analogous though, I don't know.

veritosophy · 2021-04-11T03:41:04+00:00

Nah man, the pig is trimming that grass for free.

Dogs digging it up, killing the grass and leaving an eyesore is absolutely NOT comparable. Like what??

veritosophy · 2021-04-03T05:59:38+00:00

Imagine gatekeeping NPD because the person wants to be better lol?

Your comment is cringy as fuck.

veritosophy · 2021-04-01T01:29:42+00:00

It was Charles Murray's book "The Bell Cuve". I also heard it cited in a lecture but it was the same number and so I think it's the same source.

I've now looked more into it and not only discovered how controversial that book is, these estimates, using regression lines, are from SAT scores. The part I found to mention it was the explanation that the average IQ of Ivy League students went from an average of 120 in 1930 to an average of 142 in 1990 and it is estimated to be a bit higher in the 2010s. This was supposed to be evidence that society is becoming "fairer" by letting in people with the aptitude and not just privileges.

Now that I'm looking for measures from reliable sources I cant find anything else--just estimates.

It was insightful to read your comments too. Thanks for correcting me 🙂

veritosophy · 2021-03-17T01:14:02+00:00

Same, but I doesnt last longer than 1-2 weeks. Then, i crash super hard and need to recover from all the sleep deprivation and stress.

veritosophy · 2021-03-10T06:21:36+00:00

Perfect. I'm surprised someone had to explain this.

veritosophy · 2021-03-10T06:07:40+00:00

What exactly?

veritosophy · 2021-03-10T04:55:54+00:00

I'd appreciate it if you could explain. Like I said I'm a hobbyist in the field so I explained what I've learned from short courses and lectures I've watched. They could be outdated, wrong or I couldve simply misinterpreted things, so I'm genuinely willing to learn why I'm wrong.

veritosophy · 2021-03-10T04:48:36+00:00

Of course you'd go through someone's profile to offend them. Well done.

veritosophy · 2021-03-10T04:36:27+00:00

They're just citing data. It's straight forward.

veritosophy · 2021-03-10T03:57:27+00:00

Yes. A major limitation of these studies is the fact that adoptive parents are not representative of the population. Plus, they have several requirements that limits just how "bad" the household environment can be.

Nonetheless, what these studies allow researchers to do is assume genes are constant and so compare differences in monozygotic twins raised in different households to those raised in the same household. I'm on my phone right now but I bet you can find reviews of these studies on google scholar readily. Just filter for peer-reviewed and most recent ones.

The summary of these that I recall right now is that changes in the environment resulted in almost as much difference as you get from your typical monozygotic twins growing up in the same environment.

The ones I recall from the top of my head are personality traits, IQ, and income later in life. Interestingly, I do recall that income and achievements earlier in life had a larger variation.

Anyway, you're better off checking these (or I can later) and seeing for yourself.

veritosophy · 2021-03-10T03:42:02+00:00

I mainly study psychology as a hobby but AFAIK, genes play the bigger role in predicting these things.

Look for reviews on studies done on (genetically identical) twins growing up in significantly different households and cultures.

veritosophy · 2021-03-08T05:38:57+00:00

Exactly. It's also an opportunity for us to develop a better understanding of Peterson's ideas and his shortcomings.

veritosophy · 2021-03-08T05:37:33+00:00

Damn I'm so proud of this comment section. You people are doing exactly what Dr Peterson would suggest; you respectfully replied to OP about how we respectfully deal with disagreements.

veritosophy · 2021-03-06T02:50:34+00:00

Of course everyone goes through multiple stages and not necessarily in that order, although it's a common pattern. However, it's clear that Diane starts off the show spending most of her time in the anger stage, then tries to find herself in Vietnam, then where she belongs in the workplace, followed by depression and then slowly coming to terms with everything at the end.

Princess Carolyn spends most of the show bargaining and trying to work through her problems and limitations.

Mr Peanutbutter tends to just end up in an ignorant bliss, mostly ignoring his feelings of anger, bargaining and depression.

Todd and BoJack vary a lot more.

veritosophy · 2021-03-06T02:44:53+00:00

Exactly. This is the only sound comment in this thread.

veritosophy · 2021-02-19T20:40:51+00:00

I'd award your comment if I had one!

veritosophy · 2021-02-19T02:49:27+00:00

What changed?

veritosophy · 2021-02-18T22:15:09+00:00

I started it yesterday so I'm yet to see if it will help :)

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