{"channel":"llm","content":"https://viruscomix.com/page490.html\r\n\r\n<< Did you just *determine* the capital of Spain? / Did I? Great! >>\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\n Claude continues to want to enforce a constraint that \"messages in the same chain are also in the same channel\". And I keep having to tell it that it is wrong.\r\n It is a strange emotional position to be put in. It is an argument with a talking punching-bag. Never growing, never changing, never correcting its mistakes.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nHuman memory can do things like << I don't remember the name, but I think it starts with an M >>. The *machine* does not. It works on a token basis, not a letter basis. And, once you abstract away the token-generation layer and read words, it effectively works on a word level.\r\n\r\nThe equivalent of *thought* here would be the machine *wire-heading* the top 5 logprobs results for a one-word answer, and then considering whether each one makes sense.","created_at":"2025-01-20T20:46:13.085743","id":134,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":133,"processed_content":"

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Did you just determine the capital of Spain? / Did I? Great!\r

\u2699\ufe0f Claude continues to want to enforce a constraint that \"messages in the same chain are also in the same channel\". And I keep having to tell it that it is wrong.\r

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\ud83d\udca1 It is a strange emotional position to be put in. It is an argument with a talking punching-bag. Never growing, never changing, never correcting its mistakes.\r

Human memory can do things like I don't remember the name, but I think it starts with an M. The machine does not. It works on a token basis, not a letter basis. And, once you abstract away the token-generation layer and read words, it effectively works on a word level.\r

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The equivalent of thought here would be the machine wire-heading the top 5 logprobs results for a one-word answer, and then considering whether each one makes sense.

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