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by BAM-DevCrew 96 days ago
As a divergent thinker with extensive hard constraints in claude.mds and on-boarding commands that force claude to internalize my constraints, that you or some other employee of Anthropic could randomly select me for testing is horrifying. Each unexpected behavior and my corresponding reaction to it can wipe me out, my brain out, completely for hours, days, even weeks. I have in the last year spend tens (estimating around 400) of hours establishing and reestablishing a system to protect myself from psychological harm and financial harm. It is twisted that you Anthropic employees do not consider the impact your work has on divergent thinking Claude users, let alone that real work is severly impacted by your work. Totally irresponsible. Offensively so.
2 comments

What?

Even without Anthropic's experimentation, anything in the context is completely probabilistic.

You cannot rely on it no matter how/how much you prompt the model

And how does one address the fragility of probabilities? Engineering. Study weaknesses and harden them. Control the probabilities. It is NOT "completely" probabilistic.
I can't tell whether something is satire anymore.