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by kator 80 days ago
Fascinating, I thought I was losing my mind. Claude CLI has been telling me I should go to bed, or that it's late, let's call it here, etc, and then I look at the stop-phrase-guard.sh [1] and I'm seeing quite a few of these. I thought it was because I accidentally allowed Claude to know my deadline, and it started spitting out all sorts of things like "we only have N days left, let's put this aside for now," etc.

Just this morning I typed:

    STOP WORRYING ABOUT THE DEADLINE THAT IS MY JOB
[1] https://gist.github.com/benvanik/ee00bd1b6c9154d6545c63e06a3...
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I just saw it this weekend; "It is quite late and we have accomplished a lot. Get some rest and we can pick it up later". Not bad advice but then not it's place. Also trying to steer me away from a tough issue towards a low hanging fruit.
I got a similar response. It looked wrong on several levels. So I asked it: if it knew the current time, and if it hard learnt when I retire.

It claimed it didn't know either.

I got the same. At 2pm on a Thursday!
I wonder if its being trained on the human replies to the model, I sometimes write stuff like that back to Claude after I want to finish for the day myself.
My speculation on this has been that it's potentially a factor against ai psychosis, as psychosis risk (of any psychosis) is significantly elevated with lack of sleep. If you read case studies of ai psychosis, many of them also involve people staying up way too long right before they fall on a bad path.