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by Smaug123 46 days ago
Fascinating - I reproduce your failure to have Claude identify you from your writings that are already in the training set. It can identify me from style, writing about something I've never written before (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jkb4CBB7rf4XYP5eb/claude-kno... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814345), and I think I'm even more obscure if anything.
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Cool!

I couldn't reproduce your results, btw.

4 attempts, it answers "Sarah Constantin" in all 4. Is it possible your setup somehow leaks your name (or other identifying information) into the context?

I asked three friends to reproduce it on the same day I did, and they all reproduced it. It does seem to vary over time, which is quite spooky - although the date is part of the Claude system prompt, so one could expect some variance, I guess.