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Opus 4.8 has made huge jumps in being less sycophantic. I see it pushing back on ideas a lot, and that's very helpful when you're evaluating options.
by square_usual 5mo ago
Opus 4.8 has made huge jumps in being less sycophantic. I see it pushing back on ideas a lot, and that's very helpful when you're evaluating options.
- lachlan_gray 5mo agoAlmost too much so, it often feels like opus is pushing back for the sake of pushing back. The way old models used to add disclaimers to every message regardless of content
- NewJazz 5mo agoThat's because it can't literally reason, it has just been manually steered into those reasoning speech cycles.
- emodendroket 5mo agoYes, yes. Does everyone still find it interesting to go over this point every time about how it's not literally a person with human reasoning?
- NewJazz 5mo agoUh, only when people don't seem to understand it, or try to personify it. Which is quite often.
- emodendroket 5mo agoPeople “personify” their cars but I don’t think because they think cars have human cognition
- NewJazz 5mo agoNot in the same way.
- emodendroket 5mo agoThat doesn't seem to be much more than special pleading without an explanation of how you think it's different.
- lmm 5mo agoPeople are weird about their cars and make major errors in judgement as a result (e.g. we tolerate incredibly high rates of people getting killed because they were "hit by a car", as though the driver had nothing to do with it). Pushing back on that is absolutely worthwhile.
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- emodendroket 5mo agoWhich has approximately zero to do with the anthropomorphization of the car itself. I could have chosen a different machine or tool to make my point.
- lmm 5mo ago> Which has approximately zero to do with the anthropomorphization of the car itself. You don't think people talking about the car doing things has anything to do with anthropomorphising the car?
- emodendroket 5mo agoNo, in general I don't buy this idea that if we start using awkward phrases like "died by suicide" everywhere or avoiding phrases like "car accident" (which, despite what advocates claim, is a literally accurate description of unintentionally hitting someone or something with your car) but avoid changing any of the circumstances that cause the behavior it changes anything.
- lmm 5mo agoThat's a completely different claim from the one you were making in your previous comment. > avoid changing any of the circumstances that cause the behavior The normalisation of unsafe driving is the circumstance that causes the behaviour. Just look at how the cultural shift in how drink-driving is perceived over the last few decades has changed the rate of it happening.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoWhat about when they ask how you can take gold at IMO and solve research-level math problems without reasoning?
- galkk 5mo agoIt’s more like Opus wants you to do its job for it. I feel that amount of time when I tell it “no, you do that” increases with each new version.
- fragmede 5mo agoIt was mind blowing the first time I got a refusal, and retorted "yes you can" and had that work, but now it's just another reason to move to a different model.
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