One of my rules of thumb is to minimize the amount of "negative knowledge" an LLM sees, as the concept introduced just hangs around in the context way too stron

One of my rules of thumb is to minimize the amount of "negative knowledge" an LLM sees, as the concept introduced just hangs around in the context way too strong. The mnemonic I use for that is "do not think of a polar bear". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory