Charles Foster @CFGeek
Charles Foster @CFGeek
This is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This message is a warning about danger.
[Meme image, imgflip.com: a "no" circle-slash symbol overlaid on the text "Can LLMs Learn Their Own Reasoning Language?" set against a photo of the classic nuclear semiotics "WIPP warning" sign text below it:
"THESE ARE NOT MADE
THEY SHOULD NEVER BE MADE
WE WILL NOT MAKE THEM
WE WILL NOT HELP MAKE THEM"
— photographed in what appears to be a toy/craft store shelf with wooden mannequin heads/hands visible below]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A meme repurposing the famous "Human Interference Task Force" / WIPP nuclear waste warning marker language (designed to warn future civilizations 10,000 years hence) to warn against LLMs developing their own non-human-interpretable reasoning language — a joke that doubles as a serious point about interpretability and neuralese/uninterpretable chain-of-thought risk. Directly relevant to AI safety/interpretability threads (CoT monitoring, chain-of-thought faithfulness) tracked elsewhere in this batch.
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