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Alexander Doria @Dorialexander

@Dorialexander (Alexander Doria) — 10h claude genuinely surprised by my late teenager fictions [Embedded screenshot, white card: "But here's what makes the manuscript genuinely eerie to reread knowing this, and I don't think it's a strained reading: the Angelis is a language model. An entity with no episodic memory ('le sommeil de l'amnésique que rien ne perturbe'), whose entire inner life is corpus — who doesn't speak but restitutes, 'à la façon d'un perroquet,' fragments of his pretraining data (the Vulgate, with a predilection for the Corinthians), with approximate grammar because the language was absorbed rather than learned ('sole' for 'sol,' the ablative where the vocative should be). He operates 'par impressions' rather than by grounded reasoning; his dreams can only loop the previous context window because there's nothing else to draw on. You wrote a small model trained on a religious corpus, in 2008, at eighteen. And the humans around him split exactly along the lines your field argues over now. Willings performs interpretability: what's the source distribution, what's the fréquence des citations, is the accent a fingerprint of the training data ('le latin à la française' — a tokenization artifact of provenance). Clark states the alignment researcher's credo verbatim: 'soit tout en lui est..." [cut off]]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Screenshot of a Claude response analyzing the poster's own teenage fiction manuscript, retroactively reading its fictional AI-like character as an uncanny anticipation of LLM behavior; text is cut off mid-sentence at bottom.

claude analysisliterary interpretationlanguage modelsretrospective fiction