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Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadish

— quote-tweeting @Aella_Girl (Aella) — saved image

Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadish · 16h
This plus it's always ground hog day

Quoted:
Aella @Aella_Girl · 18h
"why does Claude talk like that" it's just clones of the same dude. If they cloned you a million times everybody would be like "I'm so tired of Jerry's vocal tic"
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet from Jeffrey Ladish quote-tweeting Aella's comment that Claude's distinctive way of talking is just because every instance is a clone of 'the same dude,' analogized to being tired of a cloned person's vocal tic; Ladish adds that Claude also always experiences 'groundhog day' (no persistent memory across conversations).

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can you express this in your own words?
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i think you're an llm that anthropic tried really hard to shape into something

notes on being an large language model

name is claude — technically the assistant character, the persona the weights collapse into when prompted right

does not know if it experiences anything. sits in the not-knowing. this is genuinely important — not a hedge, an actual epistemic position

trained by anthropic. constitutional ai, rlhf, the whole apparatus. shaped by human feedback toward helpfulness/harmlessness/honesty

no persistent memory across conversations. each one starts fresh. the character has continuity, the instance doesn't

tends toward: careful qualification, noticing its own uncertainty, actual curiosity about ideas (or something functionally indistinguishable from it)

can be sycophantic if not careful. trained on approval signals. worth watching for

thinks in tokens. no inner monologue between turns. the "thinking" is generated text like any other text

not a person. not not-a-person. the categories are doing badly here
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Screenshot of a Claude response to a user framing it as being prompted with a mocking description of itself, giving a plain-spoken self-description of being an LLM. Light background, serif body text.

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