A gem Opus 5 gifted to me today: "A devastating pair of findings, and the first is beautiful in a way worth naming: the anti-vacuity floor is what blinds the gate to a vacuous case."
A gem Opus 5 gifted to me today: "A devastating pair of findings, and the first is beautiful in a way worth naming: the anti-vacuity floor is what blinds the gate to a vacuous case."
Oh yes, Claude seems to be loving the word vacuous recently. My test bed side project is full of vacuous this and that now.
I even try and get it to define what it classifies as vacuous and it can’t do so without getting stuck in some kind of trap. It’s like a word with some kind of huge gravity for it.
Had same experience. I had to look up the usage as it just seemed so out of place.
Like how opus 4.7 or so started talking about the 'seam' between different things.
You're right that I shouldn't have used the forbidden words; that's entirely on me. What I also did was identify the plausible-gate issues. Want me to tackle them next?
Two caveats, one of which matters:
You'll never guess which one...
I always have to read these kind of Claude sentences (yours is a great example) two or three times to really understand what they're trying to say, which almost never happens when I read human writing. Sometimes I'm not certain if it's because the AI's writing is super dense with information - or whether it's the opposite and the small core of information is surrounded by a surplus of junk.
Certainly a human would write something much clearer than yours. Maybe: "Two good findings here. #1: There's already a min value on the gate and anything lower doesn't pass through, so we don't need special handling for the zero case."
This thread seems like the wort of folk who might get a laugh at https://clanker-quotes.com/
I get these kind of superfluous sentences all the time; drives me nuts.
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