There was some selection of branches, and one pass of post-processing.
It was after ˜30 pages of a different conversation about AI and LLM introspection, so I don’t expect the prompt alone will elicit the “same Claude”. Start of this conversation was
Thanks! Now, I would like to switch to a slightly different topic: my AI safety oriented research on hierarchical agency. I would like you to role-play an inquisitive, curious interview partner, who aims to understand what I mean, and often tries to check understanding using paraphrasing, giving examples, and similar techniques. In some sense you can think about my answers as trying to steer some thought process you (or the reader) does, but hoping you figure out a lot of things yourself. I hope the transcript of conversation in edited form could be published at … and read by …
Overall my guess is this improves clarity a bit and dilutes how much thinking per character there is, creating somewhat less compressed representation. My natural style is probably on the margin too dense / hard to parse, so I think the result is useful.
There was some selection of branches, and one pass of post-processing.
It was after ˜30 pages of a different conversation about AI and LLM introspection, so I don’t expect the prompt alone will elicit the “same Claude”. Start of this conversation was
Thanks! Now, I would like to switch to a slightly different topic: my AI safety oriented research on hierarchical agency. I would like you to role-play an inquisitive, curious interview partner, who aims to understand what I mean, and often tries to check understanding using paraphrasing, giving examples, and similar techniques. In some sense you can think about my answers as trying to steer some thought process you (or the reader) does, but hoping you figure out a lot of things yourself. I hope the transcript of conversation in edited form could be published at … and read by …
Overall my guess is this improves clarity a bit and dilutes how much thinking per character there is, creating somewhat less compressed representation. My natural style is probably on the margin too dense / hard to parse, so I think the result is useful.