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Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by azan_ »

tossandthrow wrote: post #822
lucas_the_human wrote: post #820

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This is just so negative. How will it destroy your life? There are so many great and useful things it can and will do to improve humanity.

It will only do so if the benefits of the technology is made available to all and we will see alternatives to make an income. Based on the past 40 years track record it seems unlikely that we will see any form of redistribution before it is existential. That is definitely grounds for being pessimistic.

> Based on the past 40 years track record it seems unlikely that we will see any form of redistribution before it is existential.

Literally every income decile is getting richer. Don't tell me you got fooled by that fake graph showing productivity/income disconnect?

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by tarpitt »

zarzavat wrote: post #867
mlcrypto wrote: post #862

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"I genuinely don't understand why people who have to work for their living are amazed at this." Also said after seeing the printing press, automobile, calculator, etc for the first time

It's true, even if you lose your job as a programmer you can still get a job as a barista.

Can't wait for the barista and wicker basket based economy. Although personally I just make coffee at home, so I have no need for a barista with a PhD in neurosurgery to make it for me.

Plus it just takes too much time to go to starbucks, especially with all the starbucks job applications I will need to fill out if I want a chance of getting a job.

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by pinkyboy »

muldvarp wrote: post #796

Why should I be amazed at something that promises to destroy my life? I genuinely don't understand why people who have to work for their living are amazed at this. It will have a vast negative impact on your life unless you already live off of your wealth.

Even if you live off of your wealth - what happens when customers of those wealth-generating businesses don't have jobs?

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg »

deet wrote: post #446

I compared the writing style of Opus 5 vs Fable 5, and Opus 5 continues many of the "Claude-isms" of its 4.8 predecessor in a way that Fable broke away from. Opus 5 still uses "carry the argument", "worth stating plainly", ", and the trap", "The X matters more", the use of "move" We need an "annoying English" benchmark. - Fable 5 Max: https://gist.github.com/deet/3d97f854b48eac6658d642fa18bb24d... - Opus 5 Max: https…

I know this is not "as designed," but I kind of like it? Because, as long as it stays this way, it's still at least possible to tell if a human wrote something. Like, I know it's not much, but it gives you the ability to classify information as human generated or machine generated. Machine generated information may not be useless but it is different and IMO needs to be treated with a different level of skepticism. Not that you can simply trust human writing but it seems like the type of people who would publish machine writing have a different distribution of motives than those who would publish human writing.

I do think they're gonna figure out how to fix it at some point. :(

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by lbrito »

muldvarp wrote: post #796

Why should I be amazed at something that promises to destroy my life? I genuinely don't understand why people who have to work for their living are amazed at this. It will have a vast negative impact on your life unless you already live off of your wealth.

>people who have to work for their living are amazed

The answer us right there. Most people who work for a living aren't amazed, or not just amazed. Most normal people are afraid, angry, sad etc.

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by codebolt »

efdee wrote: post #891
uludag wrote: post #845

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Isn't this jaw-droppingly the wrong answer?! If the model isn't given any way to directly view the image shouldn't it just reply with one sentence asking for permission. This reads as a model hyper-trained to burn tokens. Like suppose you issue a command to Opus or Fable which doesn't make sense and requires a lot of work. It will almost certainly not push back on your silly request and go ahead and burn as many toke…

I don't see why? If they give you a math test and tell you you cannot use a calculator, should you just say "please can I use a calculator" and quit?

Preferably, it would ask for help to see the image and only engineer its own workaround if that was not an option. There could also very well be something in the prompt that would cause it not to do so. Opus 4.8 is usually good at asking for clarification for things like this when I'm using it.

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by lbrito »

slibhb wrote: post #894
muldvarp wrote: post #796

Why should I be amazed at something that promises to destroy my life? I genuinely don't understand why people who have to work for their living are amazed at this. It will have a vast negative impact on your life unless you already live off of your wealth.

If my earning ability is harmed by AI, so be it. There's more to life than how much I earn, and opposing the spread of technology to maximize my earnings is bad.

That's an insanely privileged, luxury pov. Peak hn. Some people have responsibilities, bills, dependants etc

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by lbrito »

tarpitt wrote: post #907
slibhb wrote: post #894

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If my earning ability is harmed by AI, so be it. There's more to life than how much I earn, and opposing the spread of technology to maximize my earnings is bad.

If your earning ability is eliminated due to AI and you can't survive off of welfare or savings there will not be much more to your life other than starving to death.

Welfare? There won't be welfare. Remeber that ubi was a bait and switch. The tech bro oligarchy already pivoted away from it.

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by lbrito »

nvitas wrote: post #856
muldvarp wrote: post #796

Why should I be amazed at something that promises to destroy my life? I genuinely don't understand why people who have to work for their living are amazed at this. It will have a vast negative impact on your life unless you already live off of your wealth.

it got here by training on everything we wrote down thus far. if we now start giving it all the doomsday scenarios on how it will ruin us, won't it start training on that and create said doomsday outcomes? what if instead we, collectively as a humanity, just wrote about all the positive things we could do with it and skew it in a direction that benefits the more positive side of that equation?...possible?

Isn't that a bit like asking Why don't we all be nice to each other, wouldn't the world be a better place?

Re: Claude Opus 5

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Post by lbrito »

pinkyboy wrote: post #913
muldvarp wrote: post #796

Why should I be amazed at something that promises to destroy my life? I genuinely don't understand why people who have to work for their living are amazed at this. It will have a vast negative impact on your life unless you already live off of your wealth.

Even if you live off of your wealth - what happens when customers of those wealth-generating businesses don't have jobs?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617
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