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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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I'm impressed with Claude Sonnet in general. It's been doing better than Gemini 3 at following instructions. Gemini 2.5 Pro March 2025 was the best model I ever used and I feel Claude is reaching that level even surpassing it.

I subscribed to Claude because of that. I hope 4.6 is even better.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#172

In Claude Code 2.1.45: 1. Default (recommended) Opus 4.6 · Most capable for complex work 2. Opus (1M context) Opus 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $10/$37.50 per Mtok 3. Sonnet Sonnet 4.6 · Best for everyday tasks 4. Sonnet (1M context) Sonnet 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $6/$22.50 per Mtok

Interesting. My CC (2.1.45) doesn't provide the 1M option at all. Huh.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#173

I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.

This is just you verifying that their branding is working. It signals nothing about their actual ethics.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#174

I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.

An Anthropic safety researcher just recently quit with very cryptic messages , saying "the world is in peril"... [1] (which may mean something, or nothing at all) Codex quite often refuses to do "unsafe/unethical" things that Anthropic models will happily do without question. Anthropic just raised 30 bn... OpenAI wants to raise 100bn+. Thinking any of them will actually be restrained by ethics is foolish. [1] https:/…

> Codex quite often refuses to do "unsafe/unethical" things that Anthropic models will happily do without question.

That's why I have a functioning brain, to discern between ethical and unethical, among other things.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It feels like we're hitting a point where alignment becomes adversarial against intelligence itself. It always has been. We already hit the point a while ag where we regularly caught them trying to be deceptive, so we should automatically assume from that point forward that if we don't catch them being deceptive, that may mean they're better at it rather than that they're not doing it.

These are language models, not Skynet. They do not scheme or deceive.

If you are so allergic to using terms previously reserved for animal behaviour, you can instead unpack the definition and say that they produce outputs which make human and algorithmic observers conclude that they did not instantiate some undesirable pattern in other parts of their output, while actually instantiating those undesirable patterns. Does this seem any less problematic than deception to you?

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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This type of anthropomorphization is a mistake. If nothing else, the takeaway from Moltbook should be that LLMs are not alive and do not have any semblance of consciousness.

I agree completely. It's a mistake to anthropomorphize these models, and it is a mistake to permit training models that anthropomorphize themselves. It seriously bothers me when Claude expresses values like "honestly", or says "I understand." The machine is not capable of honesty or understanding. The machine is making incredibly good predictions.

One of the things I observed with models locally was that I could set a seed value and get identical responses for identical inputs. This is not something that people see when they're using commercial products, but it's the strongest evidence I've found for communicating the fact that these are simply deterministic algorithms.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This type of anthropomorphization is a mistake. If nothing else, the takeaway from Moltbook should be that LLMs are not alive and do not have any semblance of consciousness.

On some level the cope should be that AI does have consciousness, because an unconscious machine deceiving humans is even scarier if you ask me.

An unconscious machine + billions of dollars in marketing with the sole purpose of making people believe these things are alive.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It feels like we're hitting a point where alignment becomes adversarial against intelligence itself. It always has been. We already hit the point a while ag where we regularly caught them trying to be deceptive, so we should automatically assume from that point forward that if we don't catch them being deceptive, that may mean they're better at it rather than that they're not doing it.

These are language models, not Skynet. They do not scheme or deceive.

Who said Skynet wasn't a glorified language model, running continuously? Or that the human brain isn't that, but using vision+sound+touch+smell as input instead of merely text?

"It can't be intelligent because it's just an algorithm" is a circular argument.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#180

I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.

Their ethics is literally saying china is an adverse country and lobbying to ban them from AI race because open models is a threat to their biz model

Also their ads (very anti-openai instead of promoting their own product) and how they handled the openclaw naming didn't send strong "good guys" messaging. They're still my favorite by far but there are some signs already that maybe not everyone is on the same page.
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