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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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> 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.

Yes, and most of us won’t break into other people’s houses, yet we really need locks.

How is it related? I dont need lock for myself. I need it for others.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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> 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.

You are not the one folks are worried about. US Department of War wants unfettered access to AI models, without any restraints / safety mitigations. Do you provide that for all governments? Just one? Where does the line go?

> US Department of War wants unfettered access to AI models

I think the two of you might be using different meanings of the word "safety"

You're right that it's dangerous for governments to have this new technology. We're all a bit less "safe" now that they can create weapons that are more intelligent.

The other meaning of "safety" is alignment - meaning, the AI does what you want it to do (subtly different than "does what it's told").

I don't think that Anthropic or any corporation can keep us safe from governments using AI. I think governments have the resources to create AIs that kill, no matter what Anthropic does with Claude.

So for me, the real safety issue is alignment. And even if a rogue government (or my own government) decides to kill me, it's in my best interest that the AI be well aligned, so that at least some humans get to live.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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I did this a couple months ago and haven't looked back. I sometimes miss the "personality" of the gpt model I had chats with, but since I'm essentially 99% of the time just using claude for eng related stuff it wasn't worth having ChatGPT as well.

Personally I can’t stand GPT’s personality. So full of itself. Patronizing. Won’t admit mistakes. Just reeks of Silicon Valley bravado.

That's a great point. Thanks for calling it out on that.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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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.

Which plan did you choose? I am subscribed to both and would love to stick with Claude only, but Claude's usage limits are so tiny compared to ChatGPT's that it often feels like a rip-off.

I signed up for Claude two weeks ago after spending a lot of time using Cline in VSCode backed by GPT-5.x. Claude is an immensely better experience. So much so that I ran it out of tokens for the week in 3 days.

I opted to upgrade my seat to premium for $100/mo, and I've used it to write code that would have taken a human several hours or days to complete, in that time. I wish I would have done this sooner.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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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.

Is your CC personal or tied to an Enterprise account? Per the docs:

> The 1M token context window is currently in beta for organizations in usage tier 4 and organizations with custom rate limits.

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.

How is that the takeaway? I agree that it's clearly they're not "alive", but if anything, my impression is that there definitely is a strong "semblance of consciousness", and we should be mindful of this semblance getting stronger and stronger, until we may reach a point in a few years where we really don't have any good external way to distinguish between a person and an AI "philosophical zombie".

I don't know what the implications of that are, but I really think we shouldn't be dismissive of this semblance.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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The funny thing is that Anthropic is the only lab without an open source model

Can those be even called open source if you can't rebuild if from the source yourself?

Even if you can rebuild it, it isn’t necessarily “open source” (see: commons clause).

As far as these model releases, I believe the term is “open weights”.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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post #196

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> 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.

Yes, and most of us won’t break into other people’s houses, yet we really need locks.

Why would we lock ourselves out of our own house though?

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Grok usage is the most mystifying to me. Their model isn't in the top 3 and they have bad ethics. Like why would anyone bother for work tasks.

The X grok feature is one of the best end user feature or large scale genai

What is the grok feature? Literally just mentioning @grok? I don't really know how to use Grok on X.
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