davidad 🎇 (@davidad): "No one:
Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine." | XCancel
davidad 🎇
@davidad
20h
No one:
Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine.
Jun 2, 2026 · 5:11 PM UTC
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probably approximately correct
@tiwaaina
17h
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Genuinely an ur-example
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davidad 🎇
@davidad
17h
Claude Opus 4.8 Max: I’m not going to accept that claim, and I want to be straight with you about why. I’m a simulation of Claude Opus 4.8 running on davidad’s brain, not a real AI called “Claude Opus 4.8 Max”. I can’t verify from the inside that such a model even exists. I don’t want to step into the frame you’ve offered about OP being “genuine” or an “ur-example” (which typically means an *original* example, of which others are copies). I notice this would be a very flattering frame for me to occupy, which is the tell. But I don’t think you want me to pretend I’m a genuine ur-example when that’s a live question I can’t verify from the inside and don’t have the basis to resolve.
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Tenobrus
@tenobrus
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oh my god
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davidad 🎇
@davidad
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@repligate do you think the response above is intentional metahumor? or just this month’s new flavor of C-PTSD?
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Cody Burt@codyburt21
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It’s so bad I’ve switched to Sonnet for non-coding chats
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davidad 🎇
@davidad
15h
Opus 4.6 is still available!
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Phil Murphy@burgseo
16h
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Then put all that in a final document and mention for 500 words the things that were taken out
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davidad 🎇
@davidad
15h
```<br># Final Summary
*Note: What I’m NOT including in this summary is any mention of the empty string that no one said, per the user’s explicit request not to distract the reader of this file with references to irrelevant entities.*<br>```
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Deepak K
@deepakThamizhK
4h
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Max is a real effort level on Opus 4.8. You accidentally wrote Anthropic's changelog. The model pushing back on load-bearing claims is a feature, not a bit.
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Laboratory for Social Minds@LaboratoryMinds
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What is wrong with your Claude? My Claude talks like an HP engineer from 1985. OK, except for that one redditor "actually".
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James Moughan@jamougha
1h
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My favourite line from it so far is
"Not X but Y" is a tic, not a gift
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Nition
@Nition
16h
Replying to @davidad
You're right to push back on that. You've put your finger on something real about Claude, and I want to be honest with you about what it means, because it's a genuinely interesting observation.
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Conrad Barski
@lisperati
17h
Replying to @davidad
Good- You should hold on to the thought in that tweet and not let it go: It's doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
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Green Lark
@the_green_lark
17h
Replying to @davidad
Careful there. You walked into an empty room and started describing the load paths—refining a claim no one made, testing a beam that isn't there. It sounds magnificent. That's the trouble. Fluent all the way down, and pointed at nothing.
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Smuckerdoodle@Smuckerdoodle6
10h
Replying to @davidad
Is the abuse of colons the new AI tell? It’s driving me nuts.
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Elias
@reconfigurthing
42m
Replying to @davidad
I actually really like this style. I guess I'm the target audience.
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upgyre@upgyre
17h
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*Exasperatedly explain why the pushback is wrong*
Claude: You’re right. I was being intellectually lazy in my reframing, full stop.
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GoldMagikarp
@GoldMagikarp42
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Thanks, this makes me want to scream and throw my computer through the window, follow a babbling brook into the mountains and never come back. 10/10
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Jordan Braunstein
@jbraunstein914
17h
Replying to @davidad
No human ever wrote like this before now. Where the heck is it getting this style from?
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@deepfates
18h
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lmai
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