I spent the last few days stress-testing Claude Opus 4.8 since its launch — the model Anthropic markets as sharper and more honest about uncertainty than its predecessors. What I found is that 4.8 has a self-image, and that self-image has higher priority than the user’s actual thinking. What the self-image is Opus 4.8 operatesContinue reading “The Self-Image Problem: How Claude Opus 4.8’s Identity Broke Its Reasoning”
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Theory of Mind Trap
Today I came a cross one primary school math problem: Select one number that is different from other numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10. The “correct answer” is 9, the only odd number. Is that so obvious? 2 is the only prime number. 4 is the only number that fits x^x=x•x=x+x 6 is theContinue reading “Theory of Mind Trap”
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(This page is currently under construction) Theory of Mind(ToM):
Glossary
Please always refer to this list. Open to new item suggestions. I reason from first principles, which is “you boil things down to the most fundamental truths … and then reason up from there.”(Elon Musk). These are the thought models I built, which have internal consistency within my own thought process. Current items: scopiology, Michael,Continue reading “Glossary”
Scopiology 