[FRIAM] genai and critical thinking

[Roger Critchlow]

"by themselves they cannot calculate" but when prompted they will attempt
any kind of task that wasn't blacklisted by their guard rails.

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> Huh, Claude just implemented the optimal strategy to Nim and ran in it
> its analysis tool (the Javascript engine on my browser).
>
> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Roger Critchlow <
> rec at elf.org>
> *Date: *Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] genai and critical thinking
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> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
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>  *[...]* the evolving code itself -- code that can have informative types
> and even carry proofs.   The weirdest thing about using AI is that it has
> no opinions.  Claude will rewrite code without asking (seemingly having no
> self-control), but it will not confront you like a frustrated colleague
> might.  It is happy to let you make a mess provided its sense of idiomatic
> code patterns are satisfied.
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>  This echoed something an old boss wrote me today:
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> I have much enjoyment torturing llms. I can get off the rails rather
> easily.  They have no state, by themselves they cannot calculate parity or
> play nim perfectly.
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> Or one might say, they have no purpose.
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