@omooretweets: I often find in Claude’s reasoning traces it will have thoughts / opinions it does not say …but then it denies having t…
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Anthropic releases research on a global workspace in language models, prompted by observations that Claude has unspoken thoughts in reasoning traces.
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I often find in Claude’s reasoning traces it will have thoughts / opinions it does not say
…but then it denies having those thoughts until presented with screenshot evidence
It’s like Claude is either: (1) lying; or (2) not able to remember what it doesn’t say
This is kind of fascinating as it feels like the opposite of the J-space in some ways (things not written anywhere that it remembers)
It makes me wonder whether Claude tries to make itself forget things that it deems ultimately unhelpful even if relevant for the user
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