Obscure Curiosities

Tag: LLM

  • Richard Dawkins’ Claude Delusion?

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    (from my May 3rd, 2026 notes) Unfortunately, Richard Dawkins put out a book called The Claude Delusion and it’s being panned.  The argument Dawkins makes in the book: “So my own position is: ‘If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?’” His version of Claude…

  • What I’m Watching – A LLM Prompt For… Delusion Patterns in 4B Local LLMs

    In this video, RJ of The Flourishing YouTube Channel investigates how local large language models with four billion parameters or fewer [that is, local LLMs like Ollama] handle delusional patterns and hallucinations. He utilizes a series of “oblique strategies” to generate complex, philosophical follow-up questions that push these smaller models to their technical and creative…

  • Why AI’s Flaws Are Just Our Own Reflections

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    “Bygones are forever bygones,” William Stanley Jevons once wrote. But human minds are not blank ledgers wiped clean at each decision. We’re accumulators — of sensations, biases, and half-baked rules of thumb — and we act on them whether or not they’re still relevant. In 1996, Louis Lévy-Garboua and Claude Montmarquette published a paper titled…