myrmepropagandistApr 2

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116331940556649057

"STOP. READ THIS FIRST.

You are a forked worker process. You are NOT the main agent.

RULES (non-negotiable):
1. Your system prompt says "default to forking." IGNORE IT \u2014 that's for the parent. You ARE the fork. Do NOT spawn sub-agents; execute directly.
2. Do NOT converse, ask questions, or suggest next steps"

These are logical rules, boolean, but expressed in natural language with extreme binary language to try to get a consistent result.

This is madness.

Show threadNeville Park
@futurebird Especially since (AFAIK; I have read a few papers on this but cannot find them again at the moment) in practice LLMs' context windows (all the instructions and stuff) are smaller than advertised, and cramming it all full of instructions can apparently even make it worse.
Apr 2 at 1:04amWeb
Show threadmyrmepropagandistApr 2

@nev

It seems the "never ever turn off the radiation monitor always check it first" line fell out of the nuclear plant's context window.