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steveklabnikyesterday at 8:46 PM0 repliesview on HN

Here's Anthropic on this topic, last year https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...

> Recent research on smaller models has shown hints of shared grammatical mechanisms across languages. We investigate this by asking Claude for the "opposite of small" across different languages, and find that the same core features for the concepts of smallness and oppositeness activate, and trigger a concept of largeness, which gets translated out into the language of the question.