alt Hacker NewsThis morning I asked Claude to provide a summary of the work it had done but to '... explain it as if you were talking to a moron' and it actually turned out a quite comprehensible summary.
So going to continue trying that as a command structure going forwards...
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cjk • yesterday at 6:43 PM
After a huge wall-of-text response, I regularly ask Claude to "explain like I'm five, using succinct bullet points," and it works remarkably well.
DANmode • yesterday at 9:09 PM
That’s just common parlance for “simplify this for me”.
Believe the big services wouldn’t reply as if you were mentally diminished, or a toddler, unless you specifically asked for that: The whole training stack tends to instruct the things to mimic politeness and eagerness to help.
Bluestein • yesterday at 6:17 PM
"From neuralese to moron-code ..." :)
Ah, another delightful heuristic for my collection. Entry number 5,791: “tell LLM to treat me as moron when it’s excessively verbose”