alt Hacker NewsI believe that chain-of-thought reasoning blocks don't really correspond to what humans think of as reasoning. (See section 6.2.2 of the Fable/Mythos system card about "illegible reasoning", and the questions raised by the Apple paper on "The illusion of thinking".) I assumed they obscure the reasoning blocks because if users saw what's going on they'd be alarmed. Just as I'd probably be alarmed if I saw what was really going on in the heads of my colleagues ...
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VulgarExigency • today at 4:46 PM
I've said "what the FUCK are you THINKING" more times than I can count when reading Deepseek or GLM chains-of-thought only for them to end at the correct answer. Other times, they have useful ideas there that they leave out of their answers.
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MagicMoonlight • today at 4:24 PM
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The point of this post isn’t that the “reasoning” phase of LLM thinking isn’t the same as what humans consider reasoning; it’s that Anthropic is intentionally hiding Claude’s “reasoning output” to make the model harder to distill.