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pfortuny commented on Training LLMs for honesty via confessions arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093... · Posted by u/arabello
Well algorithms don't think. That's what LLM's are.
Your digital thermometer doesn't think either.
I was asking for a technical argument against that spurious use of the term.
pfortuny commented on Training LLMs for honesty via confessions arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093... · Posted by u/arabello
https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...
> Claude, on occasion, will give a plausible-sounding argument designed to agree with the user rather than to follow logical steps. We show this by asking it for help on a hard math problem while giving it an incorrect hint. We are able to “catch it in the act” as it makes up its fake reasoning, providing a proof of concept that our tools can be useful for flagging concerning mechanisms in models...
> Claude seems to be unaware of the sophisticated "mental math" strategies that it learned during training. If you ask how it figured out that 36+59 is 95, it describes the standard algorithm involving carrying the 1. This may reflect the fact that the model learns to explain math by simulating explanations written by people, but that it has to learn to do math "in its head" directly, without any such hints, and develops its own internal strategies to do so.
Thank you.
pfortuny commented on Training LLMs for honesty via confessions arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093... · Posted by u/arabello
I think this article once again assumes LLMs works like humans - Anthropic showed that LLMs don't understand their own thought processes, and measuring neural net activations does not correspond to what they say about how they arrived at the conclusion.
I don't think this magically grants them this ability, they'll be just more convincing at faking honesty.
Honest question:
> Anthropic showed that LLMs don't understand their own thought processes
Where can I find this? I am really interested in that. Thanks.
pfortuny commented on Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e eamonnsullivan.co.uk/post... · Posted by u/eamonnsullivan
You are repeating the very same history and excuses (from the IT Dpt.) I lived and heard. Davmail works for me on Linux and MacOS even from outside the intranet. Give it a try and I would be happy to help, I have a gmail account with my nick.
Edit: night time here now, sorry if I cannot help right away.
pfortuny commented on Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e eamonnsullivan.co.uk/post... · Posted by u/eamonnsullivan
I actually haven’t tried DavMail (but have heard about it), so if it manages to get around this sort of shenanigans I’ll happily give that a shot.
In my previous org I could also use offlineimap and msmtp to connect to their Microsoft mail server via standard protocols. But in this org I’ve so far tried the built-in Exchange support in Thunderbird as well as in Evolution Data Server based exchange clients (Evolution and KMail). All of them manage to connect to the server, kinda, but then I get an error message saying basically that my mail client is not approved and I’ll have to contact my admin to use it.
EDIT: I might add that the IT deliberately blocked non-Outlook mail clients a year ago or so, other Linux users told me that it worked fine before that. It’s supposedly a crackdown on people using shady third-party apps that they are concerned might exfiltrate data, but somehow they don’t allow exceptions even for reputable clients like Thunderbird.
You are repeating the very same history and excuses (from the IT Dpt.) I lived and heard. Davmail works for me on Linux and MacOS even from outside the intranet. Give it a try and I would be happy to help, I have a gmail account with my nick.
pfortuny commented on Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e eamonnsullivan.co.uk/post... · Posted by u/eamonnsullivan
> Can’t really have my inbox be one hour behind real time.
Why not? Does your job mandate that you watch your inbox constantly, and respond immediately to all messages? How do you get anything else done?
My mail gets updated every 3mins... ?
pfortuny commented on Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e eamonnsullivan.co.uk/post... · Posted by u/eamonnsullivan
My organization also explicitly blocks access from other clients than Microsoft Outlook, even if the credentials are correct and the protocol is supported. They also refused providing an exception, citing that I can just use the web interface via Microsoft Edge on Linux. (Which I prefer not to do for many reasons, e.g. backing up my emails locally, working offline, and authoring using native tools.)
Currently, only Thunderbird with the proprietary "OWL" extension somehow manages to connect despite the block. My understanding is that they somehow abuse the web interface to do so, instead of actually going through the proper protocols, but not sure.
If someone has another way to access Exchange servers that intentionally blocks non-Outlook clients I’d love to hear about it.
I am surprised as davmail with the Exchange protocol has worked for me since I set it up. They made offlineimap unusable but davmail works (it even has a small web client for the login when more than a month has passed). ??
Edit: they (my Uni) made offlineimap unusable, but it works with davmail.
pfortuny commented on Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e eamonnsullivan.co.uk/post... · Posted by u/eamonnsullivan
I'm also using Mu4e for personal email but stymied by Exchange auth for work email. I've been looking into using DavMail as an Exchange gateway, does anyone have experience with this?
https://davmail.sourceforge.net/images/davmailArchitecture.p...
I have been usong mu4e with davmail in Exchange mode for my Uni mail. It was a pain to discover how to do it but the FAQ has been updated since and it works like a charm. Deop me a mail at gmail if you wish.