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Why the same LLM gives different answers in different environments

https://johndwade.substack.com/p/the-environment-rewrites-the-question
2•edgecased•1h ago

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edgecased•1h ago
Wrote this after trying to figure out why two environments running the same model gave structurally different answers to the same question. The technical brief at the Zenodo DOI has the four-stage methodological arc, the falsification protocol, and the citation-to-claim map.

The piece is the narrative; the brief is the methodology. Both are written so the claim can be killed cleanly if it's wrong.

Terr_•1h ago
Is this meant to be a communication from some actual human to a different actual human that might be on HN, or is it part of some... LLM slop-ouroboros?

It gives me a very similar feeling to the people who write about how they've given their LLM a soul through philosophy and some magic words... Except it probably involves "teaching" the system to "be logical", and then prompting the flawed tool to analyze itself and make a writeup.

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