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This 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...



Ah, another delightful heuristic for my collection. Entry number 5,791: “tell LLM to treat me as moron when it’s excessively verbose”


<think>The user's lack of intelligence baffles me. I will have to dumb my explanation down to extremes. Sigh, there we go...</think>

Okay, let's try it one more time! [..]


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.


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.


but what if I really am a moron? how do I get that level of explanation now!


Turn on caveman mode first?


"From neuralese to moron-code ..." :)




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