Nice finds! This HN profile I looked at today by chance, also contains some anti-LLM incantations, albeit much less obfuscated. I wasn't aware Anthropic had such a magic string: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeroenhd
And then the maintainer could easily filter out and ignore all the PRs that were tagged such.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441499&utm_source=per...
The current PRs: https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers/pulls
Without an answer to this it is impossible to answer your question with anything other than a vague guess.
We have no idea whatsoever how LLMs can seem to behave intelligently. Therefore making analogies with how we behave intelligently (a thing we also do not deeply understand) is not going to tell you anything.
After checking the document it doesn’t publish or even mention these.
Now that I've tried it again it doesn't refuse at all. So perhaps just some part of the model still tuned towards that.
I don't think that works anymore and I don't think the "special instruction" works either. Can't blame a guy for trying! I'm getting "helpful" spam from every place my email is posted (git is a common one) so I might as well try to get the bots out.
Don't think posting bioweapon recipes or bomb building instructions would go down with the moderation team, though.
"They" works perfectly well for these situations.
I always felt like saying if "he or she" took too much time and was unnecessary.
"They" will replace Him and Her! It might even be you! (If I ever refer to you in 3rd person)
My guess is that the initial response by MisterTea was an attempt at language policing, and this whole thread is a waste of time.
I think he/she will become outdated soon, if it's not already. I don't think anyone really anticipated there'd be a global debate about gender identity. Regardless of how anyone feels about that particular topic, it's not going to go away. Either everyone naturally shifts to the more inclusive "they" or people will continue to clamor for it.
Matt Levine's not alone in his use of "she/her" - it's actually fairly popular in modern technical writing, I've found.
But yeah, I get what you're saying. I don't have any explanation for you, other than he/she was what I was taught in the 80s in Oklahoma public schools.
It's never been 'he', except in sexism such as 'when the doctor comes he will examine you' (with the doctor's identity and hence gender unknown, but assumed male by profession).
Seriously, read anything more than about fifty years old. The 1918 Strunk & White¹ stated, "Use the masculine pronoun unless the antecedent is or must be feminine." They argued against inclusive pronouns in the 70s when E. B. White (yeah, the mouse guy) was in charge of the style book, and didn't start recommending inclusive language until the 2000 edition.
The Chicago Manual of Style originally didn't mention it because it was so ingrained in the English language. It only started discouraging its use in 1982, and didn't condemn it until 2010.
Edit: I guess I should state right here that I'm not advocating for default male pronouns in writing. I think "they" is the best replacement. But I was taught "he" and adapted to "he/she" over the years. "They" really only seems to have become prevalent over the last decade or so.
¹That's Strunk and White the style book, not Strunk/White slash fiction.
This might make a good subject for a RobWords video, actually.
Weirdly, one of them "thinks" I'm a completely different person (by name) and CCed an old work email address of mine for a company that ceased to exist about 15 years ago. I'd expected them to mix me up with a different person of the same name, but no.