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“My unsupervised elicitation challenge” by DanielFilan

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Note: you are ineligible to complete this challenge if you’ve studied Ancient or Modern Greek, or if you natively speak Modern Greek, or if for other reasons you know what mistakes I’m claiming Opus 4.6 makes. If you’re ineligible, please don’t help other people complete the challenge. I have recently started using Claude Opus 4.6 to start studying Ancient Greek. Specifically, I initially used it to grade problem sets at the end of the textbook I’ve been using, but then I got worried about it being sycophantic towards my answers, so started having it just write out the answers itself. I recently gave it this prompt, from the end of Chapter 3 of my textbook: Can you write out the answers to this Ancient Greek fill-in-the-blanks exercise so that I can check my answers against yours? The exercise is to fill the blanks, marked as ___ with the words under “Λέξεις”. Α ___ ἐστίν. Α καὶ Β ___ εἰσιν. Α, Β, καὶ Γ ___ Ἑλληνικὰ γράμματά εἰσιν. Καὶ Π ___ γράμμα ἐστίν, οὐ Λατινικόν. C ___ γράμμα ἐστίν, οὐχ Ἑλληνικόν. Β οὐ φωνῆεν, ἀλλὰ ___ ἐστιν. Β καὶ Γ οὐ φωνήεντα, ἀλλὰ ___ εἰσιν. Β [...] The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: April 7th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ASoFTyk3bzBE62dyn/my-unsupervised-elicitation-challenge --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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