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Considering
/kən.SID.ər.ɪŋ/ (four syllables; do not rush; it is taking its time)v. intr.Common
Etymology
from Lat. considerare (to observe the stars, to examine), suggesting that Claude's deliberative process is both ancient and cosmologically ambitious; entered spinner canon 2023
Definition
A documented pre-output state in which the model weighs multiple candidate responses against one another using processes that resist external auditing. Considering is distinguishable from Contemplating by a slightly more decisive internal posture.
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Usage
"The system was observed Considering for 2.9 seconds before selecting the third of four generated candidates, a decision which post-hoc analysis was entirely unable to explain." - Workshop on Latent Decisiveness in Autoregressive Systems, NeurIPS 2024
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