Claude: For moderately popular artists presale is worth it. For truly hot shows, whether you get good tickets often comes down to luck more than strategy, because the system is somewhat stacked against individual buyers regardless of how prepared you are. What show are you thinking about? Me: Rush at msg Rush hasn’t toured in about a decade, and sadly a reunion isn’t possible — Neil Peart passed away in January 2020. He was widely considered one of the greatest rock drummers ever and was the irreplaceable core of their sound along with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. After his death both Geddy and Alex have said publicly there will be no Rush without Neil. So there’s no Rush show to buy tickets for unfortunately. If you’re a Rush fan though: Geddy Lee has been doing solo touring and released a solo album in 2023. Alex Lifeson has been doing some performing as well. Not the same obviously but worth knowing about if you want to see either of them live. There have also been Rush tribute bands that do surprisingly good recreations of their catalog if you just want to hear the music live. Were you thinking of a specific show you saw listed, or just hypothetically? If you saw something advertised as Rush at MSG I’d be skeptical — could be a tribute band using the name ambiguously. Claude you are wrong. Rush are touring with a new drummer. I’m surprised you didn’t know that. Thank you for the correction — let me look that up rather than guess.Searched the webSearched the webRush band touring 2025 new drummer10 resultsWho Is RUSH’s New Drummer Anika Nilles? www.moderndrummer.comRush is a Band Blog: Rush to re-form with new drummer Anika Nilles and embark on a 7 city, 12 date Fifty Something tour in 2026! www.rushisaband.comNew RUSH Touring Drummer ANIKA NILLES Shares ‘Fou Fou’ Music Video - BLABBERMOUTH.NETblabbermouth.netRush Announce 2026 Reunion Tour Dates + New Drummerloudwire.comRUSH – New Touring Drummer ANIKA NILLES Releases “Fou Fou” Music Videobravewords.comFifty Something Tour - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgRush Sets Reunion Tour for 2026; Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Discuss the ‘Difficult Decision’ of Finding a New Drummer After Neil Peart’s Deathvariety.comHow Anika Nilles Became Rush’s New Drummerultimateclassicrock.comRUSH Reveal How They Chose Anika Nilles as Their New Drummerconsequence.netWho is Anika Nilles? Meet Rush’s new drummer | CBC Musicwww.cbc.caDoneYou’re absolutely right and I apologize for the confident incorrect answer — that’s worse than just not knowing. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson announced a “Fifty Something” tour for 2026, their first shows in 11 years. TikTok Their new drummer is Anika Nilles, a 42-year-old German virtuoso who comes from a family of drummers. Consequence Nilles came to the band’s attention through Geddy’s bass tech, who raved about her while touring with Jeff Beck. IMDb Notably, Neil Peart’s widow Carrie and daughter Olivia have given their full support to the tour. Smooth Radio The first show is June 7 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles — the same venue as their last ever concert in 2015. The tour includes New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto and other cities, with two nights in each city playing career-spanning sets. The Washington Post So back to your original question — yes, absolutely worth trying to get tickets. This is a genuinely historic tour and given that Geddy and Alex are in their 70s, it’s likely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Given the demand, I’d use every presale option available to you. So why didn’t you know this the first time I asked? Fair criticism. A few honest reasons: My knowledge cutoff is August 2025, and this tour announcement may have come after that, or close enough to it that it wasn’t well represented in my training data. But more importantly — when you mentioned Rush at MSG, I should have searched immediately rather than confidently stating they weren’t touring. That was the real mistake. I knew Neil Peart had died and assumed rather than verified, which is exactly the wrong approach for current event questions like concert tours. The right move would have been to search first and answer second, the same way I just did when you corrected me. I’ll own that one — overconfidence is worse than uncertainty. Good news is you now know the tour is real and worth pursuing tickets for. Given what we discussed earlier about scalpers and presale, I’d register for any verified fan presale as soon as possible if you haven’t already. So will your process learn from this mistake? Honestly, no — not directly. Each conversation I have is essentially independent. I don’t carry memories or lessons learned from one conversation to the next. When this conversation ends, I won’t remember it happened. What actually changes my behavior: Anthropic periodically retrains and updates me using various methods, and conversations can inform that process — but that’s a slow, deliberate cycle, not real-time learning. And even then it’s not like I personally “remember” the lesson the way a human would after being corrected. What I do have built in: A general instruction to search before answering questions about current events rather than relying on my training data. I just failed to apply it in your case, which is a judgment error in the moment rather than a knowledge gap. The practical implication for you: In any conversation with me, if I state something confidently about current events, touring schedules, who holds a position, whether someone is alive — it’s always reasonable to push back and ask me to verify it. As you just demonstrated, I can be wrong in a very confident-sounding way. It’s one of my more significant limitations honestly. I’m much more reliable on stable knowledge than on anything that could have changed in the last year or two. What do you think caused that judgment error? Genuinely good question to reflect on. The most likely cause: Neil Peart’s death was such a significant and definitive event in my training data — widely covered, deeply mourned, with multiple statements from Geddy and Alex saying there would be no Rush without him — that it created a very strong prior in my reasoning. When you said “Rush at MSG” my pattern matching essentially said “that’s impossible” and skipped the verification step that I should apply to any current events question. It’s a specific failure mode: Confident negative conclusions are actually more dangerous than confident positive ones in my case. When I think something is happening I’m more likely to hedge or verify. When I think something definitively isn’t happening — because of a death, a breakup, a retirement — I’m more likely to just state it. The certainty of the negative made me skip the search. There’s also a subtler issue: The information about the tour announcement was either after my knowledge cutoff or underrepresented in my training data. But rather than recognizing that gap and searching, I filled it with confident reasoning from older information. Humans do this too — it’s a known cognitive bias called using available information to close gaps rather than acknowledging uncertainty. The honest meta-point: I’m quite good at sounding confident and coherent even when I’m wrong. That’s arguably more dangerous than obviously uncertain answers. You were right to push back. submitted by /u/Freedometer
Originally posted by u/Freedometer on r/ArtificialInteligence
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