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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Apple is doing insane stuff with iMessage making SMS useless with Android. It is intentional manipulation. I’ve only seen it on some Apple kernels with the latest iPhone. My old man’s phone absolutely will not send or receive an SMS unless I message is manually turned off and then it won’t get iMessages. Apple has always been a shitty company, but this is next level insane. Just get and use the Signal app and ditch all the proprietary garbage and manipulative bs IMO.






  • That is all model loader code based stuff. You basically just need a bit of Python code that anyone can write, even you. You need to have a look at how the model must be addressed in format, then you find how the model loader code you are using creates the structured text and just insert your own modifications.

    It is easier to add a second prompt window where you keep persistent information and just change it yourself. If you want the model to change that stuff, you need to look into building an agent.

    I hacked around like this for awhile too, but evolved into using the notepad tab of Oobabooga Textgen WebUI and a Mixtral 8×7B model with a 32k context window. That model can deal with almost any detail you add in the context.

    The thing is, the model may not feel satisfied with mundane and redundant details. Most of the time, believe it or not, those changes that you perceive as errors or inconsistencies are not actually errors. The model is fully aware that it is making those changes. There is usually an instruction about creativity, inspiration, or initiative that will cause the model to shift details like this.

    My best recommendation is to openly discus the error in dialog with the model. They usually will talk about the issue if you call one out. Talking with AI is very different than with humans. Everything they say has meaning and functions beyond what is initially apparent. There are a lot of behaviors that involve certain patterns and keywords. You can even alter these behaviors by banning certain tokens/keywords. A good place to start is banning paragraph starting words for filler material. “So_” would be a good starting token to ban, as with AI, no sentence that starts with that token is worth reading. Other important words are twist, chuck, and cross. These are more flexible in their troublesome meaning and can manifest in multiple words like chuckles or across but still function the same inside the model.

    If you get to this level of familiarity, the persistence of a storied interaction is more of a negotiation with the AI.

    Another point of understanding is that the model does not know the difference between roleplaying characters it owns and you own or who is who. You or the model loader code is creating the name of the next character that the model generates for. Everyone in any story can be the model if it is asked to create the prompt.

    So if I say, “Jake is super creative” or imply it somewhere in the prompt, and the model later thinks ‘Jake is rather bored and needs to be creative’ it is going to change something that satisfies that character profile even if it has never generated the output for character Jake.

    Hope that helps some







  • My life is on a trajectory to homelessness with disability and a system that refuses to help me. This is me, in the future, being traumatized, abused, and dying in a gutter somewhere while being criminalized because a political refugee from the other side of the world had to have a driver’s license but had the cognitive capacity of a third grader. I was just commuting to work on a bicycle, a racer, upper middle class guy, working in a chain of high end bike shops. I’m you on an extremely unlucky day. You’re only one bad day away from this exact same issue.






  • Hike sound like 1st date PC to anyone? I mean, it depends on the definition of hike but someone I barely know dragging me to an isolated place in the woods somewhere sounds like a legit way to end up being drug through the woods with a much higher probability than the typical coffee shop date.

    Also, who doesn’t have work-mances without deeper meaning? I always have beer after work bros and lunch/break dates with my coworkers but that has no meaning beyond. In fact, I’ve always had a strict rule of never shit in my own back yard. If I was so inclined as to date someone from work, I would not do so until after finding a new job.



  • There’s nothing wrong with disconnecting and enjoying simple things. I love watching some kids movies too. The observation is more nuanced and refers to the way we tend to fail to see our interpersonal growth over time. We tend to see nostalgia without the influence of how we matured. It is like our memory of the thing has matured in imperceptible ways.

    I struggle for the words to really describe it outright now that I try. I’m coming from the mindset of writing my own hard science fiction universe and the perspective it has given me, especially when it comes to underlying storytelling frameworks, social/political structures, and defining what is fantasy magic.

    Like is a solar ring structure used to make antimatter safely to one way interstellar generation ships magic? It is for the scale of human economy today. Is it fantasy to imagine self replicating drones? I think it is just a matter of time and scale, where I am willing to say at kilometers scale it is possible. It is basically packaging an industrial complex in space. So that seems reasonable. However I find moving faster than causality and space navies childish nonsense. I see exceptionalism as the doctrine of a neo feudal oligarchy, and a story of inevitable tyranny of an authoritarian monster repulsive.

    I had no clue about these themes as a child, but now I can’t unsee them. I dob not think most people have or care about this kind of defined awareness, but I think these undertones exist just outside of their awareness.

    Outside of the philosophical, just telling a congruent story is critical, and those failures are egregious in any story.


  • It was a paraphrased quote of Lukas himself that said he made the first films for 10 year olds and the second series for 5 year olds. You need to see it from the perspective of someone willing to risk losing tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in a gamble that is never a sure thing. The artistry is a very minor often overlooked aspect when this kind of money is in play. I’ve had a job spending a couple of million dollars a year where my mistakes could cost a chain of businesses closing and around three dozen jobs. Buying high end bicycles at that scale requires me to completely disconnect my opinion and style biases and become an account first and foremost. People do not take risks to tell stories, they tell stories that follow an interpretation of statistical metrics.

    The targeted movie rating is key to demographic and without a demographic there are no numbers to make a financial argument for the risk. Films are made TO fit, not made AND fit. The risk is never blind.


  • The target age demographic is always at most (PG-) 13. Because this target does not change, if the viewer matures, the nostalgia of youth will never align with the expectations of the matured mind. It is the entire tenured ratings system and standardized ultra simplistic morality culture that prevent capitalization on an evolving demographic. Instead, everyone consuming this media is incentivised to remain adolescent of mind or complain about how elements of their childhood fail to align with their evolved and matured expectations.


  • The cynicism of reality;

    the full spectrum of self awareness;

    the layers upon layers of conflicting correct perspectives;

    an understanding of the duality of order and chaos;

    the crippling nature of battling a skilled Platonic sophist;

    unmasking sadism;

    the constant internal revisionism of curiosity and self growth;

    the abstractions of the philosopher must come at a cost, and one must ask what is the price of thought.



  • I don’t think it is truly possible to lack an opinion. Indifference is the opposite of caring, and therefore the opposite of both love and hate at the same time. Indifference is an acceptable state of mind, but it is still an opinion. I will postulate, as silly as it is in extreme abstraction, that the opposite of opinion is only possible in death. Existence itself implies a state of awareness and opinion on abstracted levels of consciousness.