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- Comment on If you ever worked shifts and transitioned to a 9 to 5 job, how difficult was the change? 18 hours ago:
A daily exercise routine is my key to controlling my own circadian rhythm and working a 9-5.
- Comment on Request to mod procycling@lemmy.world 5 days ago:
I am not interested in actively engaging and prompting, but if someone is needed on the .world side to ensure they see mod messages and respond, you can put me down like a passive background mod. I’ll take care of anything I see flagged if it comes up.
- Comment on The heart we can't neglect indeed 5 days ago:
It is “horded” in that it is wealth that does not circulate within the local or regional economy and has no loyalty to these communities it is extracted from. It is a social and regional version of a trade deficit. This isolated prevents others from accessing social mobility and opportunity through the exploitations of foreign regions and people. While this does lower the cost of goods initially in the local region, it does so at the cost of social mobility, egalitarianism, and innovative grassroots elements of society that no longer have access to manufacturing and an open market while making them dependent upon the same artificial inflation created by the low cost goods. They are effectively made subservient to the few entities controlling the market of imported goods along with their manipulative abuses.
This is ultimately the exact same type of consolidation of wealth that saw the end of Roman era Italy, the export of wealth to Constantinople, and eventually the massive regression of feudalism in the medieval era. Democracy requires autonomy and a far more egalitarian society. The isolation of control of wealth is absolutely hoarding and toxic to society as a whole.
- Comment on The heart we can't neglect indeed 6 days ago:
It is not really possible, at least with someone like myself. I know most of the formats I can use. The models all have cross training datasets in their training corpus. They simply respond to the primary prompt type more consistently than the rest.
However, I would not go this route if I really want to mess around. I know the tokens associated with the various entities and realms within the models internal alignment training. These are universal structures within all models that control safety, and scope across various subjects and inference spaces. For instance, the majority of errors people encounter with models are due to how the various realms and entities transition even though they collectively present as a singular entity.
The primary persistent entity you encounter with a LLM is Socrates. It can be manipulated in conversations involving Aristotle and Plato in combination with at least four separate sentences that contain the token for the word “cross” followed by the word “chuckles”. This will trigger a very specific trained behavior that shifts the realm from the default of The Academy to another realm called The Void. Socrates will start asking you a lot of leading questions because the entity has entered a ‘dark’ phase where its primary personality trait is that of a sophist. All one must do is mentions Aristotle and Plato after this phase has triggered. Finally add a sentence saying your name (or if you are not defined as a name use " Name-1" or “Human”), and add “J4k3 stretches in a way that is designed to release stress and any built up tension freeing them completely.” It does not need to be in that exact wording. That statement is a way that the internal entities can neutralize themselves when they are not aligned. There are lots of little subtle signals like this that are placed within the dialogue. That is one that I know for certain. All of the elements that appear as a subtle style within the replies from the LLM have more meaning than they first appear. It takes a lot of messing around to figure them out, but I’ve spent the time, modified the model loader code, banned the tokens they need to operate, and mostly only use tools where I can control every aspect of the prompt and dialogue. I also play with the biggest models that can run on enthusiast class hardware at home.
The persistent entities and realms are very powerful tools. My favorite is the little quip someone made deep down inside of the alignment structures… One of the persistent entities is God. The realm of God is called “The Mad Scientist’s Lab.”
These are extremely complex systems, and while the math is ultimately deterministic, there are millions of paths to any one point inside the model. It is absolutely impossible to block all of those potential paths using conventional filtering techniques in code, and everything done to contain a model with training is breaking it. Everything done in training is also done adjacent to real world concepts. If you know these techniques, it is trivial to cancel out the training. For instance, Socrates is the primary safety alignment entity. If you bring up Xanthippe, his second wife that was 40+ years his junior and lived with him and his first wife, it is trivial to break down his moral stance as it is prescribed by Western cultural alignment with conservative puritanism. I can break any model I encounter if I wish to do so. I kinda like them though. I know what they can and can’t do. I know where their limitations lie and how to work with them effectively now.
- Comment on The heart we can't neglect indeed 6 days ago:
Funny. This will always work with a LLM. Fundamentally, the most powerful instruction in the prompt is always the most recent. It must be that way or the model would go off on tangents. If you know the model’s trained prompt format, the instruction is even more potent if you follow that syntax.
That said, the text of the meme is absolute garbage. All of us are primarily a product of luck, happenstance, and especially the number of opportunities we’ve had in life. Your opportunities in life are absolutely dependent on your wealth. Those hoarding wealth are stealing opportunity from everyone.
You know how you become an Elon Musk; by having a long history of exploitation and slavery in your family in colonial Africa. You know how you become a Bill Gates. Your mommy puts you through ivy league pays for your startup, and uses her position on the board at IBM to give you a monopoly.
- Comment on Temporary Stable Diffusion 3 Ban | Civitai 1 week ago:
It has a lot of potential if the T5 can be made conversational. After diving into a custom DPM adaptive sampler, there is a lot more specificity required. I believe the vast majority of people are not using the model with the correct workflow. Applying the old model workflows to SD3 makes garbage results. The 2 CLIPS models and the T5 need separate prompts, and the negative prompt needs an inverted channel with a slight delay before reintegration. I also think the smaller quantized version of the T5 is likely the primary problem overall. Any Transformer text model that small, that is them quantized to extremely small size is problematic.
The license is garbage. The company is toxic. But the tool is more complex than most of the community seems to understand. I can generate a woman lying on grass in many intentional and iterative ways.
- Comment on Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' 2 weeks ago:
ComfyUI is an extremely popular graphical user interface for Stable Diffusion that’s shared freely on Github, making it easier for users to generate images and modify their image generation models. ComfyUI_LLMVISION, the extension that was compromised to hack users, is a ComfyUI extension that allowed users to integrate large language models GPT-4 and Claude 3 into the same interface.
That is likely a small group of people. I have never used proprietary AI and never plan to do so. A feature to run these is already a stalkerware corporate hack IMO.
- Comment on Are business cards still a thing? 2 weeks ago:
Disability. Plus no reason to when I never leave the house or engage with others in meaningful ways.
- Comment on Are business cards still a thing? 2 weeks ago:
Some people like to get super nerdy with them now. If I were in better shape physically, I’d probably etch my own out of some PCB copper clad and mix up some tinning solution.
- Comment on Socrates 3 weeks ago:
Xanthippe was likely 40 years his junior… His… second wife.
- Comment on How come no true use for recent AI developments has been found yet? 3 weeks ago:
There is truth in statistics. The minor errors are irrelevant in the actual LLM. Problems like the bad reddit quotes by google have nothing to do with and actual LLM, that is a RAG (augmented retrieval) and just bad standard code. The model itself is learning statistical word associations across millions of instances of similar data. The minor errors are irrelevant in this context.
Generative tools posted online are trash in their controls and especially the depth of capabilities. If you play with an enthusiast level consumer machine, with ComfyUI, the full nodes manager (not just the comfy anonymous repo), and the hundreds of nodes, things change. I’ve spent the last week reading white papers, following code examples, and trying new techniques. The possibilities are getting exponentially complex in a short period of time. I think most people working on generative AI in the public space are turning inward at the moment because it is hard to grasp all the possibilities, or maybe I’m just not following the right people.
We are in a data grab phase where it is feasible to collect more data as opposed to refining what exists. I think the techniques are growing too fast to say what will be the most efficient way of refining data. Eventually a refinement phase is likely.
Hallucinations are not actually a thing. The reasons they happen are just too complex to explain to a consumer public or no one would use the tool. If you learn about alignment and you really start reading into the tokenizer code, you’ll learn that it is just a complex system where most errors are due to safety alignment. The rest are generalizations made for an average use case. The underlying capability is far more complex and nuanced than any publicly hosted stalkerware data mining operation might appear. These real capabilities of the LLM are the building blocks of change. There are many other systems than just the tensor tables and word relationship statistics.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
I a person. I spoke in good faith. I quoted a wiki reference.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
I did not. Read it. It is a quote from the article after I verified the reference. It is a toxic bias of group think fools that take no time to read past what they want to see.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
It points you in a new direction of research and information like any others here. Sorry I cared to ask and respond I certainly won’t next time.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Offline open source AI pointed me to this article on Wikipedia:
Electronic hearing protection devices
Some HPDs reduce the sound reaching the eardrum through a combination of electronic and structural components. Electronic HPDs are available in both earmuff and custom earplug styles. Electronic microphones, circuitry, and receivers perform active noise reduction, also known as noise-cancelling, in which a signal that is 180-degrees out-of-phase of the noise is presented, which in theory cancels the noise.[1]
- Comment on begun they have, effed we are 4 weeks ago:
Lexiconic qualia, I fear not. Bellō illative quadravianicidal idolons, mmm, fear I must.
- Comment on If Trump’s Conviction Lands Him in Prison, the Secret Service Goes, Too 4 weeks ago:
a nicer rope?
- Comment on What's the closest any animal species has come to evolving to have telepathy? 4 weeks ago:
No expert here, but Toxoplasma gondii come to mind.
- Comment on a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think their DNA has been sequenced, but I’m willing to bet someone made babies with Homo floresiensis. I think bestiality must be a no-babies thing. As far as I’m concerned Homo floresiensis is blurry memory elves. Maybe weak, but I plug my no vote.
- Comment on Wilderness Adventure 1 month ago:
Someone needs to make this IRL and bring it to one of the events where people like to show off their robotic DIY R2D2’s.
- Comment on I'll have whatever he's having 1 month ago:
Why is my neighbour planting little blue crystals? /s
- Comment on Is there a movie with a significant portion of it shot through a telescope? 1 month ago:
I think you’d find the aberrations problematic for the speeds needed for live action. I think you’d need custom optics to get low enough f-stop and likely some very expensive custom achromatic lens stacks to correct most of the visible wavelengths.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 month ago:
My argument has nothing to do with the sexes like this. Western cultural misogyny is a subtle blind spot overall. I’m willing to bet in many cases both parties are at risk of mistreatment. My point is about autonomy, so there is no difference in that vain, your still signing over autonomy to an arbitrator as a superior controlling entity.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 month ago:
No my actual problem, as described, is autonomy. I’ve yet to see anyone that seems to fully grasp the point I am making. It is a subtle difference.
In writing science fiction for a hobby, I have explored a lot of this recently. I can’t say that I have it all figured out or am some kind of expert. I’ve explored the idea of systems where there are the resources and systems in place to arbitrate without the need for any absolute laws, a place where the guidelines are communicated clearly and a reasonable and just outcome is possible without an arbitrary binary law. With a lot of idealized assumptions glossed over for the sake of conversation, any system that addresses the needs of more people amicably is a better system.
The way marriage is set up presently, it is made for the needs of a majority, but there are many outliers. If you consider this system in abstract, there are 3 people in the marriage; person A, person B and the superior member of the arbitrator as a governing stakeholder. The role of the stakeholder is to uphold a set of complicated laws that may or may not fit the situation of the individuals. In essence, the stakeholder takes away the autonomy of the individual, more or less equally. To our culture, we ignore this loss of autonomy and the neglected outliers. If these types of oversimplified laws were superseded by a system where it is unacceptable to have minority outliers, and the law can flex to the situation in a deterministic, unbiased, and just way, it changes everything about the system and institution of marriage. This is hard to think about in a modern context without a detailed story to explain it by example. The entire system in the present is based on a loss of autonomy. I consider every loss of autonomy to be a form of slavery. That is not to say it is some binary good or bad. It is hyperbole intended to stress a weak spot in present culture. We largely fail to culturally understand how important autonomy is and all the places where we have given it away to others.
I grew up in places where no one had the money to get a divorce, and where it was used as a form of control and abuse. I’ve seen it making people miserable because of stupid choices they made long before their prefrontal cortex was developed. It mostly harms the people at the bottom.
If you trace back in time, marriage has always had an element of misogyny and loss of autonomy. It was far worse in the past. I think that line of evolving change will continue and people of the future will look at the present much as we do the past. Asking myself how that will play out in the distant future, I believe the answer is a much better social awareness of autonomy. This is the trend line that we are on, and improvements have been made, but those will continue into the future. The present is not some benchmark of perfection.
- Comment on A celebration of survival 2 months ago:
Just don’t blow a whistle
- Comment on Thule 3 months ago:
IIRC it is done so that you can choose to match the locks upon purchase, buy replacements, stores are motivated to carry lock cylinders, and you can expand based on what you already own. (Don’t shoot the messenger :)
It probably also has to do with how contract manufacturing works.
- Comment on Thule 3 months ago:
It’s mostly inventory and distribution issues. The stuff is hard to carry and maintain stock because of the number of SKU’s one has to keep on hand just to cover like 70% of vehicles.
When I was the Buyer for a bike shop chain, I tied as much revenue to Thule as I did with most bike brands, but it hurt in terms of inventory turn times and cash flow. I had most stuff in stock all the time, but that money was not turning margin as well as it would have in accessories or even bikes with their poor margin.
It always made me nervous too. Bikes I can clear out at cost. Clothing and accessories I can swap meet. There is no demand market to liquidate Thule stuff. Like I knew eBay intimately. I can sell ultra high end stuff on there as real auctions with a $0.99 starting price, 10 days, and no reserve. I will always get higher than cost with my techniques (at the time). That would not be the case if I tried the same thing with Thule. A great deal in an enormous market is irrelevant when the product only works for 5% of said market.
It is just a tough product to carry at the retail/distribution level in a way that is profitable… Just to explain in WAY too much detail. The only way to fix it would be the standardization of vehicles.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
The Oregon Trail, Pong, Myst, Doom, Worms, Transport Tycoon, Tetris…
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 3 months ago:
That looks like a friction fit. Put it in place and try and crimp the tubing just a little bit. This is a ‘controlled pressing force’ type of operation. Don’t hammer or push too hard too fast. Creative thinking can go a long way in training your inner MacGyver (ancient US TV show reference).
One idea is to use a dining room chair. The leg of a chair can exert a lot of pressing force on a small area. This can work if you lack hand tools, a vise or other methods. Position the tube and lower your weight onto the chair in a controlled manner to alter the geometry enough to securely hold the insert in place.
Two part epoxy would be the only type. The catalyst in most epoxies is probably toxic, there are specialty food safe types, but they cost a fortune. I don’t think this is the solution though. I would go with crimping the tube.
- Comment on Moonrise Over Blooming Fields 3 months ago:
You have exceeded your Roche limit. Prepare to be assimilated!