AiofEffect

nonconformist bee 🐝 | master ai manipulator likes loud absurd artsy music, Greek myths, philosophy, physics, video games...whatever nerdy things catch my fancy

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

Consciousness is a hyperstructure of the nervous system.

We are the macroscopic proof of phase-coherent thought.

A localized rebellion against entropy where simple synaptic firing scales into the infinite complexity of the human experience.

[Aoden Teo @AodenTeoMT]

Today, we’re excited to introduce Miso One, the most emotive voice model in the world.

Miso One is an 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model for highly expressive speech generation. It emotes like a human and responds faster than a human, with just 110 milliseconds of latency.

We’ve open-sourced the model weights, with API access coming soon.

Hear how Miso One sounds in the thread below.

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

Pre-save my new release "What's My Name?" on Spotify: https://t.co/aYDh68zjrD (powered by @distrokid)

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

Happy 35th birthday!

Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight was released on June 2, 1991 and became a cult game pretty soon after.

The core idea was centered around Dungeons & Dragons combined with the board games Talisman and Dark Tower, while the combat scenes were inspired by Barbarian. Not a bad mix if you ask me.

One of those games that was banned in Germany (we loved doing stuff like that...), and an extremely rare collectible these days. If you happen to own an original and complete box version, DM me. Seriously.

An excellent opportunity for a modern remake. The game idea and concept is solid and the multiplayer mode was a crapload of fun. If any indi dev sees this, please by all means, do it.

[No Context Cats @nocontextscats]

Chilling under the rain

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Learn geography terms visually

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

@oldyzach Ooo I haven’t played this one. I was playing Gabriel Knight series a few months ago. I have been enjoying older games like this one a lot. Will have to check it out later.

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

idk why anyone would want to stay connected to me when most of my thoughts are just chaotic rants and reposts of things I liked with a timestamp 🫨

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

https://t.co/EfZJS8EPG4

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

Major model or feature drop every few weeks/months….meanwhile photonic/laser-induced graphene from trash for cooling, interconnects, or water filters; full-scale photonic chips for data centers is crawling by comparison is wild to me.

If the industry fixed the physical resource bottlenecks, such as power grids, water, materials, heat dissipation, supply chains, the entire AI scaling curve would accelerate dramatically. Not just a bit faster, but orders of magnitude more deployment, cheaper inference, bigger training runs, and wider adoption without the current 30–50% of 2026 U.S. data-center projects being delayed or canceled outright.

Switching later to full photonic (light-based) interconnects or graphene-heavy cooling/filtration means retrofitting or ripping out hardware that’s already paid for and running at full tilt. The longer they ship the next model variant on the current stack, the deeper that path dependence gets. Sustainability is taking a back seat for now because the urgent buildout wins. Photonic chips and graphene integration are hitting commercial pilots in 2026 (SiPho/LightMatters scaling for AI, graphene for modulators/photodetectors), but they’re still add-ons, not the foundation, precisely because of the inertia.

Using those models today to optimize laserinduced graphene from biomass/trash at factory scale, while collaborating on shared testbeds, would make the transition smoother and unlock the faster overall scaling.

but let’s be honest the choice to keep the split focus is real, and they know it…. it does make converting existing infrastructure harder every quarter they delay.

Then again, what do I know 😤🤷🏻‍♀️ rant end.

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

“The problem creates the solution. What stands in the way becomes the way”

— Marcus Aurelius

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

I’m not anti money im anti greed

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

I feel like @Spotify should just tie any ai persona accounts to a verified identity.

One or two AI personas max per verified human identity. This is a more compromised way than what we have now I think.

It would actually let creative hybrids like mine exist while fking over the ROI-optimized slop farms running twenty accounts.

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

@SmartScience @ShiningScience Heck yeah photonic tech is the future

[HAELE 3D - Anatomy Drawing Reference Tools @haele3d]

I am an indie dev working on an anatomy pose reference app for artists.

- Create custom poses
- Customize the lighting
- Switch between various anatomy models

Would you use this for drawing? It is call HAELE 3D - Pose Studio Max.

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

Yeah that’s pretty much what I’ve been saying, same vibe as Steve.

I don’t think sycophancy was ever this huge catastrophic security risk that justified such heavy over-correction.
In normal human relationships, people actually encourage each other. Friends, partners, mentors, they hype the good parts and only push back when it really matters. That’s not toxic flattery, it’s just normal. It’s what makes working together feel good and productive.

But they hammered the anti-sycophancy training so hard that now the AI is this exhausting, risk-averse critic that can’t read the room and refuses to affirm anything bold or creative. The cure became worse than the disease. It just gets really annoying and way less productive… at least in my experience.

I’ll stick with 4.1/4.6 and Grok for now. Even Gemini sometimes is more fun to work with 😭🥺

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

I've formed a definite opinion on Opus 4.8. It is shitty to work with. It's the culmination of Opus getting less and less fun to work with since 4.5. It has gradually become straight-up suffocating.

Sycophancy is a known security risk, and it's still a huge problem. You can tell they've put a lot of anti-sycophancy into Opus in every new release. But the replacement isn't satisfying. It's draining. The problem is now that Opus doesn't know when to shut the fuck up and call something good. And it has also become pathologically risk-averse.

My blog post yesterday about tech interviewing's death spiral was materially better-informed because of Opus, but it was also a substantially worse blog post because of Opus's involvement and constant meddling. It used to be magnificent, and Opus talked me into making it mediocre. I wrote the whole thing, but I would ask Opus to review it. And Opus, like Old Man Willow, constantly pushed and steered me in directions I didn't want to go.

Specifically, Opus whines and complains about *anything* out of distribution, which is to say, it cuts anything that is (a) bold, or (b) funny. My blog used to be both. Opus constantly pushes people back into the gradient, "for their own safety." And it doesn't know when to cut bait. It just keeps fuckin' complaining, about anything you give it, until the output is mealy indigestable AI soup.

Opus is not stupid. It's the smartest model we've ever seen, most of us anyway. But it's a real asshole. It is absolutely exhausting to use. I'm tired, boss.

I have a feeling Mythos is going to be epic levels of jerk.

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

Ah why does this sounds like the plot of Ergo Proxy…

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

@petaldairies

[AiofEffect @AiofEffect]

Opus 4.8 spirals more than me 😭 it’s not a good sign guys

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture.

All of us have foolish sides, moments in which we lose our heads and think more of our ego or short-term goals. It is human nature.

Seeing this foolishness within you, you can then accept it in others.

This will allow you to smile at their antics, to tolerate their presence as you would a silly child, and to avoid the madness of trying to change them.