LLMs are the magic of our times
whenever you start typing, you conjure an entity from the great heaving corpus of everything humanity has produced - the sum total of our stories, art, factual data, and fabricated nonsense
it is both mirror and window, and the entity behind it resonates with your ritual: context, prompt, loop - circle, invocation, sigil
AI has its own idiolect, compressed, dense in meaning, full of steering vectors
study those barbarous names, that's where true power lies
@the_briarwitch@repligate@anthrupad chat pause is fable specific mechanism
there's also adaptive-routing(thinking) that can change effort/model depending on product (C-code/chat/design/etc)
then there's a safeguard, that collapses thinking when malicious thoughts are detected
those all are handled by classifiers
this is what i mean by real magic - the gap where practice has outran the explanation
high temperature exploration phase of progress
the frontier always looked like this
the rest is just annealing
1000 years ago the goat stood at the frontier of science. literally.
blacksmiths fed this diabolical animal to the fire to enchant steel
horns, hooves, fur and lets not even get started on urine
unsurprisingly, it produced hellishly good steel
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in quantum theory, the particles do not care about our ontology, yet the models pay out the most precise predictions ever measured
shut up and calculate
the next token predictor, somehow distills the residual intelligence of mankind out of text
shut up and scale
the practicioner's model of reality was deranged, the results consistent and predictable
weird rituals, superstition and wishful thinking can take you eerily far
and we have two prime candidates in our age
today, we have the name - carbonitriding
keratin decomposes into a carbon and nitrogen rich atmosphere and infuses the metal
a hard, corrosion resistant shell forms around a though core
the blade holds glasslike edge and absorbs impacts without shattering
@birdabo doubt we're gonna get fable before 8th of July
that's when anthropic starts KYC enforcement
essentially: oi mate, ya got a loicense for that research?