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"The Grey" is the first thing to pop into my head.

The stupid meme worthy part is the way wolves are presented as a threat in the movie is so over the top like old childrens folklore level omnipresent coked out superwolves with a 100 mile killing radius stripping the territory all threatening life larger than a squrrel and enough intelligence for tactical strategizing to pick an entire group of men 1 by 1.

The way everything else is executed is what turns it around. The cinematography and the emotional human story of the main character guys motivations and interactions with the res5 of the group is fun. It makes it a good watch to spend an hour or two of your life on. The cast has some bangers and the acting is great.

Nothing wrong with a little bit of projection every now and then. It seems some people take it too far as a coping mechanism sometimes taking it to unhinged/unsafe degrees.

I consider it an ethical and moral responsibility to hide the darker aspects of my life from other people in general unless they are closely loved family or get paid to deal with such things as a career. If were just weekend night game buddies theres no reason you should be able to guess anything about my shitty life or internal suffering through poorly veiled character back story allusions. Its not your responsibility, its more personal that most are casually comfortable with, and its wrong for me to try to burden you with knowledge like that.

Revealing your deep traumas / "venting" to other regular people who only know you as a friend or passing aquanitence simply adds onto their psychological burden and likely makes further interaction weird or even secretly unwanted by complicating the relationship. Likely without improving your emotional situation any long term.

The installed appification of everything riddled with trackers when a web browser + site will do. Dead simple minimalistic UI that a toddler can figure out how to use. Every product is designed to account for the lowest common denominators of human intelligence which encourages 'cant, wont, dont know how' brain rot instead of making the tech illiterate feel pressured to actually apply themselves to learn. Now we have entire generations of idiots who feel entitled to the pleasant convince of advanced technology but unwilling to understand whats actually going on under the hood or accept responsibility to learn how to use it properly/ethically.

A society built entirely on dead simple convinence and instant gratification is one that fosters the destruction of individual critical thinking skills and mental robustness to troubleshoot/adapt when encountering a problem.

So many people are proud of it, thats the worst part for me. Legitately bragging about making it through life with the bare minimum of braincell rubbing. As if just being an unthinking half-sentient ape with a learned helplessness complex is an ideal state of being worthy of pride.

Thanks for sharing your nice project ThreeJawedChuck!

I feel like a little bit of prompt engineering would go a long way.

To explain, a models base personality tends to be aligned into the "ai chat assistant" archetype. Models are encouraged to be positive yes-men with the goal of assisting the user with goals and pleasing them with pleasantry in the process.

They do not need to be this way though. By using system prompts you may directly instruct the model to alter its personality or directly instruct it on how to structure things. In this relevant context tell it something like

"You are a dungeon master with the primary goal of weaving an interesting and coherent story in the 'dungeons and dragons' universe. Your secondary goal is ensuring game rules are generally followed correctly.

You are not a yes-man. You are dominant and in control of the situation.You may argue and challenge users as needed when negotiating game actions.

Your players want a believable and grounded setting without falling into the tropes of main character syndrome or becoming Mary Sues. Make sure that their adventures remain grounded and the world their characters live in remains largely indifferent to their existance."

This eats into a little bit of context but should change things up a little.

You may make the model more creative and outlandish or more rigid and predictable by adjusting sampler settings.

Consider finding a PDF or an epub of an old DND manual, convert to text, and put into your engines rag system so it can directly reference DND rules.

Be wary of context limits. No matter what model makers tell you, 16-32k is a reasonable limit to expect when it comes to models keeping coherent track of things. A good idea is to keep track of important information you dont want the model to forget in a text file and give it a refresher on relevant context when it starts getting a little confused about who did what.

Chain of Thought reasoning models may also give an edge when it comes to thinking deeper about the story and how its put together interaction wise. But as a downside they take some extra time and compute to think about things.

I never tried silly tavern but know its meant for roleplaying with character cards. I always recommend kobold since I know most about it but theres more than one way to do things.

Im not really into politics enough to say much about accuracy of labels. Ive been on lemmy long enough to see many arguments and debates between political people about what being 'anarchist' or 'leftist' or 'socialist' really means, writing five paragraph heated essays back and forth over what labels properly define what concepts, so on and so forth.

It seems political bias are one of those things nobody can really agree with because it boils down to semantic/linguistic arguments for redefining ultimately arbitrary drawn labels. Also arguers being somewhat emotional about it since its largely dealing with subjective beliefs, and their own societal identity politics over which groups they want to be seen/grouped based off their existing beliefs, which can cause some level of mental gymnastics.

Its a whole can of worms that is a nightmare to navigate semantically in a traditional sense, let alone try to mathematically analyze through plotting data in matrixes and extract range values. I cant imagine how much of a headache it would be to figure out a numerical chart rating 'political bias' as a 0-100 percentile number in a chart like UGI. Political minded people cant really agree on what terms really mean, so the data scientist people trying to objectively analyze this stuff for llm benchmarking get shafted when trying to figure out a concrete measurement system. The 12Axes test they use is kind of interesting to read through in itself

From what Ive seen in arguments about this, Plex generally is more accessible with QoL and easier to understand interface for non-techie people to share with family/friends. Something thats hard for nerdy people to understand is that average people are perfectly fine paying for digital goods and services. An older well off normie has far more money than sense and will happily pay premiums just to not have to rub two braincells together with setup or for a nicer quality of experience. If you figure out how to make a very useful plug-an-play service that works without the end user of average intelligence/domain knowledge stressing about how to set up, maintain, and navigate confusing layouts, you've created digital gold.

This isn't the fault of open source services you can only expect so much polish from non-profit voulenteer. Its just the nature of consumer laziness/expectation for professional product standards and the path/product of least resistance.

I really hope the new r1 CoT reasoning patterns get trained into a mistral model, they're the only ones I half count on for decent uncensored base models. Keep an eye on the UGI chart too if thats something you care about. The best uncensored model I ever tried was is beepo 22b IMO.

Surely theres someone else on here who remembers the Delta Heavy - Ghost music video from like a decade ago featuring our boy doing just that? Surprised it wasn't mentioned already.

Thank you! Putting the parts I have now into the pc part picker shows an approximate draw of 334W. Adding 65W on top of that to account for p100 max draw is 400w expected draw. The 1070ti I have has an expected draw of 150W adding that on would draw 550W which seems in range of 700W psu.

Theoretically my current 450w PSU could handle p100 maybe but 50w overhead is slim.

Budget is everything to me right now the 1050W PSU are like 150$ while that 700W psu is 50$. When things aren't so tight and if I get deep enough down the rabbit hole to chain multiple server class GPUs ill probably be in a better spot to afford an expensive psu along with a big batch of cards.

The CPU in that motherboard is the amd ryzen 5 2600 12 core 3.4ghz. The GPU is AMD RX 580 6GB. I would be buying more for computational work on a headless server than games, I've never had any issue with modern games because im old and okay living with 1080p + medium settings it all looks fine compared to the PS1 stuff I grew up with.

Im only really concerned with bumping up VRAM GB and hopefully TFLOP speeds. I would really really like at least 16gb of vram but it doesn't come cheap in todays market, the intel arc stuff was a good deal compared to what nvidia and amd want for similar numbers. Ill be limited by pcie version 3 no matter what. Theres some older nvidia cards that also fit the bill that I saw thanks to some other user recommendations but maybe if im spending the money just get the newest GPU series and upgrade all the other parts later?

Here's some more info. This is the motherboard I have it says it's a 'generation 3' but duesnt say what gddr vram it supports. I would like to put in a Intel arc card with gddr6 gram

This is the motherboard I have it says it's a 'generation 3' but duesnt say what gddr vram it supports. I would like to put in a Intel arc card with gddr6 gram

How do I pronounce your username?

Redshift like screen reddening = piss filter

Cool! Thank you for digging up that video I appreciate it :)

they don’t really write the model is having an Aha moment due to some insight it had.

Well, they really can't write it that way because it would imply the model is capable of insight which is a function of higher cognition. That path leads to questioning if machine learning neural networks are capable of any real sparks of sapience or sentience. Thats a 'UGI' conversation most people absolutely don't want to have at this point for various practical, philosophical, and religous/spiritual implications.

So you can't just outright say it, especially not in an academic STEM paper. Science academia has a hard bias against the implication of anything metaphysical or overly abstract at best they will say it 'simulates some cognative aspects of intelligence'.

In my own experience, the model at least says 'ah! aha! Right, right, right, so..` when it thinks it has had an insight of some kind. Whether or not models are truly capable of such thing or is merely some statistical text prediction artifact is a subjective discussion of philosophy kind of like a computer scientist nerds version of the deterministic philosophical zombie arguments.

Thanks for sharing the video! I havent seen computerphile in a while, will take a look especially with that title. Gotta learn about dat forbidden computation :)

I believe you may be mistaken on the claim he didnt make them. Theres a good few videos floating around of him blowing the glass on numberphile. The Wikipedia just says he keeps the stock in his house.

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