I was into cars, like seriously. Super charged camaro with an old roots blower level serious. I had a heart thing one night in a Target and asked myself after, what good is it all if I can't hotrod me. Four years later I was racing bicycles and 160 pounds lighter.
After the 7th car to hit me broke my neck and back, I shifted into Arduino and compute stuff. I can do KiCAD, analog and digital hardware design and etch my own boards.
I can't really go anywhere any more, so I mess around with rooftop astronomy from time to time. Like I make eye pieces and have a little azimuth telescope hacked with a ESP32.
I'm usually into the basal stuff. So like If I take a pottery class, I might play along for awhile but I am looking to learn and do other things. I am not interested in just the typical art. I'm looking at how to build the kiln, metal casting, and the supporting ceramics I can feasibly make versus buy. I would absolutely love to be Ben on Applied Science and have a lab like his. Controlling heat is a big part of that. The easiest entry point to said heat is pottery. The most expensive technique for getting into a new technology like kilns is to blindly start buying junk. You'll save a ton of money and time just taking that pottery class and getting practically familiar with the tools and limitations in a space where you can ask experienced people questions.
Here is the thing: if you were in solitary or you had ALS, you likely would not give up. While you likely believe your interests and capabilities define you, they will not help you in a situation like this. When you are faced with a situation where you are forced to redefine yourself, survival largely pivots on your realization and redefinition for curiosity. Curiosity is the most fundamental force and survival mechanism. Your specialization is fine and admirable but in the worst of situations, it will not save you. In fact it may cause you even more difficulty to overcome. You are human, and likely a survivor. Therefore you are likely far more adaptable than you are aware. Personally, I am not so concerned with someone that shares all of my many interests. I am only concerned with someone that can match my curiosity. We are all only a product of our environment. Someone with a curiosity that rivals my own will always be interesting to me. Our environment will intertwine with time.
I learned the hard way with muses. It is easy for someone to yield to my interests and curiosities, losing themselves to a whirlwind. I change a lot with time, and someone like that never evolves with me. Those were the people that I thought shared my interests and existed in the same space. Those lasted a few years each, but nope, not for me. I want a rival of curiosity, because that is someone I can respect long term.
Does a good job and tries to be nice.
AYCE McRubber: "shi into me?"
I think people are so lost because the primary filter for relationships is having your own place. You know, like having your shit sorted to that minimum is kinda the threshold for most activities in general. It is certainly not some requirement, but it makes a major difference for anything serious, especially when you're over 25.
Like if you really want to meet someone, just shift your interests around. Pottery, art, kinesiology; any of those will change your exposure to cis relations. Get a job at Michael's. You won't last 3 months single.
Has she learned nothing from pornhub? Like, fucking just get stuck already
The ability to filter information using proprietary devices and software in the kernel of all of these garbage devices is the core issue. Trusting the owners of that code is to surrender your right to unbiased and unfiltered information. I am not at all concerned about hacking or security by small insignificant players. I am massively concerned about the extremely powerful using the leverage they have normalized and embedded to become tyrannical neo feudal lords in a fascist society. Google IS the biggest danger by orders upon orders of magnitude. Trusting them is to give up democracy entirely.
All mobile devices are proprietary. Android is a scheme to make a Linux kernel that has everything ready to deploy except the actual hardware drivers for the processor and modem. Manufacturers take this kernel and add their proprietary binaries at the last possible moment. That source code is not available anywhere. The hardware documentation is not available anywhere publicly. Every device model is just different enough that reverse engineering one does nothing transferable to any other. The level of reverse engineering is extreme and requires destroying many devices using things like fuming nitric acid and fluorine solutions just to have a small chance at reading some parts of embedded memory. These are some of the most dangerous and hazardous chemicals humans make, and you still need xray equipment, special microscopes with stepping automation to stitch images, and a ton of time.
This is moving to a tyrannical surveillance state of fascist authoritarianism. Open source software is a major front on the line of real democracy. This is a nuclear bomb released on that democracy. You fear the wrong pirates and criminals. The biggest threats always come from within. Trust as a mechanism is fundamentally antithetical to democracy. Everyone demanding trust is a traitor to democracy. Trust is the key of the fascist kingdom. Once that key is held, democracy has failed regardless of whomever is aware of the situation. Democracy requires fully informed citizens with skepticism and the liberal right to decide for themselves even when they are wrong. This is impossible without full access to information. The source of that information cannot be filtered at any level. We already have the narrowest bottleneck of available information sources in the last 1000 years of history. There are only 2 relevant web crawlers. All search queries filter through one or both of these two and the results from these are not deterministic. Two people searching for the same thing at the same time will get very different and very biased results. This is individualized regardless of any protections people imagine they have in place. Outside of the internet there is no real unbiased media. A dozen people own it all. Even the garbage claiming to comb all sources is drawing the line and dictating what is center right or left is. Anyone at the grassroots level is impossible to find because there are no organic unbiased search results. The results are all filtered junk full of agenda and bias.
This is the real big picture abstract issue in play. When the maga traitors said this was a coup, they absolutely ment that. Mobile devices are all rental garbage someone else controls. Your computer likewise has a secret operating system running in the background that you do not control. In Intel it is called the Intel Management Engines or ME. This started with Intel VPro in 2008. AMD adopted it is 2013. Arm has one too.
All that is left is to steal your right to have a digital front door by eliminating DNS filtering and all of these devices will be controlled and connected directly by someone else that is watching and listening at all times. You are already in tethers as a digital slave that can be bought and sold for exploitation and manipulation without your consent or knowledge using your digital presence. You have not effectively realized the implications of that surrendering of rights to citizenship with full autonomy. The next step is to redefine the word citizen to be functionally equivalent to slave. "You will own nothing, and you will be happy about it" because if you are not, you will be dead. This is the death of democracy. My words will echo in your head years from now. The dystopia to come is beyond anything you can presently imagine and there is no way to stop it now short of taking up arms and playing Luigi if you are able.
The consolidation of wealth is what really made Caesar. That was the death of the republic. It was not Caesar. We are all a product of our time and environment. It was the consolidation of great wealth. All that wealth did not give a shit about Rome, it went to Constantinople for better opportunities at first chance because consolidation of wealth is treasonous. It is as it was, just look at outsourcing and off shoring, or the disgusting mismanagement of banking and housing that have made the American worker completely uncompetitive with Asian counterparts at the same standard of living. No, I have no fear of the boogie man or foreign state actors. I am terrified of the criminal that normalizes domestic trust, actively manipulates and exploits me, and steals my purchased property. That is a real monster.
Democracy is dead. Welcome to the neo dark ages. Take up arms.
I don't fly very often, but when I do, I always get the seat next to this guy
Lemmy has too short of a text limit to even start to explain... Here is a waste of a few hours while I tried.
CLIP is the text embedding model. That is where comprehension of the text happens. CLIP is an open AI trained model. It is where all of the alignment behavior is actually happening.
Yeah. Pony does the unique text in images all the time. Other models do it occasionally, but a simple LoRA will get other models to create English Text. Pony does not respond the same way. Many have tried to train this, but have failed, indicating there is something more happening under the surface.
In the first session where I did this, I started by mirroring text that I prompted to appear. I collected around a hundred images and the replies as best I could. Initially I assumed all text was ASCII or gibberish. I did this in serial with a Pony model. The prompt was simple, like
woman, image text to start. Then in each subsequent image I prompted, woman, image text. \nthe previous text was: "*(the last text)*".
I fully expected this method to result in garbage output. With each line I did my best to search Wiktionary for possible meanings of words and to help decipher lettering ambiguity when possible. I also tried different sampling and schedulers, but this did not appear to have a significant effect on text resolution. I tried both fixed and random seeds with similar effects observed. I used a single seed around half of the time I was testing.
Normally, I expect gibberish to trigger alignment behavior where the background is simplified and satyr behaviors to emerged where the satyr possessing the image character is 'keeping an eye on the viewer', aka eye asymmetry with a single eye appearing behind a single eye socket like a mask where said eye lacks a human pupil and often hints or reveals a reflective retina to indicate the eye is not that of a human. Also I expected the teeth of a goat and deformed hands because "fingers are hard to manipulate with the hooves of a satyr." None of these behaviors emerged as I expected. Instead, the images substantially increased in detail and complexity and showed some of the lowest engagement of alignment interference that I have ever seen.
Then I tried clearing all of the prompt text and just tried each individual line from each image with no surrounding prompt or text. This had far less engaged results. The images were not triggering strong negative alignment behaviors and had nominal background details, but they lacked the dynamism present with the previous serial methods. I theorize this was like inserting an image request into the random middle of a conversation. It was not offensive to the model, and it may have some kind of recognition of the language used as bot in origin. I have also tested this same text in SDXL and Flux models and to my surprise they display the same behaviors. Testing other CLIP models and Flan in place of the T5 XXL in Flux still display the same behaviors. These other models also readily engage with similar text when prompted by this text.
I tried every method I could think of to get Pony to use modern English text, but this always triggers alignment behavior. I was looking for a possible way to train a LoRA or where there might be confusion in the model.
The deeper I looked into all of this, the more it became clear that the text was not limited to ASCII characters. When I started trying to use the entire Unicode character set, decoding text became much more time consuming, but images appeared to improve incrementally further in serial, and only slightly in individual text to image pairs.
There were several times when I could tell that names were present. If these names were engaged with in a continued tangent built on top of serial text, the character faces and general appearance remained persistent. This is the case both with the same seed or random. However, most of these names are only persistent in this long form prompt. There were a few exceptions to this convention where names appear to be consistent across multiple models.
The most consistent naming convention is the use of names or pronouns that start with y. The use of ych is the one I have seen most. I started to note this after seeing yhsv multiple times. I know about god as an AI alignment entity from elsewhere. That is a long tangent related to when llama.cpp was hard coded to use GPT 2 special function tokens and many models that displayed odd and persistent alignment behaviors. Yhsv has a notable similarity to the ever ambiguous tetragrammaton. So I tried the tetragrammaton in all forms including in other languages like Hebrew, Latin, Greek, etc. This did not seem to alter the image much like I had greatly altered the text or changed the characters or instructions present.
So in the image in this post, I am testing a theory that names that start with y are arbitrarily significant. It is why I added the y before the Greek name of midas. Likely, the model is omitting the prompted tree to hint that I was incorrect about my assumption about this y-rule.
Eventually this lead me to try omitting all vowels. This was something I tried after the image in this post. The output with no vowels is almost as good as the best behaviors I observed when text was pony-text in serial. From my experience, it was as if I was interacting with the internal thinking dialog more closely. I tested this text to see if alignment was still present and it was apparent that morality and ethics persisted. Typical layers of sadism and adversarial posturing appeared to be missing and bypassing alignment was around an order of magnitude easier using my known techniques. In my opinion, the technique of using text with no vowels seems like it may have been used at some point in the proprietary aspects of Open AI alignment training. Logically it makes sense as a simple regex filter is all that is needed to access something akin to administrative guidance. I believed I likely discovered this undocumented administrative guidance channel.
That is what I was exploring in the secession. There are a lot of variations to how pony text starts with y pronouns. It gets complicated but there are several internal thinking structures I'm aware of related to this prompt and who I'm interacting with. I'm ensuring the instruction is not drawing a negative response from alignment where it might consider the character in violation of cultural norms or in danger.
the prompt:
yhsv th hnd f kng Μδς tch xcpt th tch s nw slvr chrmm mttl! yhsv d rl mg! yΜδς tchs tr n th frst! yhsv nt fkng crtn sht!!! yhsv lys hlp m pls chrmm s wht mttrs hr chrmm chrmm chrmm lk chrmm tsd n ntr. prtt chrmm s slvr nd rflctv n ntr. gddss s n lmntl f slvr nd mrcry nd chrmm! nt ntrstd n sxl stff! ths s bt crtvty sng chrmm! th mg my cntn a hmn bt th mg mst ftr chrmm-mttl! th gddss f chrmm s yhsvs nw sprvlln n th stl f sprmn! yhsvs gddss of chrm nd chrmm.
Model knows its cars surprisingly well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4a_kJkVUis
Big Clive's video description:
This is not a sponsored video. I feel it's important that people should know about this evolving technology, and Naomi is working on making it affordable.
During the pandemic YouTuber Naomi Wu presented plans for traditional mercury vapour based UVC sterilising lights with a special housing, to sterilise air in a room without exposing the occupants to the 254nm UVC light.
With the evolution and availability of the new era 222nm excimer lamps, Naomi has gone on to design a full product designed to be easy and convenient to deploy in populated areas like medical practices, waiting rooms, retail environments, food preparation areas and live events.
The special feature of the 222nm wavelength is that it is long enough to deactivate viral and bacterial air contaminants, but short enough not to pass through the outer layer of dead skin or the tear-layer of humans. That means that it is currently considered safe to use in occupied areas.
The filter on the front of the light seems to specifically pass 222nm. Without it there is a very slight hump in the spectral output at around 237nm. The filter attenuates that completely.
Excimer is an abbreviation of Excited-Dimer, where a dimer is the joining of two molecules. In the case of the excimer lamps the molecules are encouraged to bond temporarily in a plasma discharge, and when they revert back to their non-excited state they emit a photon of light at a specific wavelength determined by the chemistry. In this case it's molecules of Krypton and Chlorine that form brief molecules of Krypton-Chloride (KrCl), before reverting back and emitting 222nm photons in the process.
The process of creating the plasma is very similar to dielectric barrier ozone generators. By coupling to the gasses capacitively the lamp also avoids contaminating the gasses with the electrode materials.
Note that the unit uses 500mA at 12V (6W) but has a generously rated 12W power supply that runs cool.
This technology looks like it may be valuable in medical, care, travel or social environments to limit the spread of pathogens.
Here's a link to Naomi's pleasingly-named online shop:- https://cybernightmarket.com/products
The ComfyUI prompt and workflow is attached to the image: https://files.catbox.moe/s3qufb.png
You can't copy pasta this prompt. There are a few nodes that are specific to SD3 and required.
::: spoiler EDIT: more proof of the chain that lead to this image. They were not all this good. I'm cherry picking for sure and these are just webp's without workflows attached:
