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Honestly this reminds me a lot of the rituals in Warhammer 40k and the way to deal with "machine spirits". Absurd rituals that shouldn't work on machines they

• phil917 2y ago
  Oh my god I don't know why I never made that connection until now. That is exactly what it feels like!
  • wruza 2y ago
    Same with SD prompts and especially Lora training. The best thing you can do is to count any piece of information as clueless babbling best case and any result as a temporary niche result best case. Because too much depends on randomness and accidental sources of randomness and in it there are whole pockets of multidimensional stability, just until you cross some invisible border you couldn’t even comprehend. This is a natural religion fuel. So when you read any turorial, guide, best practice, etc, and there is not a hard proof of hours of thorough testing behind every claim, you may freely consider most claims religious, because they are.
    • Iulioh 2y ago
      I even remember the fact that a prompt for a CGPT app had a spelling mistake and some people were wondering if that spelling mistake performed better than the right spelling
• Terr_ 2y ago
  A combination of Plato's allegory of the cave and statistical whack-a-mole: The model only sees token correlations, and if you are lucky the things you type become shadow tokens that change the weights just enough that whatever you didn't want isn't as statistically likely to come out.