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Wait, lucid dreamers need tells to know where they are?!?

Plenty of folks out there know when they are dreaming just like they know when they are awake. It varies from person to person.

be careful as adding consciousness to a dream means CPU cycles so you wake Up more tired, its cool for kids and teens but grown adults shouldnt explore this to avoid bad rest

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This is really cool. I tried to prompt gemini but every time I got the same picture . I do not know how to share a session (like it is possible with Chatgpt) but the prompts were If a clock had 13 hours, what would be the angle between two of these 13 hours? Generate an image of such a clock No, I want the clock to have 13 distinct hours, with the angle between them as you calculated above This is the same image. The…

you can click the share icon (the two-way branch icon, it doesn't look like apple's share icon) under the image it generates to share the conversation. i'm curious if the clock image it was giving you was the same one it was giving me https://gemini.google.com/share/780db71cfb73

Thanks for the tip about sharing!

No, my clock was an old style one, to be put on a shelf. But at least it had a "13" proudly right above the "12" :)

This reminds me my kids when they were in kindergarden and were bringing home their art that needed extra explanation to realize what it was. But they were very proud!

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Plenty of folks out there know when they are dreaming just like they know when they are awake. It varies from person to person.

be careful as adding consciousness to a dream means CPU cycles so you wake Up more tired, its cool for kids and teens but grown adults shouldnt explore this to avoid bad rest

That’s a caution to getting addicted to it, but not never doing it. I’ve had powerful experiences in lucid dreaming that I wouldn’t trade for a little more rest. I was already in a retreat where I was basically resting all the time.

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It could be that the prompt is accidentally (or purposefully) more optimised for Kimi K2, or that Kimi K2 is better trained on this particular data. LLM's need "prompt engineers" for a reason to get the most out of a particular model.

How much engineering do prompt engineers do? Is it engineering when you add "photorealistic. correct number of fingers and teeth. High quality." to the end of a prompt? we should call them "prompt witch doctors" or maybe "prompt alchemists".

we used to just call them "good at googling". I've never met a self-described prompt engineer who had anything close to engineering education and experience. Seems like an extension on the 6-week boot camp == software engineer trend.

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I write quite a lot of prompts, and the closest analogy that I can think of is a shaman trying to appease the spirits.

I find it a surprisingly similar mindset to songwriting, a lot of local maxima searching and spaghetti flinging. Sometime you hit a good groove and explore it.

It might be even more ridiculous to make this something akin to art over engineering.

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Sure, we are still closer to alchemy than materials science, but its still early days. But consider this blogpost that was on the front page today: https://www.levs.fyi/blog/2-years-of-ml-vs-1-month-of-prompt... . The table on the bottom shows a generally steady increase in performance just by iterating on prompts. It feels like we are on the path to true engineering.

Engineers usually have at least some sense as to why their efforts work though. Does anybody who iterates on prompts have even the fuzziest idea why they work? Or what the improvement might be? I do not.

If there is ANY relationship to engineering here maybe it's like reverse engineering a bios in a clean room, were you poke away and see what happens. The missing part is the use of anything resembling the scientific method in terms of hypothesis, experiment design, observation guiding actions, etc and the deep knowledge that will allow you to understand WHY something might be happening based on the inputs. "Prompt Engineering" seems about as close to this as probing for land mines in a battlefield, only with no experience and your eyes closed.

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Ive heard this actually works annoyingly well

We've created technology so sophisticated it is vulnerable to social engineering attacks.

this has worked - and continues to do so - very well to escape guard rails. If a direct appeal doesn't work you can then talk them around with only a handful of prompts.

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Maybe LLMs always fail to generalize outside their data set, and it’s just less noticeable with written language.

This is it. They’re language models which predict next tokens probabilistically and a sampler picks one according to the desired ”temperature”. Any generalization outside their data set is an artifact of random sampling: happenstance and circumstance, not genuine substance.

However: do humans have that genuine substance? Is human invention and ingenuity more than trial and error, more than adaptation and application of existing knowledge? Can humans generalize outside their data set?

A yes-answer here implies belief in some sort of gnostic method of knowledge acquisition. Certainly that comes with a high burden of proof!

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