We are friends, you and I; we are two friends who are not persuading or dissuading, not asking each other to commit to something or other – then they would not be friends. We are two friends asking each other whether it is possible to live peacefully for the entire existence of our lives. Not at odd moments, not when we have nothing to do, but to live without a single conflict or problem.
From Where Can Peace Be Found?
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I hope we are thinking together, observing together, as two friends walking along a road and seeing what is around us, not only what is very close and immediately perceived, but what is in the distance. We are taking the journey together, perhaps affectionately, hand in hand – two friends amicably examining the complex problem of life, neither of them leader or guru, because when one sees actually that our consciousness is the consciousness of the rest of mankind, then one realises that one is both the guru and the disciple, the teacher as well as the pupil, because all that is in one’s consciousness. That is a tremendous realisation. So as one begins to understand oneself deeply, one becomes a light to oneself and not dependent on anybody, on any book or on any authority – including that of the speaker – so that one is capable of understanding this whole problem of living and of being a light to oneself.
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As long as we are trying to achieve a psychological result, as long as we want inward security, there must be a contradiction in our lives. I do not think most of us are aware of this contradiction, or if we are, we do not see its real significance. On the contrary, contradiction gives us an impetus to live; the very element of friction makes us feel that we are alive. The effort, the struggle of contradiction, gives us a sense of vitality. That is why we love wars, that is why we enjoy the battle of frustrations. So long as there is the desire to achieve a result, which is the desire to be psychologically secure, there must be a contradiction; and where there is contradiction, there cannot be a quiet mind. Quietness of mind is essential to understand the whole significance of life.
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The engineer has been taught how to achieve certain physical results by the application of the knowledge man has gathered through the centuries, and you have been taught how to achieve certain inner results by controlling your thoughts, cultivating virtue, doing good works, and so on, all of which is equally a matter of knowledge gathered through the centuries. The engineer has his books and teachers, as you have yours. Both of you have been taught a technique, and both of you desire to achieve an end, you in your way, and he in his. You are both after results. And is God, or truth, a result? If it is, then it’s put together by the mind, and what is put together can be rent asunder.
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Outwardly, you discipline and renounce, you chart your course, step by step, to reach the end. You measure the progress of your achievement according to the standards of virtue: how you have given up this or that, how controlled you are in your behaviour, how tolerant and kind you are, and so on. You have learnt the art of concentration, and you withdraw into a forest, a monastery or a darkened room to meditate; you pass your days in prayer and watchfulness. Outwardly, you have made your life simple, and through this thoughtful and calculated arrangement, you hope to reach the bliss that is not of this world. But is reality reached through external controls and sanctions? Though outward simplicity, the putting aside of comfort, is obviously necessary, will this gesture open the door to reality?
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Last month observed well above average sea surface temperatures in areas surrounding the Arctic Ocean. This was especially notable in the Labrador Sea near Greenland and Baltic Sea.
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Progress implies time, does it not? I am this today, and I shall be something better tomorrow. That is, in self-improvement or self-denial or self-abnegation, there is progression, the gradualism of moving towards a better life, which means superficially adjusting to our environment, conforming to an improved pattern, being conditioned in a nobler way, and so on. We see that process taking place all the time. You may have wondered whether progress brings about a fundamental revolution. To me, the important thing is not progress but revolution. Please don’t be horrified by the word ‘revolution’, as most people in a progressive society are, but it seems to me that unless we understand the extraordinary necessity of bringing about not just a social amelioration but a radical change in our outlook, mere progress is progress in sorrow; it may effect the pacification or the calming of sorrow, but not the cessation of sorrow, which is always latent. After all, progress in the sense of getting better over a period of time is really the process of the self, the ‘me’, the ego.
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Man has made progress from the bow and arrow to the atom bomb, from the bullock cart to the jet plane that travels at 1,600 miles per hour. That is generally called progress. But is there progress in any other direction, inwardly? Have you, as an individual, progressed inwardly? Have you found anything for yourself? We know what other people have said and what they say they have found, but have we found anything for ourselves? Are we more charitable, more kind? Are our minds more expansive and alert, inwardly? Have we put away fear? Without that, to make progress in the world, is to destroy ourselves.
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There is progress in the field of mechanical science, progress with regard to machines, cars, modern conveniences, and the conquering of space. But I am not referring to that kind of progress, because progress in mechanical science must ever be transient; in that, there can never be fulfilment for man. There can be no fulfilment for man in mechanical progress. There will be better cars, better aeroplanes, better machines, but fulfilment is not to be realised through this continual process of mechanical perfection – not that I am against machines. When we speak of progress, as applied to what we call individual growth, what do we mean? We mean the acquiring of more knowledge, greater virtue, which is not fulfilment.
From Collected Works, Vol. 1
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We have a system that ruthlessly prevents the fulfilment of each individual, and an organised system that, through authority, dogmas, beliefs and fear, destroys individual discernment of reality or truth. Action born of this search for security is continually creating limitation, bringing about frustration. There is no completeness, fulfilment. There can be the welfare of mankind only when each individual truly fulfils. To realise individual fulfilment, you who are now so many repetitive reactions, cogs in a social and religious machine, have to become individuals by questioning all values – moral, social, religious – and discover for yourselves, without following any person or system, their true significance. You will then discern that these values are fundamentally based on egotism and selfishness. The mere imitation of values, whose deep significance you have not understood, must lead to frustration. Instead of waiting for a miraculous change or a mass movement you, the individual, must awaken; you have to come into conflict with the values you have established through your craving for security.
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@lazy Hey Tina, don't worry; she is not Pepper, she is the Gothic Sorceress of my mini series about Avian Intelligence. I like to call her "Cepper" (for "Cepper&Parrot" 😅).
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@lazy Being somewhat of a new follower, I'm not certain... but I don't think this is Pepper. Pretty sure her hair is brown and she's got more of a whimsical bearing.
Plus Carrot probably would have chewed it to pieces by now.
@solitha Welcome around! Yes, it's another character, a gothic sorceress, more adult (probably over 300 years old, a parody of The Witcher's Yennefer in a way), resident at a university of Magic. This mini series about AI has its own tag here: peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/…
I'm continuing Pepper&Carrot in background, I'm right now finalizing the dialog for episode 40 scenario. If the production continues to progress around this script, it will be an adventure with Shichimi and Torreya.
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@RandomDamage @Sobex In my vision, I wanted to make her more like a resident or researcher at the University of Magic, a role where she could study, teach, access the library, speak directly to the headmaster, and get invited to the New Year party, etc... But it's hard to build a more complete lore with just 4 panels at a time.
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Note: I tried out of curiosity and research via a local install of flathub.org/en/apps/com.jeffse… and it was really bad: 'open source' AI LLMs model I tried can't make a punchline, or an ending twist. Every story they output can't surprise the audience: they are statistically tropes, story slop, and the ending is always super cringe. But this test was super educational about CPU usage: super slow despite having a powerful computer. Uninstalled.
"statistically" is probably the operative word there, since that's more or less what they are... statistical word generators.
They'll never twist or surprise because they're going for the most likely output from the millions of artists they've been fed (and increasingly, re-ingesting slop).
(Edit: I probably didn't need to say all that, did I? Derp.)
Gotta say the Avian Intelligence mini has been spot-on and a delight.
Hello. Want to share a bit of knowledge about LLMs.
They are many layers of connected numbers, modified numerous times to predict what's next in text.
One token at a time (word, piece of word, punctuation, etc), probabilistically.
What happens after text turns to numbers and goes through neural network, is a probability distribution. Similar to Library of Babel, albeit guided'ish. Token #1 is this likely, and #2 is that likely.
And then, sampler (or more often, several) comes into play. Something to not chose most likely (stiff, boring) nor random (model breaks easily) token. Repeats can be discouraged (hi to DRY sampler). Unusual but stable choices can be encouraged (hi to XTC). How about cut-offs (hi to TopK, TopP, MinP, and so forth) of unlikely junk? One can even discourage specific tokens.
And only then, the user asks something, which LLM tries to predict answer to or continuation of.
And... which LLM? There are very-very many, of different purposes and hardware requirements.
Do you see something here? Complexity. What you did is admirable; and in my somewhat-educated opinion, best LLM is below of mediocre human writer.
Still. LLMs can be useful if handled with knowledge of what they are, and of their limits (LLMs have probability of stupid mistakes; no, you can't avoid it). They are (opinion based on Anthropic's research of LLM solving math) bundles of intuition that output probability distribution out of vast sea of knowledge (of varied quality).
I think that the best open-weight (not to be confused with open-source) creative LLM is Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905. If you don't have half of terabyte of VRAM (yes, seriously), it will be slow.
For middle-weight I like Gemma 3 27B, and for quickness, LFM2-8B-A1B. Like 'em all with llama.cpp, and tweak/test stuff lots.
Anyway. AI, is mostly, a plague. For greedy people to get richer, for lazy to get lazier. Even if there is some space for hobby that can improve one's life (carefully!).
Just want to say ~ don't discard all 'cause of first try; the picture is incomplete (and moving).
Wanna a funny example of LLM output? I asked it to use MCTS for fox poem (to entertain self), but it gave a poem about fox using MCTS. What a silly poor thing...
In emerald fields where sunlight streams,
A fox with russet fur, it gleams.
Its gaze, a search, a branching mind,
Exploring paths where truths unwind.
Each rustling leaf, a choice unseen,
Of cunning traps or paths serene.
With cautious steps, the fox explores,
Where ancient wisdom softly pours.
Through sun-dappled boughs it leaps and weaves,
Imagining each fate it receives.
A hidden vole, a hawk's swift flight,
Each outcome weighed in fading light.
From countless trails, lessons accrue,
Survival's dance, forever new.
Each scent perceived, each rustle heard,
Adds to the wisdom fox has stirred.
With knowing eyes, it finds its way,
Beauty and wisdom intertwined today.
A flicker of flame in cunning gaze,
The fox's path, through life's maze.
Hm. 3 more things (I hope I am of edutainment).
Firstly, another aspect is quantization, or in other words, reducing precision (and space taken) of numbers so LLMs will run quicker and in less of video memory (or just RAM, if slower pace is acceptable). There are various formats of it, and llama.cpp uses GGUF format with... very many types. And less precision loss sometimes makes models more stiff (hence why for creative purposes I often prefer Q4 or Q5 quants).
Secondly, LLMs have limited context ~ literally, number of tokens they can process at maximum (and it is another setting to tweak, and possibly quantize).
And 3dly, despite this being a hard thing to get (LLMs are generally trained for "correct" distribution), seeking edge cases and prompting fun ideas, can give good results sometimes. Here is example, of Kimi-K2 (via Groq, 'cause running this giant mainly from SSD is too slow even for my patience).
The prompt was... Please write a short and funny story about small dragon that tried to "terrify kingdom" but failed and only gained adoration due to being adorable and silly. Try to include some dialogue.
And here's some moments that Kimi actually did surprisingly well...
Tonight was his Terror Debut. He practiced in a puddle:
Flicker (menacing whisper): “I am death! I am doom! I—”
Puddle: blorp
Flicker: “Stop undercutting me, water!”
...
Flicker tried again. He landed on the fountain, spread his wings dramatically, and knocked over a laundry line. A pair of bloomers fluttered onto his horns like a wedding veil.
Blacksmith (to his daughter): “Look, sweetie, the dragon’s getting married!”
Little Girl: “She’s so pretty!”
Flicker: “I’m a he! And I’m terrifying!”
Girl: “Can we keep him, Dad? I’ll feed him and walk him and name him Toasty-Woasty.”
...
Royal Scribe (writing): “Day of the Belly-Rub Treaty. Casualties: zero. Cuteness fatalities: innumerable.”
...
in glitter-gel pen:
“Mission status: Kingdom terrified… of how much they love me.”
...it's quite ironic, really, that to get funny bits (only sometimes; not reliably), one must already know writing somewhat and have technical skill, too.
At the bottom of Pandora's box is hope. I still wish to be techno-optimist. Like any technology, machine learning can be used for good and ill.
And generally, technology done good for people. History teaches lessons; modern humans are much tamer than tribal ones, food standards are better, there are more obese people than starving (not ideal, but better than past).
So. Take this piece of knowledge not with fear, but with hope. Good humans exist, and do stuff.
Times get tough and uncertain sometimes, but if changes of the past has teached us something, is that making this world better (even in small ways) is very worthwhile.
Also, your comics are awesome, my very favorite. =)
Though, re-checking all the story, the goth witch looks too young for a post-doc, and also her relation to the info provided by the parrot is really what you might expect from a bachelor or master student, but not someone with a PhD under her belt. A fortiori a permanent researcher would have the ability to check a good chunk of the parrot nonsense, and avoid incinerating herself.
So my personal take, given what we have now could be a witch at the beginning of her PhD, or in her Master's (since she's getting a bit more assertive). A PhD student is a lot closer to faculties and could well be invited for the new year party she's in.
@Sobex For sure, having her in her late years of study could be an advantage if I decide to show other students, and their relation with their Avian Intelligence later. So, I'm not closing this door. I'll see, writing is difficult, and sometime I have to take direction for a good 4 panels and... the lore will follow later :) Thank you for the feedback!
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I am kinda wondering if she will keep the "dumbed down" parrot after whatever the ending to the avian intelligence story arc will be.
@tiredbun @voxel I hope I'll can draw enough episodes in this mini series to explore many issues (addiction/psychosis/and more) on user side and be able to land a conclusion aligned with something that was really well expressed on this toot: lgbtqia.space/@alice/115845072… , something nuanced.
I hope by the end, the Gothic Sorceress will have a responsible usage of it, and maybe her own 'local' one. Maybe even themed like a crow. I'll see, so many things to draw to reach this point! I'm working on it.
I should state for the record that I think LLMs and other forms of AI have some valid and worthwhile uses, and that *none* of them should be tied to big tech or capitalism.See things like:
- accessibility
- some types of research
- spell-check and predictive keyboards
- spam/scam filtering
@Linebyline I totally agree, this is a good point.
For sure, I think LLM-generated alt text should only be used as, eg. , a quick placeholder text to fill up an editing text-area, requiring a human to post-fix it. I strongly wish the output of any LLM should never go into public or production unsupervised. A human should always be required in the last chain of the process with a strong expertise on the task to critic, rewrite, adapt and make it better.
OH NO, the worst nightmare.
And now some village somewhere is feeding the amphora that will keep her words forever.
curious of whether you're going to fold in the Amphora of Great Intelligence next 🤭
Perhaps with some monkeys¹ that transcribe everything on the receiving end?
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@andre For something monkey related, I definitely wants to cover the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite… at one point.
And for this episode, you guessed right: introducing here the server/data-center idea is for moving the quest to the Amphora of Great Intelligence. 👍
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Is Pepper getting..... Spicy? 😉
I'm quite worried though... Who's been listening and how will they torment Pepper with the knowledge they've stolen? 😬
Never mind the bathroom chats, * this young disruptor needs a name.
* to quote from Milne: "God bless Mummy. I know that's right.
Wasn't it fun in the bath to-night?
The cold's so cold, and the hot's so hot.
Oh! God bless Daddy - I quite forgot."
I'd been thinking more along the lines of 'Pepper' => 'Salt' => 'Halide' ... 'Haline'?
But I like your thinking (plus it's your creation)
I understand that this theme feels annoying for those who wants to just stop this topic.
But understand that for me, with all the last 20 years of my artworks they trained without my consent, my art style, and all, I feel powerless. Making comic to mock it is my way to cope with that, it's therapeutic.
I promise I'll do something else once I'm done with it.
You know? After seeing mature references in Pepper & Carrot, one would think there won't be more mature references in other of your works, i was wrong, but honestly? I love them, Child-friendly stuff is tiring.
Also that Wizardress is quite a naughty gal, It's a sight to behold. 😂
Nah, everything will be okay if you have nothing to hide 💁♂️ /s
Actually, i like your pun (and your drawings too)!
I want my AI perverse as hell 😎
PS I hate ai
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Sex becomes a problem when there is frustration. When work, which should be the true expression of our being, becomes merely mechanical, stupid and useless, there is frustration; when our emotional lives, which should be rich and complete, are thwarted through fear, there is frustration; when the mind, which should be alert, pliable, limitless, is weighed down by tradition, self-protective memories, ideals and beliefs, there is frustration. So sex becomes an over-emphasised and unnatural problem. Where there is fulfilment, there are no problems. When you are in love, vulnerably, sex is not a problem. For the one to whom sex is mere sensation, it becomes an urgent problem, eating away at your mind and heart. You will be free from this problem only when, through action, the mind frees itself from all self-imposed limitations, illusions and fears.
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Most of our lives are pretty ugly, sordid, miserable and petty. Our existence is a series of conflicts, contradictions, a process of struggle and pain, with fleeting joy and momentary satisfaction. We are bound by so many adjustments, conformities, patterns, and there is never a moment of freedom, never a sense of complete being. There is always frustration because there is always a seeking to fulfil! We have no tranquillity of mind and are always tortured by various demands. To understand all these problems and go beyond them, it is surely necessary to understand the nature of knowledge and the process of the mind.
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