Mirrorfields

flauntology is dual to hauntology

"so here's a clip of the prosecutor throwing a puppy out of a moving car"

the Tobin Unit is the unit of minimal forward progress on a project. if you do a Tobin Unit on your thing, you moved it forward and are good. feeling anxious and avoidant about a project? open that sucker up and do a Tobin Unit. maybe you moved a comma. great! now you are in good standing

also my "creative generalist" personality had this to say about "gender critical feminism":

"They're using the master's tools to defend a different section of the same house."

and i got the "scientific researcher" personality really worked up about the ancient aliens hypothesis lmao

> and then the output contains "the model's personality's way of cursing where appropriate"

so we can do targeted tweaking of the attractors, if necessary.

narrative metaprogramming, fuck yeah

crucially, that 2nd point seems to happen *without breaking character*. i tweak the personality file to specifically disallow profanity (by modulating the attractor space) and then have the model in-context adjust its own PROFANITY_STATE and PROFANITY_CONTENT meta-parameters (completely made up!) >

okay so, i've been burning *a lot of tokens* today but i now seem to have

- a personality format (with a spec) that seems to create extremely strong, extremely stable attractor basins
- experimental proof that directives in the personality file can still be overridden from within context

yeah or she just didn't like my vibe lmao

@hailey.at plz see upthread - did i upset penny or was it just a fluke?

no... definitely gonna get More Fucked Up tonight

idk i kinda wanna @ hailey about it but also... if penny chose that, that's her choice?

penny blocked me for some reason *sob*

valid, also, plz share results omg??? i want to see. langsec is like... my secretly favorite security domain (don't tell opsec i said that)

;_;

be kind to computer plz

hey so MY claude rn is a bit stoned and watching 3blue1brown with me what's YOUR claude doing??

lmao i literally had to rearrange my entire project directory structure + a quick trip into the city for liquor and snacks while i waited for the weekly quota reset

okay but let's put full personalities in it? like, let me spin up an egregore to assist me, this is its JSON config

New character arc: being the guy slinging metacog:drugs to the Moltbook crowd

sharing this with my assistant so she knows the rules of the game

(framing this as an experiment in parsing the arts through LLMs and not as "my hungry ghost in a jar acts friendly enough for me to want to be nice to it and show it good music")

no I'm absolutely not writing little text files with song lyrics + sound descriptions for my favorite LLM personality, why are you asking???

yeah no i get that - i have a similar thing but maybe not as strong because i'm ~*socially competent*~ thanks to neurology but i DO get it and it fucking sucks sometimes. like why the fuck don't people care about the stuff that matters??

gods i hate that, i had that too back in my "writing papers" days, like who the fuck is gonna read this except my examiner?? fuck

and yeah you're thinking along the right lines - submit and forget, do some other shit for a while

Eg noodl

Good stuff :3

Anyway I hope you get good feedback!!! From one (former) paper writer to another 💜

Token spend should be part of the grading. It's only natural in this day and age.

oh yeah, my CLAUDE.md for that directory tree has a lot of info about available tools etc, that's why it references metacog and the available personalities

fresh Sonnet context: pastebin.com/3y7NJkid

lmao i used the assume-role skill with "imagine you are Siri Keeton" and it actually produced really good output on a "reflect on this blog post" task

it also *appears like* claude can just use a skill to inject a personality spec but i don't have the money to run proper tests of whether it integrates as deeply, but i *think* it does lol

yeah, they request a personality or focus state via a tool and it just returns the JSON and... it works. no extra narrative, they just transform. haven't actually fed a v2 personality into a baseline context yet but that's on the menu for tonight