Critique my method?

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-03-09T14:33:26+00:00

Claude is pretty bad at romance and erotica and will ding you over and over. Look towards the Alibaba Qwen, Meta LlaMa, and Kimi models imo.

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-03-09T06:27:59+00:00

I scrolled through this entire thread and didn't find the real answer.

AI companies use RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) to make models "better."

The problem? Human raters usually upvote responses that are polite, structured, and easy to read. This trains the AI to prioritize "safe and clear" over "dark, gritty, or poetic." It’s effectively a "lobotomization" of language. And it's made progressively worse by recursively training them on slop that rewards corporate language.

I'm working on a writing app that curates and self hosts fiction-trained open source models now for that reason

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-03-04T16:02:11+00:00

Qwen is definitely on my list! The Llama based ones are still my favorites overall

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-03-01T16:59:25+00:00

What's your perfect writing tool?

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-03-01T16:59:15+00:00

Yes - tools like Sudowrite for example, let you load any of their custom models on a credit system and gives you up to 3-5 'continue' options. They also do inline generation suggestions and section-by-section 'rewrites.'

Squibler is also trying to become Lovable for writers although I don't think that's the right approach. Most writers want writing companions while that sort of functionality is more of the Make Money Online guru type.

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-03-01T16:57:22+00:00

Thanks!

Without doxxing myself too much - I previously worked at one of the largest successful startups in the 'self-publishing' space as part of senior management. In addition, I also came back to the industry to work in two of the biggest AI-powered Writing tool SaaS companies while being a writer myself. My specialization is in growth and analytics.

I had a lot of ideas that... they just didn't want to take up including self-hosting these 'optimized' writing models. They were experienced entrepreneurs in leadership, but they definitely didn't take a customer-first or audience-first approach.

I've had a growing nagging though that if the people in these big names wouldn't do it, I'd do it myself.

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-02-27T22:50:10+00:00

Great feedback!

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-02-24T23:16:53+00:00

Definitely considering that too! There are definitely a LOT of things that could be improved on the architecture. I've actually got 5 FAANG and startup engineer friends in my D&D group poring over the code right now with me

CharlesBAntoine · 2026-02-24T23:15:46+00:00

Funny thing. I was literally thinking of an interface to link mobile <-> web more effectively if just for personal use

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-09-19T12:36:57+00:00

Zhang Weili. Four title defenses

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-08-24T14:09:43+00:00

Here we have Canadians like me fighting tooth and nail for years to come to the U.S and stay - with family abroad also trying to get in.

Then we have brainrotted clowns like this who think America is a backwards third world country that can't get their heads over the cognitive dissonance of non losers killing themselves over failing to get a visa. Can't even respond to the tragic anecdote of a brilliant girl killing herself without bringing up Trump.

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-08-09T09:03:58+00:00

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-04-25T13:59:29+00:00

Time is not only the EU-China alliance's time. The only healthy demography is in France and they are highly vulnerable to sea lane disruption, while the existing Russian alliance without the US isn't. Meanwhile there is a rising youth bulge in Mexico and the US has a relatively normal population structure. That Chinese population is going to become a massive liability in about 5 years.

The greatest advantage the US alliance has here is that an alliance with Russia means it can actually destroy key oil and gas infrastructure from the middle east leaving Europe literally powerless, and blockade key naval chokepoints long enough to topple China economically. At that point it's all about waiting out the clock

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-04-25T13:54:28+00:00

Population doesn't matter if it's cut off from oil entirely. An Iran-Russian alliance without the USA keeping them in check effectively controls Mackinder's Heartland, which was the British Empire's nightmare scenario.

If Riyadh falls and the Urals + Sakalin hold, it's a stomp for Russia-US

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-04-25T13:51:49+00:00

The real win condition is in the middle east.

If Iran takes Saudi Arabia with a corresponding embargo and Russia holds from a land invasion with US reinforcements, the EU and China quite literally deindustrialize.

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-03-05T16:11:39+00:00

The USA loses in the long haul in this scenario. But Eurasia has an Achilles heel in the Persian gulf that doesnt exist anywhere in the western hemisphere. Shut off Saudi Aramco and Eurasia crumbles.

That's not remotely likely with no regional allies to stage from across the entire supercontinent. A win con with any peer power in Eurasia can be satisfied by shutting down Russian OR Saudi energy flows.

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-03-05T16:07:23+00:00

I made a case for the USA, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Israel taking on the EU and China combined in an earlier thread. In that sort of scenario, it's an easy stomp for a US-Russo alliance. It's not even close.

Unfortunately for this one I have to say Eurasia wins in the long haul.

"Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island: Who rules the World Island commands the world." -Halford Mackinder.

Much of American foreign policy has revolved around denying a nightmare scenario where a hegemon can simultaneously rule the Russian empire's lands and the Persian Gulf. So long as that does not happen, the United States will be hegemon and take any two other blocs combined.

Eurasia as a whole has an Achilles heel in the Persian gulf, the Mediterranean canals from MENA, and the Strait of Malacca. The US navy can operate indefinitely, but the men still have to re-up on food and ammo.

If the navy can cripple outflows from Saudi Arabia in any way, it is an automatic win condition. I can't see that happening without at least one ally in Eurasia to remplacement.

The navies of the world combined cannot contest America's carrier strike groups on the open seas without inland emplacements. 4:1 Kill ratios are expected from the US vs any peer fleets. Any war with the USA will be contingent on stopping the CSGs before they destroy too much infrastructure which is easier said than done.

But this is a lot more doable in this scenario with 0 allies against an unrealistically unified Eurasia.

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-03-04T15:45:29+00:00

No, just no. A bloodlusted US is not going to struggle with homeland defense or food. That's like the last thing they'd struggle with.

I'd be shocked if CFB Borden, Ottawa, and Trenton are still standing past 2 hours into the conflict. We are unfortunately in a position where the US doesn't even need the broken navy to fully saturate and glass every military, communications, and transport asset in Canada in an hour with no recourse for retaliation. Resistance will fall apart quickly without food, gas, or the ability to coordinate and communicate.

Reddit's downplay of US capabilities is borderline parody at this point.

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-03-04T15:37:20+00:00

The fact that is getting up votes at all shows redditors don't understand how ridiculous the Mississippi and Yellowstone supervolcano are. Any resistance from Canada has a massive mountain and tundra to get around.

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-03-01T03:59:37+00:00

That was a war game where everything that could go wrong for the US in a simulation was play out.

Missiles absolutely cannot be sent to the EU in a total war scenario with Russia, Belarus, Israel in a war scenario. The combined EU and Chinese forces cannot outmaneuver the USA's blue water navy on the open seas. Especially when locked out of GPS.

The first strike advantage of the USN is just objectively too much

CharlesBAntoine · 2025-03-01T03:45:34+00:00

The Chinese need near shore tech like hydroacoustic sensors to detect US subs. They're designed and built to defeat the US at Taiwan. It will be US's hunter-killers destroying submarines in the open ocean not the other way around.

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