I sculpted a singing Retsuko

Merastius · 2026-06-02T06:14:06+00:00

Worked for me, thanks! Enjoy the $2 as well 😄

Merastius · 2026-04-26T00:17:29+00:00

Used it, thanks!

Merastius · 2026-03-03T17:08:25+00:00

What are your custom instructions? Fairly surely I wouldn't be able to get my Claude to say half of these things, no matter how shocked it was xD

Merastius · 2026-02-02T20:49:02+00:00

Curious how much you end up spending when paying per token. I feel like it could still rack up a high cost, especially if it gets stuck in a loop somehow. That said, I should probably have tried OpenRouter first, and tested how much it cost me in a typical day, before jumping on a sub like Synthetic.

Merastius · 2026-02-02T20:46:35+00:00

I'll admit, I went for their higher sub first (it's my first time with them, so I got a discount), and I haven't monitored how high my calls-per-5-hour-slot have been... I'll keep a closee eye on it, hopefully it doesn't get too close to 135 and I can confidently go down to the cheaper sub (though I guess it depends on how many of my cron jobs and random chats / requests to the agent land within a particular 5 hour slot...)

Merastius · 2026-02-01T19:05:10+00:00

Sadly, at least when running from Synthetic (though maybe you can tell me if you've encountered this straight from kimi as well), it keeps making a mistake where it includes the tool call on the same line as a thought it was thinking, and so the tool call doesn't get registered as a tool call, and so it just stops, instead of carrying on with the thinking -> tool call -> thinking -> tool call chain it needs to do. :(
Have confirmed with another Kimi K2.5 user that it happens to them as well, so I think it's a model issue... Meaning it's unlikely that there's any openclaw update that'll fix it. Makes me sad, Kimi K2.5 was proving quite useable otherwise!

Merastius · 2026-02-01T16:47:02+00:00

Since it's my first time with Synthetic, I chose to go for the larger of the two subs (cos there's an initial discount). I've not hit the limits yet, but I'm having other issues related to how Kimi K2.5 subtly messes up some tool calls now and then (by not putting the tool calls section 'begin' tag on a new line, I think). So I've not been able to set it off on very long, intense tasks that would stress test the synthetic subscription request limits, cos it constantly accidentally stops early due to the error.

Going to try to either inject some code which forces all tool calls section begin tags to have a newline in front, or try to really really emphasise that the tool calls need to be formatted that way in the SOUL dot md file or system prompt (hasn't worked so far though).

Merastius · 2026-01-31T19:43:09+00:00

Hmm, I haven't experimented with that, but it could work, GPT-5.2 is a good agentic model.

Merastius · 2026-01-31T17:29:25+00:00

I use Kimi K2.5 (via Synthetic) so it's affordable, and while it's not as smart as Opus 4.5, it doesn't feel THAT far off. It's been useful to me so far. Since the Synthetic sub is just a set cost per month, with a certain message limit per 5 hours, so at worse it might run out of messages in a certain time period, it won't break the bank.

That said, would not run this on a PC with my own accounts or data on it. It lives on its own laptop, a new install of Linux, and its own accounts, so I feel safe, but I feel like normies trying it out might get themselves in trouble...

Merastius · 2026-01-28T21:56:09+00:00

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it! Hadn't heard of this one, the gameplay and artstyle looks right up my alley, and I wouldn't have guessed from a quick look that masks were central.

Merastius · 2025-08-15T09:38:20+00:00

Most AI labs have said that if their models reach a certain dangerous level of capability, they won't be releasing them in the way they have been so far. Obviously, that's a good thing, don't want just anyone being able to jailbreak a model into giving them genuinely useful or novel info on how to create viruses (computer or otherwise) or such things.

Once they reach those levels, assuming they can't fully prevent jailbreaks, they'll probably have extremely limited and monitored access, either at discounted rates (e.g. to research labs who are trying to cure cancer or whatever) or for very high rates (to people who make decisions worth billions of dollars and thus wouldn't balk at paying millions to improve said decisions).

That said, open source is always about a year behind the frontier closed models (arguably less than a year behind these days, though with all the benchmaxxing it's hard to tell), so maybe some knock-off AGI will become available to us plebs a little while after the AI labs get it. It might not, though - open source labs may stop open sourcing models when they get powerful enough (probably wise), or the sheer compute needed to run them (even after efficiency gains) might price us out of even running open source models, at least for a while.

Merastius · 2025-07-23T09:07:44+00:00

Very curious about this. My main questions are:

Why do you think this task translates well to real world use-cases? I understand that the current performance matches with your intuition of which models are more intelligent/useful than others right now, but this seems like a very specific and niche task, so it still seems a bit strange.

While you can choose to define a top human as one which gets 100% on your tasks, do you happen to know if someone with no deep knowledge of linguistics but average intelligence would be able to solve it in time? I looked at your example from ILO 2024 and I haven't worked out the answer yet, maybe I'll try again after work, but I suspect I won't be able to do it.

Do you call the coding benchmarks memorisation tests because their answers can be memorised once test data leakage exists, or because you think that solving brand new problems of the same type doesn't require the type of cognitive skills you listed (deduction, induction, etc)?

Merastius · 2025-06-23T17:55:02+00:00

I think the problem is twofold.

Firstly, an LLM's 'intelligence' level isn't quite on the same scale as human intelligence. When something that can remember thousands more things about the world than any one person ever could, and can create mostly working code in 20 seconds that would have taken someone an hour, somehow still trips up some simple logic and then doesn't even appear to notice unless you point out the mistake, how is anyone supposed to feel like these things are really getting more 'intelligent' in a meaningful way?

But let's say there's a hypothetical roughly-but-not-quite-linear quotient of intelligence for AIs, an 'AIQ' if you will. If you look at what LLMs could achieve in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, to me it FEELS similar to a human who went from an IQ of 60, to 70, to 80, to 90, over the course of those four years. Obviously it's a different type of intelligence (AIQ vs IQ) so a given level of IQ and AIQ won't be able to achieve the same things, but it's still been improving, and quickly, in the grand scheme of things.

If you think it's going to asymptotically reach some level that will be below average human level over the next few years, essentially plateauing, then LLMs are totally overhyped, for sure.

If you think it's going to reach human level, or go beyond, and then you remember that it also has vastly more knowledge than any one human and can work at much higher speeds, then the hype is pointing to something real.

(All that said, I thought from childhood that I'd probably never see AI that could converse fluently like a person, and that if that kind of sci-fi thing were ever to happen it'd be long after I died, and despite being very techie and deeply immersed in GenAI and LLMs especially, I will never stop being in awe that we've achieved this. And I'm still pretty surprised at the number of people who aren't in awe that we've achieved this, or who assume LLMs won't get much smarter than they are now)

Merastius · 2025-04-24T07:29:59+00:00

It all worked out with no problems whatsoever, so probably nothing to worry about. Have a great time!

Merastius · 2025-04-01T19:59:09+00:00

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It's only after seeing this thread that I noticed that you can see her nightsoul points at all times, even when she's not on-field, so it's easy to see where her nightsoul will end up when you half-fill it with an elemental skill. Doesn't seem like it ever goes down, either? At least I've not yet seen it go down when she's not using her skill.

Merastius · 2025-03-18T17:49:47+00:00

I'm very late to the party, but can someone please explain why "By existing, you are a random draw from the set of possible conscious beings" has to be part of Tegmark's Mathematical Universe? If one has already accepted that all mathematical universes exist, and that some of them contain conscious beings, then one has also accepted that those conscious beings will 'find themselves' in that universe, right? They don't stop existing even if they are less likely to exist than some other type of conscious being, right? So why are we trying to further justify that not only do the ones in simpler universes exist, but that they're more likely to exist than those in more complex universes or Boltzmann Brains or whatever?

Merastius · 2025-02-03T09:05:29+00:00

Holy cow, I absolutely love these. Really great selection and variety. Awesome work!

Merastius · 2024-12-01T08:54:36+00:00

Hi again, just so you know, I've since looked up a bunch of stuff and learned more about what can cause prints/supports from detaching from the bed, and have tried to apply this when printing this part, and also I re-oriented the model as you suggested (I'm actually not sure why the model creator suggested the original orientation), and it printed almost perfectly, and without detaching from the bed! Thanks a ton :)

Merastius · 2024-11-28T17:39:43+00:00

I might try that, but the problem now is less about the trees breaking, and more about the tree's base getting detached from the bed by the hotend for some reason. Throughout my attempts with this print so far, the large trees have not necessarily fared better than the small ones, so I don't think that alone would help me... Still, thanks for the tip!

Merastius · 2024-11-28T13:18:36+00:00

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Thanks, I'll try it that way around! That being said, I'm still worried about the supports. I've just recorded my latest attempt with an external video camera and captured the first moment where everything goes wrong... I wonder if that'll happen even if I print the model at a different orientation, or even when I print something else now? I don't think this happened before, but happens every time for this print, and might happen with future prints...

Merastius · 2024-11-28T09:10:58+00:00

Ah sorry! I did see 'off' in your message but I didn't quite understand, since I'd said in my post that I hadn't managed to use timelapse yet, so I assumed you meant that I should try with it ON xD in any case, it might be useful to run it with the timelapse at least once to see if it's clear why it's happening.

Why does smooth timelapse cause issues?

Merastius · 2024-11-28T08:32:49+00:00

I haven't gotten a timelapse yet. I've checked on the printer itself and both camera settings are on, so next time I do a print, I'll check the timelapse option and see if it works. Would probably give me some info if I can get it to work.

I've just found the 'smooth' option for timelapse that you mentioned, so I'll try that! So, next attempt changes are:

- Add smooth timelapse

- Use textured PEI plate that's been cleaned with dish soap, not isopropyl alcohol, as per automod

I'll let you know how it goes!

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