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New comment by tangerine67g in "The Cypherpunk Library"

tangerine67g — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:19:23 +0000

nice work, interesting page

I don't think you need a pretty landing page and the content of https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/collection

could directly live under

https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/

it's a website with information and I really want to see the collection and information insteda of just a single headline with an animation

New comment by tangerine67g in "Purposefully Induced Psychosis (Pip): Hallucination as Imagination in LLMs"

tangerine67g — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:56:29 +0000

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely regarded as errors - outputs that deviate from factual accuracy. However, in creative or exploratory contexts, these "mistakes" may represent unexpected avenues for innovation. We introduce Purposefully Induced Psychosis (PIP), a novel approach that amplifies LLM hallucinations for imaginative tasks such as speculative fiction, interactive storytelling, and mixed-reality simulations. Drawing on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, where Pip's "madness" reveals profound insight, we reframe hallucinations as a source of computational imagination rather than a flaw. Our method fine-tunes LLMs to encourage speculative, metaphorical, and surreal outputs - hallucinations that are useful when factual accuracy is not the chief objective. Inspired by the consensual illusions of theater and stage magic, PIP situates these creative missteps in contexts where users willingly suspend disbelief, thereby transforming "errors" into catalysts for new ways of thinking. We discuss potential applications, design principles for ensuring user consent, preliminary observations, and implications for broader AI ethics and human-AI collaboration.

Purposefully Induced Psychosis (Pip): Hallucination as Imagination in LLMs

tangerine67g — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:56:29 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12012

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739401

Points: 4

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New comment by tangerine67g in "Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped"

tangerine67g — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:58:13 +0000

might making it open source so people can help you with implementing the suggested thing in your reddit thread?

New comment by tangerine67g in "What are the happiest jobs? What are the unhappiest? (2011)"

tangerine67g — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:03:36 +0000

it's over for me as a web dev