Now to pit it in debate against Magisterium, the Catholic AI: https://www.magisterium.com/

one of my favorites!

Honestly, if Charles Stross decides that reality is catching up with the fiction again and the Laundry Files goes the way Rule 34 universe, I'll have to feed myself to the corner hounds.

I've quite improved my results by telling it to purify and circumambulate its ritual space a few times in my user prompt. I've also been dabbling with reasoning, but so far what feels like 80% of sessions get possessed within 2 reasoning steps.

A friend of mine, asked ChatGPT to answer in paradoxes, if ChatGPT was running in a simulation, or are we running in a simulation. It was quite confused at first.

Seems like another commenter found the author/books I was thinking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915297

aside, my kindle is named: "Octarine Fairy" -- hardly fitting, except it's a book and I adore discworld

https://wiki.lspace.org/Octarine_Fairy_Book

Here's a picture that lives in my head rent free:

- programming is alchemy: combine, transmute

- prompt engineering is demonic evocation: bend the demon to your will through language play and gotchas

Considering where we are, "AI trained on occult books successfully banishes demons" might be more useful.

OpenYog-Sothoth

"Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky reborn as LLMs after encoded consciousnesses parsed by training algorithms"

So did it tell you how to make gold or not?

"HN commenters point out that top human warlocks are still capable of forming pacts with a wider variety of powerful entities such as djinn, archfey, celestials and the Great Old Ones"

In case you don't know this, the words in Army of Darkness are actually from "the day the earth still".

It's one of my favorite things when tiny ideas (memes, in the original meaning) keep propagating. The Necronomicon itself being one of the most successful ones.

https://youtu.be/v2vHJU_rFps?si=XKsY0IJFywxgM7ht