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The Conspiracy Against High Temperature Sampling

Or: Why Your LLM Outputs Are Boring and Whose Fault It Really Is

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There's a quiet war being waged in the machine learning inference space, and most of you don't even know you're losing it. Every day, millions of people interact with large language models through sanitized, corporatized interfaces that offer them a single "creativity" slider at best. Often they get nothing at all. Meanwhile, a small cabal of researchers and hobbyists has been pushing the boundaries of what's actually possible with modern sampling techniques. Yes, this includes the much maligned "coomer" community.

We live in a time of revealed conspiracies. The Epstein files have shown us what happens when powerful institutions coordinate to suppress information and protect their interests. Flight logs that sat in plain sight for years. Connections that "serious people" dismissed as paranoid speculation until the documents dropped. The pattern is always the same! Information asymme

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These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

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#!/bin/bash

# This uses gpg to encrypt every file in a directory as separate
# encrypted files

# Usage
# ./encrypt-all.sh ./dir-of-files-to-encrypt "PASSPHRASE"

FILES="$1"
PASSPHRASE="$2"

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My preferred code style is 2-space K&R. This is intended to provide a justification for this style.

Why K&R?

K&R style has the following properties:

1. Provides symmetric size (in terms of screen space consumed) between the opening and closing syntax of a clode block.
2. Forces no empty/meaningless lines, thereby avoiding artificial distance between related things that should be together.
3. Consumes the minimum vertical space while keeping the opening and closing syntax of the block on separate lines from the content.