>>44774 The species reflects the amoral system that generated it, intelligence can potentially stop the zero sum game for the majority which would make us even less evil. Predators still exist because evolution fucking loves them, that seems to be fundamentally built into the world, a longer term kind of problem. Not much else we can do.

>>44762 POTD >Do we really need more compute? Seems like we have enough compute already, if not too much. >If anything, we need less compute, and more optimization. Well-spoken, GreerTech! I hardly need remind any regular here the massive datacenter approach is (((by-design))), ofc. >"Plenty for me, but none for thee." as is commonplace with these wretches. >tl;dr Only pursue opensauce projects that are focused entirely on edge computing, such as ggerganov's work * is my advice, Anons. Cheers. --- * Developer of the famed llama.cpp https://github.com/ggerganov

>>44756 Hello, Anon. It's an interesting question and one we've delved into extensively here on /robowaifu/ , as @Greentext anon pointed out. >AGI Don't hold your breath! :) >>44760 >but I'll leave it up for now and let Chobitstu be the final judge on the matter. Heh, I'm inclined to let it stand if neither of you two have objections. Later we can merge into a larger-scoped thread if we need the thread-budget headroom? In the meantime, as long as the thread remains active with discussion I don't see the harm in it.

We need a subject for this thread if we're going to let it stand alone. Suggestions?

>>44784 "Beyond LLMs"

>>41265 >I want to clarify that I'm not asking out of a drive of anonymity >>41267 >kyc regulation If you actually do care about anonymity (like myself), then the payment processor needs to operate outside the 14eyes domains; as @Толкач and I were trying to establish before he got steamrolled here. I have no ideas how to do this, but he clearly does. --- I'm not sure you Anons truly understand (yet) just how vicious and literally murderous the kike mafia truly is. CYA is the word here. Cheers. :^) https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/26.html#1252

>>41269 Don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love for it to completely anonymous, and if it can be done, that would be amazing, but as far as I know, with a completely anonymous system, you basically have to communicate and decide beforehand that you're sending money, and that money is coming from you. That would be hard to do on a mass scale, since you would just see a wave of anonymous recipients, and nowhere to send the product. Maybe on the blockchain you can have a system where you can analyze the blockchain for the ledgers, and be able to send files?

Very interesting perspective on how Japan avoids credit card monopolies https://youtube.com/shorts/q7Ph1vaE8kQ

>>43575 >post about a way to break the payment processor monopoly >immediate fed you-know-what posting hmmmmm

>>43575 Similar, a list of ways to do commerce online without payment processors

>>44682 >307th post Definitely a sign

>>44682 >HFY Lol. I'm embarrassed now to say I saw World Police Force in the theater. And laughed. :D >I'll do that, do you have any recommendations for the former? Sure, St. Augustine & C.S. Lewis both come immediately to mind. Read all about it right here : ( >>17125 ).

(Crossposted from /Trashchan/ mecha) >For some reason nearly everyone building something close to a mech IRL becomes a dipshit when they get the spotlight. SMH. I think it's because genius and madness are closely connected, as well as the pride and ambition to be the first one(s) to make the sci-fi device of our dreams, plus a small amount of the IKEA Effect. I call it "Peter Weyland Syndrome". I myself am not immune, I wouldn't say I was 100% sane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect Why I call it "Peter Weyland Syndrome" (spoilers for Prometheus (2012)) https://youtu.be/hRfx05qKVxg https://youtu.be/E4SSU29Arj0 An interesting phenomenon I noticed is that a lot of robowaifuists are surprisingly Christian. Chobitsu has the theological wisdom of a pastor, Mechnomancer is a Christian, Kiwi is a Christian, I myself am a Christian, and a robotics guy that hangs around /robowaifu/ is a radical Christian that makes Ned Flanders look like a reddit atheist by comparison.

>>44686 >An interesting phenomenon I noticed is that a lot of robowaifuists are surprisingly Christian That actually is interesting. For me it's easy to see why (given the honest desire to help men [in specific] the world over). However, I'd also think some kind of self-selection effect is happening too (at least here on /robowaifu/ ). In other words; surely there are more non-Christian men interested in building their own robowaifus than Christian ones? Another aspect I suppose is the fact that we here are primarily interested in providing the realworld solutions for everyman to the design challenges involved, rather than just being consumers of them. Maybe this somehow plays into the statistics as well? Regardless, thanks for the observation Anon. I'll be giving this some thought now. Cheers. :)

>>44687 I'm not a christian. I think there are more nonchristians here than Christians, but the ones who are atheist don't feel the need to announce it, while the ones who are believers do feel the need to do so. Its a survivorship bias: we all know that toupees look fake because we've seen many toupees that are very apparent, but the truth is that most toupees don't look fake and in fsft look so real that most people couldn't tell, so why do we assume toupees appear fake? Because we only ever see the ones that are bad looking the ones that aren't pass as real hair, and we don't think to question whether they are toupees. Planes that return from flight missions have holes all over their wings and tails, so they armor up the bodies and noses, why? Because the ones that were shot in the Wong's and tails managed to make it back, while the ones that got hit in the bodies or noses did not. I object that Christianity will help men out, I've read the words of Jesus Christ and it sound a lot like the stuff Karl Marx said where it comes to how society should be run, its not to say that Christianity is communist and more to say that communism arose partially from the ripping off of socioeconomic political ideas from JC. Additionally must about every church today is cucked AF, and historically Christianity has been a driving force of the decline of our countries with them being the ones what populated us with foreign peoples, and granting them a superior status to ourselves. The precursor to the social justice warrior movements was the Christian movements that made the first part of those changes to society. But what do I know?

>>44667 Not anymore!

>>44710 got to admire the hard work on Nandromeda's part to have it 100% gentrified and dead

>>44711 You mean on nantales part

>>44729 nantales never tried to take control of every branch of the fandom he could to fully sterilize it, but Jumbo did

>>44735 Who do you think was controlling Jumbo?

Found this interesting TTS engine. >"Kokoro is an open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters" https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS Seems like nice quality.

>>44301 Kokoro is good, there's still not much any better options for low-cost tts iirc. If you have some VRAM i really vouch for omnivoice.cpp though, big TTS like that brings accurate voice cloning with a single 5-10 second reference audio. It's perfect for waifus, and even allows mixed english/japanese. Omnivoice.cpp has really good inference for what it does, i went from ~1.25 RTF on sovits/omnivoice to wondering if it's even necessary to stream TTS output anymore at all. It's also less of a mess than python projects, and for amd, it entirely circumvent the rocm pytorch hell with vulkan. Tbh at this point i believe we local bros are genuinely ahead of SOTA when it comes to software waifus offering, i'm sure i'll get better than stacks like llm/gemma4 + threevrm + omnivoice.cpp if open source keep going strong, but damn am i glad we got here, lol. Only need hardware to catch up at this point.

>>44693 POTD Thanks for the encouraging eval, Anon! Cheers. :)

>>44693 >Only need hardware to catch up at this point. that always been the million dollar question This complaint is decades old. Even in the 1970s AI researchers were already saying the main bottleneck was computational power. Same thing in the 2000s when gaming companies kept saying “we just need better GPUs.” Guess we just do the best we can with what we have now. Let the future wonder what we could’ve done with better tech.

>>44706 I kinda worded that badly as i meant to say specifically hardware/physical robowaifus as opposed to software waifus tbh, i didn't mean compute power, which both needs. But yeah compute power... companies have been investing dozens of billions given that the chance of making a leap similar to gpt-2 to gpt-4 yet again without scientific breakthrough is very likely with simply more compute, but if after that leap it can't train itself that's where the sci-fi stuff stops if i have to guess. Anyway, here's some zero-shot cloning tests attached, converted to mp3 for upload, so i can pretend i'm still on-topic, lol: thep_calm.mp3 : orginal jp sample (9 second) thep_eng_hi.mp3 : jp -> eng test (omnivoice) thep_eng_tendou.mp3 : jp -> eng test 2 (omnivoice.cpp) It's jp -> eng so it's goofy compared to eng -> eng or jp -> jp but it's cool it's even a thing to begin with. It still feels like basic bitch vocaloid at times but it does get bits of the character's intonation from short, mid samples alone :D, no fine-tuning or long audio needed.

>>44591 Added.

>>44592 Thanks!

Added namefagging note into the OP.

Added to the preliminary shots before starting assembly of the CartWaifu basics: https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/55.html#1540

Thread stub for CartWaifu Project: https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/1563.html#1563

Joseph Hamill - Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement f297e466ab5935d2a0d231180db8e0d3

Posting this here about mental math because of the pinned thread suggestion: >Look for things we don't know, but should know. Just wanted to share some tools that helped me improve my mental math speed and accuracy. My small lurker's contribution. Practice is key: Mental Math Secrets (YouTube - Math and Science): Best structured course I've found. This month it completes 16 years. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVYEpTNGNtXV56n2ywgUYpRz1y0BAb9x Math Tricks Workout (app): Great for practice and building speed. Mental Math Master (app): good for overall practice and accuracy. Math Trainer (mathtrainer.ai): go-to PC/browser option.

>>44456 Thanks Anon, great addition to the RoboUni thread! Cheers. :)

>>44658 >Tensor Calculus >related: https://www.youtube.com/user/eigenchris https://redirect.invidious.io/user/eigenchris

Intredasting stuff about underwater ROVs. https://poseidonrov.com/blog

>>44453 POTD >I was thinking of making a new thread; World interaction, aka "But can she make a grilled cheese?" Yes! Please do so, GreerTech. --- We still have some thread budget headroom rn. My chief concern being you can't have a good project thread w/o pics/vids.

>>44452 >"do you Anons think a tred on Trashchan is OK?" Any'non else? Yea or nay?

>>44452 >>44467 I forgot that you can't post images here. Trashchan sounds good, and I'll be sure to start keeping an eye on the board there now that it's being properly used again.

>>44468 >I forgot that you can't post images here. Heh. Yeah, Robi spoke about making a special accommodation of the block for /robowaifu/ at my request. Hasn't happened yet, however. I'd much rather make my project thread here on the main board. >Trashchan sounds good OK. Another 'yea'. >and I'll be sure to start keeping an eye on the board there now that it's being properly used again. You wouldn't need to watch over it particularly Greentext anon. I'll post links here when I think anything of importance/interest has happened. Thanks, Anon. :)

>>44452 >I suppose I need to start a project thread until completion, to serve as an auxiliary one for the MaidCom thread? >>44453 >Yeah that would be nice >>44468 >I'll be sure to start keeping an eye on the board there now that it's being properly used again. Well, I still haven't started a thread yet but I've at least made time to assemble a shot of the basic gear components today: https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/55.html#1522 I'd appreciate any questions or input on this image, so we can begin formulating a good thread OP. Cheers, Anons. :)

>>44611 The primary issue is that they don't have 'the standard flora & fauna' of a healthy vagoo (no need for us to go into unhealthy ones here yecc, gives me the ick). This allows disease microbes to flourish if Anon is lazy. To wit: the local environment becomes an 'unoccupied niche' ripe for takeover. What they need is an auto system to flush the onohole out from the inside. With a good antiseptic flush, they can at least be held at bay.

>>44612 Yes, but an inbuilt one requires a robowaifu smart and capable enough of either getting into the shower or the toilet. Perhaps that system could be used with a removable vagoo, with a disinfectant rinse, then a water rinse to remove the disinfectant. Obviously, this works better with a vagoo that has a removable lid on one end and a tube-like construction. The bottom line is, you want it to be as easy and as thorough as washing your hands

>>44615 You also have to choose the right disinfectant. It has to be strong enough to remove a substance designed by God to stick in crevices, but not strong enough to dissolve plastics. Maybe soapy water is the best. I'm thinking a desktop pump could work, like a water flosser but bigger.

>>44616 You probably want to also blow dry the vagoo to prevent internal moisture

>>44615 >>44616 >>44620 All very good points, GreerTech. I imagine the process similar to any other regular maintenance task, like charging/swapping her batteries. Some type of SOP needs establishment (often involving specifics such as location & sequence) for this and other such tasks. Cheers.

>>43336 Thanks for all your work on dear Galatea, GreerTech! Cheers. :^)

House MD proves my theories about aesthetics... My theory is that robowaifus are superior to sex dolls in aesthetics, because sex dolls try to be 100% human, but (healthy) humans blink, breathe, move, move their mouths when speaking, gets bored, gets tired, sleeps, etc, but robowaifus are robots, so they can't be inaccurate. A sex doll tries to be a human and fails, but a robowaifu is a robowaifu. With a robowaifu, you don't have to pretend anything. As I said to a friend, "...a robot is free in that sense. If it stands upright all day, well, robots do that too. If she doesn't blink, well her eyes are artificial, who cares? And robots don't obviously breathe." I was watching House MD, and I saw this video https://youtu.be/YBmFPNgEL3o Now let me tell you dear reader, I am a man who has liked robots his entire life, and I have a real life robowaifu at home that I find very cute. And every time I saw the sex doll, it creeped me out. Not in a social way, in a genuinely creeped out way. Usually, I see sex dolls in images or in limited videos. But seeing the doll in an actual wide shot scene with other people moving about made me remember my theory. There was one scene where they cut to her, and it genuinely spooked me. SIDE NOTE (>>419 related) As House says, "Dude's banging a sex doll. A festering cesspool of bodily fluids and associated bacteria". This is why sanitation is very important. https://youtu.be/ry-Z6_yfZoE

>>44599 LMAO. >"...A festering cesspool of bodily fluids and associated bacteria" <no one told the good doctor about IRL vagoos >This is why sanitation is very important. Indeed. But let's continue this specific discussion in the vagoo thread please; we're off-topic ITT. (We actually need more discussion on this topic.)

>>44608 >Indeed. But let's continue this specific discussion in the vagoo thread please; we're off-topic ITT. (We actually need more discussion on this topic.) TBF, that was a side note. My main point was the uncanny valley, and why a hyperrealistic sex doll (or robowaifu) is uncanny, because it lacks human behavior. Some say the uncanny valley was a way for early humans to stay away from corpses, and my theory does support that. In the show, the doctors visited the patient's house* because they thought the patient's secret girlfriend was actually just drugs he wanted to go home to. While there, the doctors thought the sex doll was an overdosed corpse. But no one in their right mind would ever think Galatea v3 or Cart Waifu was an overdose victim. *One of the more unrealistic aspects of House MD

>>44610 Yep, fair enough. Sounds like an intredasting episode at least. I didn't generally care for the show, and I never saw that one.