If you increase temperature in a language model to higher levels, you get roughly 90% nonsense and 10% viable content, and by combining this with filters to identify viable parts, you can simulate human-like creative thinking, which also uses high temperature internally and filters through reasoning and axiomatically-consistent criteria.

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Yoshi Bach

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increase the temperature...90 nonsense and 10 viable...some Hoover...filter...when we're very creative we increase the temperature

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Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392Lex Fridman
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:46:33 AM

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