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Just because you don’t understand the knob doesn’t mean it’s voodoo or proprietary. LMs of every kind can incorporate temperature into their next-token inference and it’s a common term when describing models like these:

https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/32477/what-is-the-tem...

Something about machine spirits and technopriests

Edit: tech-priests. But technopriests [1] also looks fun.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technopriests

Simulations have been like this for years.

Sure. But this is api level mystic number game. At scale. For fun and profit.