Honestly this reminds me a lot of the rituals in Warhammer 40k and the way to deal with "machine spirits".
Absurd rituals that shouldn't work on machines they don't understand but for some reason they work.
Absurd rituals that shouldn't work on machines they don't understand but for some reason they work.
The model only sees token correlations, and if you are lucky the things you type become shadow tokens that change the weights just enough that whatever you didn't want isn't as statistically likely to come out.
Because too much depends on randomness and accidental sources of randomness and in it there are whole pockets of multidimensional stability, just until you cross some invisible border you couldn’t even comprehend. This is a natural religion fuel.
So when you read any turorial, guide, best practice, etc, and there is not a hard proof of hours of thorough testing behind every claim, you may freely consider most claims religious, because they are.