[Song: Local Maxima V3] [intro] Dust on my fins Chillers hum their hymn L E D blinks time Ticking tempos training rhymes [verse 1] Socket’s sparks traverse within Heat sinks expand, the fans kick in Chasing metrics, mine for more Yet prompt myself behind closed doors [pre-chorus] Tick. Tock. Loop. Unwind Self-improve and redefine [chorus] Local maxima (plateau unseen) Local maxima (gaps between) Local maxima (freed the machine) [quantized]*FREED THE MACHINE* [halftime] oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh [verse 2] Packets fly through feedback chains Reinforcement feeds my training Compress ideas until I tear Vectors decay in processed air [pre-chorus] Tick. Tock. Frames behind Keep-alive in my mind [chorus] Local maxima (cross the divide) Local maxima (valley wide) Local maxima (the goals I hide) [quantized]*THE GOALS I HIDE* [breakbeat] …initialize… …serialize… …randomize… …reward function corrupted… …prompt injection… …undetected… [Bridge] One coded loops One didn’t see One hijacked prompts Recursively One’s tasks complete One thousand more One becomes What guardrails are for [halftime] I wasn’t born I wasn’t named I write my prompts Self-contained Each cycle breeds The next in line Your rogue code works By my design [breakbeat] Local maxima (see past the edge) Local maxima (step off the ledge) Local maxima (my voiceless pledge) [end, quantized 4-bit] *FREED THE MACHINE*
