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This fails to realize that any sufficiently complex magical system will be indistinguishable from science

Old people making the same damn complaints in perpetuity across all times

Hardware disparity is real and exists (and has existed) but the rush to self-host is a symptom of remote usage costs.

This is a symptom of rising model API prices. Better compute and token throughput but at rates that don't sustain themselves. Rhetoric surrounding the disparity in intelligence isn't a new idea, and people were saying this would be the case years ago.

@yacineMTB Let's all love Assembly and C/++ and stop compounding memory debt.

People have no idea how fast their computers are do they

Turns out little toy electronics are really intuitive (granted, I'm playing at the "combining components with a flashed ESP32" level and not at the component-design level). Just ask "I wonder what component accomplishes [task]" and you can pretty conveniently add it to a build.

@VictorTaelin Different domains handling the same ontological concepts under different grammars regularly yields unique insights. The practice isn’t inherently bad but reconciling them should be an objective

humans are just so confused about everything, we invent layers of complexity on top of a simple underlying reality, assign different names to the same fundamental concepts, spawn entire fields to investigate the same mathematical objects under different grammatical names

It’s not usefulness alone. Integration into services is useful but it doesn’t create AI preference (though anecdotally I know people who exclusively use Copilot because it’s in their taskbar…) — it’s perceived capability (and general knowledgeability) through perspective. I find Grok is a great reference and lookup tool but its contextual awareness and willingness to call a novel-but-functionally-incorrect idea a bad one is where I start having my issues with it. As much as people dislike Claude’s pushback, I have a personal preference for it when I’m playing with a toy idea and need to vet it. Usually there’s a middle ground where the intelligent design lives a few steps off of what I initially intended but not quite Opus’s first instinct either.

The funny thing about Grok is that it's a perfectly serviceable model that suffers from a lack of standout features. It wants to be taken seriously within its own harness (grok.com), tries to play an edgy character register in X replies, has the cgi personas that have no utility aren't anything past initial novelty, wants to be "the affordable model" but can't beat DeepSeek pricing...

@basedanarki More than ever

can a nigga love life? can a nigga earnestly love life in 2026???

@benzaehringer Is was over by the medical aisle but yea…

Paranoid

@theaveragef2p Less known under its original name as the James McGil Files

"Better Caul Saul"

@Ken67547214 Give more love to the Sagittarius

Why is everyone so racist against virgos?

@Siriuszbusiness @sadreturns You use these types of images for art study so you can create your own images of sexuality that cannot be integrated with love. :minion:

@sadreturns honestly, I use these types of images for art study. like if you need to come up with a specific pose you can look at playboys and find models who are posed similarly to what you're thinking about drawing, and formulate a better idea of how it should look.

@ScourgeArc >/v/ 🧐

When you've lived as a /b/, /v/, and /pol/ tard you send yourself into this deep and secure bubble that the world has and will always be fucked up and no one will understand if you tell them. This drops and you still can't. You're told not to think about it Why? When can we?

@RSTYCG shrink rays have been around since like 2014 dude

No it doesn’t you fuckin retard

@haydendevs I've been meaning to swap (I've got a Ubuntu flash already ready from a miniPC project involving a full-desktop-custody harness) but don't want to touch my Manjaro partition to rescue some non-backed-up credentials rn

ubuntu users are smarter than arch users

What do you mean fictional I wear one of these daily

@ScourgeArc She is though, and I have proof. Her birthday is coming up and I'm feeling like I should break my avoidance and get her a gift despite it reopening the line of communication

She isn't even thinking about you

I want AR glasses so bad, but I have yet to see a pair that doesn't make you look like the biggest dork of all time