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@MakerInParadise
Chief Systems Engineer in MedTech - formerly industrial power, Hollywood film, military and aerospace.
@RyanClogg It is... until they don't refund you for the shipping costs when it shows up tomorrow.
"api costs are too high, lets create our own LLM"
Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.
@Hybridathlete 225 bench is the easiest way to tell if someone is juiced out of their mind. Maybe 1 in a million are doing it naturally.
🚨 Donald Trump says the US has experimental drugs that can bring dead people back to life.
