I have said of billionaires: I hate him so much, I want him to have one hundred million dollars.

Fuck it, somebody render fanfic with AI.

Not sure which shows you’re talking about, but the subject matter seems flexible and interesting. They’re people who can do things the audience surely cannot, and have problems the audience will never face. You can easily write them as miserable anyway for glurge points about the importance of family and whatnot.

It’s basically superhero media where the superpower is money. So Batman without the kung-fu.

Miserable bastards.

Post below this: It says gullible on the ceiling.

‘The status quo sucks.’

‘Uh excuse me it’s the status quo? EDIT: Jeeze it’s like you don’t understand the status quo.’

See also every new medium needing to re-litigate ‘by buying this object with cash, you’ve secretly signed a contract we made up.’

Religions claim to answer that need. But they’re bullshit. It’s all just made-up, and the made-up bullshit somehow means minorities don’t get civil rights.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Ban the entire business model.

There are other ways it might work, like if there is a method of compression that is discovered that reduces the necessary RAM and Compute needs by 2-3 orders of magnitude. So models that are considered very large today (100-300 billion params at full quality) might be able to run effectively on a single 32GB GPU that costs a few thousand dollars.

You might want to check in on how well distilled / quantized models are doing, compared to gigundo datacenter versions.

They’re fucked.

Local models are already winning. Those benchmarked a year behind the biggest of big boys, a year ago. Six months ago they were six months behind. Yesterday Qwen released 3.6 27B and it outperforms 3.5 397B… from February.

Either we’re plateauing toward the asymptotic limit of LLM capabilities, and the endgame runs as well on a toaster as it does on a server - or breakthroughs use big fat models as a glorified search space to be rapidly discarded. Both options point toward neural networks as a lump of algebra that sits on your hard drive and occasionally spins your fans. Remote computing loses, as it basically always must, and the drastically reduced requirements for competing on local software favor clever new competitors who aren’t a bajillion dollars in debt.

Moving off-the-shelf lithium cells from a green-branded battery pack to a yellow-branded battery pack wouldn’t solve the problem - it is the problem. The yellow tool should accept green battery packs, and vice-versa.

Vendor lock-in must die.

Do power tools next.

Take a slide rule to ancient Babylon because on some level I’m morally offended we didn’t figure that one out until the 17th century. Ideally this also snipes a variety of terrible numeral systems.

(Centurii-chan)

“I just wanna talk to him.”

Have a backup instance in mind, if the culture of your current one doesn’t work out. Especially yours. People are not at liberty to express what’s what with this instance on this instance.

Do not be afraid to block people, because they will keep showing up, and some of them are psychic vampires whom their instances will never punish. Universal Monk has a sockpuppet on every instance and will probably respond rudely to slash angrily report this comment for pointing out they’re a block-evading ‘hmm curious’ spambot.

As on reddit, beware the cult of civility. Some communities (subs) will viciously punish ‘fuck off’ but not any behavior that frankly deserves a vulgar dismissal. Read the sidebar. Don’t be afraid to search for alternative communities if the sole moderator is intolerable. See also the Ye Power Trippin Bastards community on dbzer0.