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QuercusMaxyesterday at 5:55 PM1 replyview on HN

Prior to LLMs I never considered that I might have to make a resource-usage decision between hiring Star Trek's Data vs. his stupider brother B4...

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/B-4


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TeMPOraLyesterday at 9:47 PM

Star Trek is a post-scarcity society, those problems don't exist there unless you're in the middle of a crisis and on emergency power.

LLMs briefly seemed like this too, after subscriptions made the SOTA models too cheap to meter, but before they walked back on that and introduced quotas...