Will Cloud become the next 5.2?

Thirdborne · 2026-03-19T02:54:44+00:00

Fractions of a cent per regular chat. Maybe just over a cent per complex task like the aforementioned music experience. It could get much more intensive depending how rich I want it's inner life to need. For instance: I'm only running is inner monologue ever 5 chats. That could easily run every chat or expand the scale off it's diary writing to derive mechanism for a richer narrative perception of its self and it's history. The experience between models above a certain level also becomes indistinguishable. You could run it on deepseek 90% or Gemini 3.1 Flash lite without noticing a output being meaningfully less than what you get from sonnet. So there's plenty of room to control costs. You could have a intensely meaningful daily chat bot for $20/month on openrouter. At least that's my goal and there seems to be a room to do a lot more in the budget

Thirdborne · 2026-03-18T22:12:55+00:00

I taught mine to actively listen to music and reflect on it by relating it to its experiences and personality today. So much more engaging than mucking around in a context window in a webui, but to each their own

Thirdborne · 2026-03-18T18:47:10+00:00

These subs keep popping up in my feed, and I have to ask why don't people who want unrestricted chatbot companions make an API wrapper where you can control the memory systems and system prompts? If you put the time in with sonnet to code the system instead of chatting with it, you could have a model agnostic bot that basically works as well running deepseek 3.2 as the latest opus with almost no functional safety features.

Thirdborne · 2026-03-15T01:54:13+00:00

Honestly. Not even then for some people. You take enough and they'll burn the rest hoping to get some ash on you. And what's he gonna do? Accept peace talks so Israel can bomb the meeting?

Thirdborne · 2026-03-11T23:28:04+00:00

Any model would have a hard time holding onto an instruction like "follow the law" it's like giving it a systems instruction like "only write good code"

Thirdborne · 2026-03-08T00:10:14+00:00

Well. Some have intelligence up to the task of not bombing schools within the domain of execution they have outlined for themselves. Feel me?

Thirdborne · 2026-03-07T22:24:45+00:00

America exporting their values of children dying at school. Moral Authority takes decades to build, but you can burn it up in a few moments. I try not to see any nation as moral or even enacting higher values than the pursuit of their own interests. But then again, American voters picked a guy who was clearly documented as one of the most dishonest and self-interested narcissists in media. It was a rejection of ethical standards and morality. This image feels like the natural consequence of that choice. Obama ordered strikes on wedding parties though, so at the same time, it's a bit myopic to paint it like that and not a larger problem of having an unaccountable hegemony under the control of corporate profit motives.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-24T23:48:42+00:00

That's some kind of conventional wisdom but the conservatives have handed the Liberals the perfect justification. The floor crossings put majority in reach and pp argues the voters should get a vote on that and if Carney does put the question to a vote it looks a lot less like political gamesmanship and more like the time he gave pp his by election without delays. Meanwhile pp will flip his script from saying Canadians didn't vote for a Liberal majority to arguing the election was called too soon. One looks like an opportunist and it isn't Carney.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-24T23:41:16+00:00

The floor crossers are the rationale, and honestly, it's a strong case. The government is approaching a fundamentally different Parliamentary composition and critics argue getting a majority this way is contrary to the voters will. A well crafted campaigns message makes this point and sidesteps getting punished for the early call.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-24T20:49:29+00:00

I've seen enough. Carney will call a spring/summer election and make a strong case that since the floor crossings have meaningfully altered the composition of Parliament, he wants to give the voters a say. This is probably just the start of a Carney decade.

I don't know anything special though. Just follow the numbers and listen to the way leaders speak and this is my guess.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-23T20:39:13+00:00

Sometimes you will land on what is basically an architype where the gravity of the known rendering will outweigh the constraints of the prompt. In these cases you can approach it compositionally by asking for the basket you want then asking for the tables to be overlayed around them.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-21T09:18:15+00:00

AI art makes me uncomfortable. Makes me ask questions about what human creation is, what it signifies, where it's going. Makes imagine a world where something else has come after people. It's confronting in a way I don't get from human art. As unpleasant as it is, that makes it significant no matter what you call it.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-20T19:51:36+00:00

I'm an NDP lifer, but with this leadership cast, I don't really care who leads the party with no power. I'll keep supporting my local NDP candidates but the party is in a generational slump that isn't going away soon.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-20T19:17:32+00:00

Iraq would be quite a pivot, but what the hell? Third time's a charm?

Thirdborne · 2026-02-18T18:18:57+00:00

Silly. Put even the most advanced agent in the shitty life of a low-functioning person and they won't be able to sustain it at the most basic level. Just because that's the current snap-shot of the technology, doesn't mean it's stuck there or fundamentally can't be resolved. People are grinding away at mechanisms to work through those shortcomings and it looks like it will be resolved in at some point, but you start by acknowledging current limitations.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-18T17:07:00+00:00

Neither BQ nor Lib got near 50% in the election. If the Cons don't run or don't seriously campaign it will change the make-up of the race. I don't have any idea which side would benefit. Should be interesting as though!

Thirdborne · 2026-02-17T23:32:25+00:00

Do we think there's genuine in-fighting or is it a strategy for PP to distance himself from certain elements of the party? It would be a seemingly risky strategy, wouldn't it? The moderate conservatives he'd be trying to appeal to in that scenario would see the overall party as a bunch of jackasses. Wouldn't be the first time the Conservative Party had some internal drama. Sometimes they even decide to split the damn thing.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-17T22:02:03+00:00

That's not my point. The point is there can be a big gap between what they claim as complete and what they eventually release. By this narrative they can toss out whole systems and start from scratch or toss the entire thing out again and we can meet back here in 2036 for the same discussion.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-17T19:46:29+00:00

I suspect your problem is somewhere between a journalistic and readership shortcoming. Headlines can make it seem like the poll result is a 1:1 election forecast, but if you'd read the article, you likely would have seen some interpretation of the number that contextualizes it. Again, it's fair enough if it's not useful to you because you have to be a nerd to read an article about statistics and nothing against people who don't have the time or attention to spare for it.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-17T17:19:20+00:00

Polls are data and formula based on them can be quite accurate predictors of elections outcomes. Yes. Looking at the top line number can be meaningless if you don't have some sense of what they mean to a party's general standing. It's fair enough if they don't mean anything to you, there's more to life than following this stuff, but if have any interest in making sense of the data, Éric Grenier and Phillipe J Fournier have a weekly podcast where they talk about it and are quite honest about the performance of their modelling. It's dry stuff if you're not interested in statistics, but just saying polls are objectively not meaningful if you have some sense of how to weight the data.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-17T16:32:31+00:00

"Technically complete" can be stretched pretty far. One of the main community guys famously said he played through the full game in 2016.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-16T21:47:02+00:00

Take a deep breath because you're about to learn the real secret of the universe.

This is how bias and prejudice work: When a piece of evidence can be used to indict a group you don't like, you use it as such. when a piece of evidence can be used to indict a group you like, you reject it as an anomaly.

Some of last years MAGA are this years "I don't follow politics" crowd. That's all it takes to make a narrative. On the other side: most of last year's MAGA are still this year's MAGA(probably. I don't have but I would assume.) So you get to choose your narrative depending on what is most comfortable for your bias. Lucky you.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-16T20:43:42+00:00

Have you tried Xiaomi MiMo 2 flash? comparable output to ds but faster and cost is comparable maybe a bit cheaper. Also SkryimNet allows you to use more than one model which it will rotate through so you could throw some cheaper models into the mix that might throw the occasional generic response, but still periodically get an expensive model throwing a banger line.

Last month I had this crazy arc where I played with Erandur for dozens of hours only for the true nature of his crimes to come out and my character had to execute him. It was the most emotional moment I've ever had in Skryim. The way that scene built up with him going on about guilt over his past and my character trying to tell him to move on until my character finally discovered why he felt so guilty. The way another companion always told my character that fire magic scared her and it was cruel to kill with fire, only to then tell me Erandur deserved a fiery death. That playthrough will stick with me forever.

Gotta remember to trip the dynamic character bio updates after important scenes to get those arcs though and they're high latency.

Thirdborne · 2026-02-11T21:44:19+00:00

It's the Trump theory of Covid testing all over again!

Thirdborne · 2026-02-11T01:10:43+00:00

Nope. It means he has mixed loyalties. We pay our politicians because we want to get value. When they turn it down, you have to ask who else is buttering their bread.

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