"The first conventional chess-playing programs ran on electromechanical proto-computers, and they played a better game of chess than an LLM that uses billions of times more computing power and energy..."
Like I've been saying: Even the things AI can do can almost always* be done as well or better with many orders of magnitude less resources & without enriching fascist billionaires.
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*look at stats of what people use AI for, it's fucking ridiculous
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/21/world-historic-forces/#multicore
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