“Grok is now free for everyone” the banner proudly proclaims as I open the app.
Great. So I no longer need to have something worth expressing to partake in this constant flow of drivel. Also, I can now expect to find myself arguing with a machine designed to sound erudite. Great
@PandasAndVidya@Bad_Tweet_Man Yeah they own a whole legal firm that only does that on a daily basis here in Italy. Every Mario and Luigi have to pay monthly licenses or get sued into penury. They even hiked Mario Draghi’s monthly payment because he was world-famous and often on the news.
@Gammitin To be fair, being “of that era” and having suffered through using a 486DX2-66 with 8MB of RAM, I can honestly say that 16MB and a Pentium were pretty much the minimum requirement for not being driven insane by lag.
Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was released 33 years ago today.
Still one of the greatest successes of this saga. What a great ending.
a horrifying video
imagine feeling instinctively pulled to do a task. something that goes beyond your personal ambitions, your environment, or your job. something that comes from genetic instructions, placed down there over millions of years of evolution, screaming at you from generations past
now imagine that task being impossible to do in any satisfactory way. the beaver cannot feel the water, cannot find the wood. there are genetic signals to gather items for the dam, but all the beaver can accomplish in the end is a stage three simulacra. what it will create in this artificial environment will forever be lacking in the eyes of their evolutionary instincts
the beaver KNOWS there are unfinished things to do, but it cannot even conceive of what that could be. where is the water? where is the wood? what are these items meant to do? what is the purpose of it all? the beaver does not know. its brothers in the forest do, but that knowledge is forever beyond this domesticated one, who has never even been outside of an air conditioned room
but it continues its toil, because the beaver cannot understand that its evolutionary ordained tasks are useless here. the rules of its environment have changed, but it lacks the faculties to recognize that; i simultaneously pity the creature and see myself in it