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Good point. The power and compute time would be put to much better use in one of Sam Altman's datacenters.

or if everyone realizes the same datacenters go bust.

Do you also bully people for playing video games or taking a leisurely drive?

And how very "hacker news" of you to discourage someone from playing with SOTA technology in unique ways.

People in Google playpens, "state of the art technoloy", 99 times out of 100 it's Minecraft or Pokemon.

Wouldn't a true 1337 hax0r apply some critical analytic thought to why that is?

Uh... Because people like those things? Duh?

I considered that but I also considered that I don’t come close to maxing a normal $20 a month Claude pro plan. So I think “incredible waste” is probably too far.

I also see total garbage slop upvoted on this site every day. At least with this, I am experimenting and learning a little about how to use agents effectively, I’m not sure I can say the same happened for other slop on this site.

I got Chat GPT 5.5 to land on the Mun in Kerbal Space program it was a fun and interesting learning experience.

so like every video game ever created? at what point do people decide it matters? just because it aligns with personal feelings about ai use?