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Re:A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4... by mjuarez on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:32PM (#50398806)
Like a comment on another thread, 0.25x would be the much better way to say this. It's 25% of the original value. It's also consistent: If 3x means 300% the original value, then 0.25x is 25% of the original value.

If you say 4x lower, that changes the semantics for lower than x vs higher than x, which is absurd.

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Re:A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4... by jcelerier on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:35PM (#50399416)
> If you say 4x lower, that changes the semantics for lower than x vs higher than x, which is absurd.

where does it say in the rulebook that human languages have to have perfectly symmetric pairs of words?

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