Kirk
@Kirk@startrek.website
- Comment on The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired 1 week ago:
I don’t understand, $600M? Is anyone using this browser?
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 2 weeks ago:
Actually there is an episode of VOY that proves they did evolve a special brian region to supress emotions
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 2 weeks ago:
And yet oddly enough that is not the issue with the Section 31 movie
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah true, I suppose that kind of defeats my whole idea that Vulcans would self-destruct if they allowed emotions to control them.
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen the episode yet that I think you’re alluding to, but yes Vulcans have always been presented as having a kind of Buddhist-style philosophy with the important qualification that they would literally destroy themselves as an advanced race without it. The “religion” is an important social technology to enable them to explore the cosmos.
It’s obviously alluding to humans too, if we can’t control our innate animal reactions like tribalism and greed then we too will not be able to harness our own (physical) technology without self-destructing.
- Comment on "Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah like I said: “vibes”
- Comment on "Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] 2 weeks ago:
I agree the Gamble plot was great and the actor nailed it.
- Comment on "Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] 2 weeks ago:
They wanted to avoid another entrance/exit on screen to keep us guessing how this Star Trek Inception works.
I understand the reasoning from a suspense perspective but manufactured suspense does not feel suspenseful. Think about it: why show the entire long debate about leaving or not if none of them actually care? The only thing that makes sense is that once they understood the danger was real there was an off-camera conversation with Pike or Una wherein Pike or Una presumably told them that the danger was acceptable and to proceed. But if we accept that the conversation happened off-camera, then the presence of the debate scene doesn’t make sense from a storytelling standpoint.
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- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 weeks ago:
/r/im14andthisisdeep
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 weeks ago:
idk OP… this is a lot more effort than I put into things idgaf about.
- Comment on The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room 3 weeks ago:
That’s great to hear thanks
- Comment on The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room 3 weeks ago:
Can anyone with Bazzite experience tell me how it handles games with third party launchers like EA or Ubisoft? You can’t seem to be able to escape those these days and they are buggy even on Windows so I don’t have high hopes for Linux.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 weeks ago:
Inner Light is a good choice. It demonstrates the “vibe” of TNG without relying heavily on any pre existing characters.
- Comment on Paused my DS9 rewatch to read "A Stitch in Time" and am so glad I did 3 weeks ago:
When does it take place chronologically in universe?
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 3 weeks ago:
Are we watching the same movies because the criticisms I usually hear leveled at the TOS films are that they are too philosophical and boring
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 4 weeks ago:
Well this is a take I can’t believe is being upvoted…
- Comment on Attempted another Trek meal: Andorian cabbage soup and Norellian twist bread. 4 weeks ago:
Funny the Star trek cookbook I use has not produced many tasty dishes… Image
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 4 weeks ago:
the note says “please dont be that guy on the internet”
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 4 weeks ago:
There are dozens of us!
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- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 weeks ago:
It worries me that there are scientists out there who are making studies based on the assumption that an LLM chat bot is a reasonable stand-in for a human in this context (in any context really but that’s another conversation). It’s just not what LLMs are, it’s not what they are designed to do. They’ve fallen for the marketing.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 weeks ago:
We address this question using a novel method - generative social simulation - that embeds Large Language Models within Agent-Based Models to create socially rich synthetic platforms. We create a minimal platform where agents can post, repost, and follow others. We find that the resulting following-networks reproduce three well-documented dysfunctions: (1) partisan echo chambers; (2) concentrated influence among a small elite; and (3) the amplification of polarized voices - creating a ‘social media prism’ that distorts political discourse.
- lmao "generative AI chatbots trained on social media behave like social media users"
- Shame on ArsTechnica they should be better than to publish a study like this.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
You are talking about Enterprise?
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
The first Star Trek that doesn’t receive any backlash is the first Star Trek I’m not interested in.
- Comment on Dawn Lewis, given a proclamation from mayor of Cerritos. 5 weeks ago:
Cerritos strong!
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 5 weeks ago:
That’s all LLM software is, it has no connection to reality, it’s bullshitting 100% of the time. The fact that it is correct mostly, or confident always does not imply that it understands anything it’s saying.
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s as lousy as most people remember. Just that S1 can feel a bit of a letdown coming off of Voyager Season 7.
- Comment on Roof top party at STLV 2025 5 weeks ago:
MY PEOPLE Big Smile
This looks so fun thanks for sharing your experiences
