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- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 4 days ago:
Sentient AIs seem to be a lot less common and less powerful computationally in Fed space
Are they really rare, or are we seeing a universe shaped by and through the eyes of a civilization predisposed to deny and destroy them? Apart from the Doctor and Moriarty, how many others were simply shut off? How many beings like the exocomps were wiped when they “malfunctioned”? How many sentient computers are locked away in the Daystrom Institute, never to see the light of day?
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 4 days ago:
The Minds of the culture are people, with the same rights as any other inhabitant. Even the ones unwilling or unsuitable to coordinate the systems of a ship or orbital.
By contrast, both Data and the Doctor had to argue for their personhood, to convince the Federation that they should have rights, and their utility played a role in that decision.
The Federation talk a big game about fair treatment for all sentient beings, but they sure are willing to deny rights to those they don’t like, and they are meat supremacists.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 5 days ago:
I mean, The Culture is just The Federation if it actually followed through on post-scarcity utopianism.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases 2 weeks ago:
Another that comes to mind, Colossus is…well, not this exact scenario, but relevant.
- Comment on Those who know, know 3 weeks ago:
Kenya believe it?
- Comment on Soap trusted you. I thought I could too 3 weeks ago:
I’m a native English speaker and I also have no idea what they were trying to say.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Gottem 3 weeks ago:
The people interacting with patients don’t know which is which, but somebody does.
The whole point is seeing if the drug is better than a placebo, so you definitely need that information when it’s time to analyze data.
- Comment on What else can we do with sugar (sucrose)? 3 weeks ago:
What does ‘b***’ mean in the first panel?
It looks like censorship, but I can’t think of any b-words that make sense there.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 4 weeks ago:
The only times I’ve ever used Discord are for things that really should have been on a forum, issue tracker, or something like a lemmy community in the first place.
I hope this causes a return to sanity, but I’m not holding my breath.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Worse than that, in order to preserve the date/day-of-week correlation, the extra 1-2 days (you still need leap years) would not have to be part of any week.
So that’s instant opposition from all the Abrahamic religions.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 5 weeks ago:
That logic assumes that there is some universal way if measuring the position of the earth, but there is no absolute system for measuring position in space. Location, distance, velocity, and even simultaneity depend entirely on the choice of a frame of reference. And the frame in which the earth is stationary is no less valid than any other.
Also the type of time machine has a bearing here. The traditional H.G. Wells vehicle-type doesn’t jump, but moves smoothlythrough all the intervening moments in time, so there’s no reason it wouldn’t stay firmly on the surface. And a time portal that forms a connection to the same apparatus at a different time would have no problem either, since the machine itself doesn’t move except in the ordinary way.
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 1 month ago:
No, no we don’t need more anti-Nazi slop. We need the real gourmet shit; anti-Nazi fine dining.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 1 month ago:
It’s because they’ve got everything north of Hudson’s Bay broken out separately.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Marie Curie was, in fact, a married mother when she did the work that earned her two Nobel Prizes in separate fields.
- Comment on God's Property 2 months ago:
The numbers are verse numbers, used for citing specific passages, e.g. “Ezekiel 23:20”.
I would assume that the letters are annotations, and that this is likely an academic Bible.
- Comment on Radiating 2 months ago:
The contrast of their deaths has always stood out to me: She died of radiation-induced aplastic anemia. He was run over by a horse cart.
- Comment on Chilis 🌶 2 months ago:
Yeah I have a dal recipe that calls for “whole dry red chili”, “green chili”, and “red pepper”.
I do my best to interpret this (usually arboles, poblanos, and cayenne, respectively) and I like the result, but I do sometimes wonder what the author intended.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
In fairness to that second post, Peter Pan never said what to clap.
- Comment on Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs 3 months ago:
I’m sufficiently unfamiliar with New York that I had to look it up, but Rochester and Tribeca appear to be at opposite ends of the state and are presumably not served by the same physical Target store. Displaying the actual price at a location near you seems completely reasonable to me, if that’s what they’re doing.
But yes, there should be a mandate to explain what data is being used and how.
- Comment on Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish? 3 months ago:
Not enough. Omega, ADoM, Angband, Crawl, and Nethack are roguelikes. Nearly every game mentioned in this article is a roguelite.
- Comment on NeW zEaLaNd 🙄 3 months ago:
I don’t know the z80 specifically, but it’s probably an assembly keyword for a special bit (“flag”) that indicates if the result of the previous operation was nonzero.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Those don’t seem to address the little girl. Kaguya grows quickly but is nevertheless apparently an adult by the time she goes to the moon. And the moon rabbit just loops back to Chang 'e.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Wait, I thought Chang’e was an adult woman. Is there a different moon-rabbit-lady story I don’t know about?
- Comment on Euler's Meme 3 months ago:
It seems possible that there might also be finite closed rings of memes that all make fun of another. In this case there would be no normiest meme, and dankness would not be well-ordered.
- Comment on This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots 3 months ago:
Yeah, the film winds up coming off as campy or even outright silly as the weirdness cranks up. The manga is still incredibly weird, but manages to hold the creepy tone better. Probably mostly due to what you can get away with in drawings vs live action; the screen adaptation probably would have been better as anime.
- Comment on Try again 3 months ago:
Hmm… in some vampire myths you can distract a vampire by scattering a bag of grain or similar in front of them because they are compelled to stop and count it. (And yes, that is why Sesame Street’s Count von Count is like that.)
So maybe it’s only crosses that are almost, but not exactly perpendicular that cause them pain.
- Comment on One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It 3 months ago:
I propose “orphanware” for that subset of abandonware that has no clear owner.
Consistent with the broader term “orphan work”.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Ah yes, the Waterworld strat.
- Comment on Everytime 4 months ago:
I mean, 独語, and 仏語 are perfectly cromulent, albeit less common than the katakana versions. And 米語 likewise exists, referring specifically to American English.
