Original STD showrunner (and gay man), Bryan Fuller, worked on some great episodes of DS9 and Voyager. He also has a weird thing for giving female characters male names. Shrug.
Yeah, exactly. I watched Season 1 of Discovery. I was willing to give it a chance, and it's true that most Treks started slow in season 1. (It's also true that most Treks had some EXCELLENT season 1 episodes. This was not true of Discovery.)
No, it got worse as it went on, and I only made it a couple of episodes into season 2.
Likewise with Picard, I gave it a shot. It just kept getting dumber. It wasn't that it was bad so much as it was DUMB. So I quit after season 1. I'm pretty much done with live action Star Trek, though I do enjoy Lower Decks and I'm rewatching Ds9 right now.
I do know a couple of people who watched S3 of Picard, and it's exactly what you said. It's like a victims of abuse coming back for more and being grateful for the scraps off the table.
I used to know plenty of people that were into TNG, DS9, etc.
I've never met a single person "in the wild" who watches Discovery. Literally, not a single person. I have met some who watched Picard, and the response is almost always "Well, it's so nice to see the gang back together again..."
Star Trek is dead at this point. What remains is unrecognizable to what we loved and largely indistinguishable from Star Wars.
"All the companions are open to romance with any sex player character"
Ah yes, "playersexual." I find that worst of all, TBH. Like having a same-sex party member, as you become friends and accomplish deeds together, romance options start popping up. Pretty bizarre.
Look, if people want to have options for same-sex romance, that's fine. But this playersexual shit makes everyone boring and bland since they'll fuck anything.
An acquaintance/friend of mine is gay (and she’s totally anti-trans, anti-nonbinary, etc., and mostly hangs out with straight gays..it’s kind of interesting) AND her older brother is gay too. It’s got to be evidence of genetic/biologic influence (impacting both XX and XY) or parents. From what I know of the parents, it’s the parents.
Beamdog did add some homosexual option characters in the extended editions. (But you can also easily ignore the Beamdog content.)
You know, the term slut is at least 1,000 years old. Whore is ancient (and there are of course antecedents in every language). Your obsession with being a whore for blacks is kind of interesting. You might want to look up the statistics on exactly what percentage of white women have a mixed race child out of wedlock?
You're not better than the leftists who are making fun of the women in this video for being too white and racist and bitches BECAUSE there are not blacks.
There's not even a black person in the video.
Yes, exactly, because look at them -- no landwhales, mostly attractive -- you know they are going to get married. You wouldn't be annoyed if that weren't so!
OP: "Why don't men want western women?"
Well, they clearly DO. You can insult "beta orbiters" and rant about whatever you want, but the reality is impossible to ignore.
Exact same response I made to someone else:
Yes, exactly, because look at them -- no landwhales, mostly attractive -- you know they are going to get married. You wouldn't be annoyed if that weren't so!
Yes, exactly, because look at them -- no landwhales, mostly attractive -- you know they are going to get married. You wouldn't be annoyed if that weren't so!
I don't get it either. It's a bunch of kids dancing and being silly. Yeah, they're dressed like weirdo zoomers and the music sucks, but...what?
Plus, guys DO want that. Look at the crowd of boys around the edge.
Come on, this is FAKE news. Misinformation. DEBONKED.
Headline is FALSE.
The documents aren't shocking at all, completely inline with Canadian government behavior.
Are you talking about trichinosis?
As long as you cook wild boar to 165F, you will be fine. Of course it will be dry as shit unless you're braising or something.
Playing two sides off against each other is KIND of what the colonial powers in Europe did best (Turks vs Arabs, Hutus vs Tutsis, multitude of Indian principalities and kingdoms).
The unforeseen fallout was that all the people fleeing these shithole countries and situations ended up moving to Europe and America.
I explained in more detail about one recent usage l in this post: (not sure if there's a better way to link)
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17sPFoXxFo/x/c/4Z8kybNWU3r
Here are a series of chatGPT-4 queries I did today. I'm not an Excel wizard, so this was helpful. The answers worked perfectly with no edits. I could have figured this out, but it probably would have taken me 15-20 minutes (the third query with summary by month was tricky). Not exactly programming, but programming adjacent!
"I have an excel spreadsheet with a sheet named "Details". There are many rows. Row 1 is a header. Column C is a "Category" column. In another worksheet I want to list all the unique Categories from sheet Details AND how many rows have that category."
follow up
" In sheet Details, Column G is called "Widgets". This maybe a value or it may be blank. I want to summarize how many of each category has a value in the widgets col"
another follow up
"Another. Column B is a date/time col. summarize the number of rows for each month."
I agree that it is not replacement for humans. I agree it's not a replacement for programmers. I've posted a bunch on this article today, and I've tried to be really clear that I view LLMs as a tool and one that you need to be good at your job to know how to use correctly.
My hope is actually that it will put a major dent in the outsourcing industry, because the kind of menial shit programming that so many outsourcing firms do can be done much more time efficiently inhouse.
The people (not you) who are putting their fingers in their ears and saying "my job is safe!" and pointing at the people who talk about AGI are entirely missing the point. LLMs are a tool, they're improving rapidly, and like it or not, they WILL impact how programming is done.
Yeah, I did explain/explain analyze, I did index analysis. This was a complicated query with a lot of joins and subqueries. ChatGPT completely reorganized it. It was great.
Lol, one last thing. I inherited an insane Excel spreadsheet...multiple worksheets, years of data, etc.
pasted in some of the schema, gave some workbook names, described what I wanted to do, and it came up with some spot-on xlookup() vlookup() functions. Pivot tables make my eyes cross, and this took about 60 seconds to finish.
I think I've written enough on the topic, but I've given some explicit examples, etc., in other posts. Look at my recent posts or so if you want to see the rest of my thoughts.
This is not sentient or 'clever' AI in any capacity
I both agree and disagree with this statement.
No, it is not sentient nor is it operating from anything like a position of sentience or AGI. Any one who says this or thinks this, cough journalists cough, are not worth reading.
Detractors of the technology latch onto this as a strawman argument to attempt devalue the entire technology.
It's a tool. It has proper and improper uses. It has things it is good at and things it is not good at. Between code templating, SQL optimization and generation, error checking, etc., my productivity is improving today.
If you refuse to even look at a tool because some mouthbreather on the Internet thinks chatGPT is going to replace novelists and become skynet, that's your error of reasoning.
It can, however, be quite clever!
Yep, an idiot lawyer used ChatGPT not just for legal research but for legal analysis AND legal writing, and ... well ... stupid in, stupid out.
What's changed in the last 6 months? Both WestLaw and LexisNexis are releasing their own AI tools with safeguards.
Lexis+ AI and Westlaw Precision
Just like how when you ask chatGPT-4 math questions now it spits out an LLM answer and then invokes an equation solver/calculator process, these AIs do citation checking, etc, to make sure their answers are not complete nonsense.
For anything more complex, you'd have to describe it in such a level of detail that you might as well just be writing code at that point.
I think this is kind of the heart pf the matter, though I disagree with you as to extents.
The earliest compilers changed code from something like "MOV AX, 1" to the exact processor opcodes using the exact registers you specify as a programmer. Today, almost nobody ever needs to use assembly language. I think the last time I used it was in school, writing a Towers of Hanoi calculator!
Then we have languages like C that are a step more abstracted. Especially in the early days of C, and before things like pipelining, threading, etc., became so prevalent, a good C coder could more or less predict the exact assembly code that given C code would produce.
Of course there were other early languages, like LISP, that were far more abstracted, and as we move forward to modern languages, almost all of which implement some degree of functional programmming, that tie between assembly code and the code you write is impossible to discern.
Essentially, our programming languages keep getting more and more abstracted.
LLMs are, imho, the next step in this evolution. They are not perfect. They are still improving--very rapidly--but we seem to be on the precipice of a world where a programmer describing a problem algorithmically to an LLM can get very solid results.
Think of the LLM as a new type of compiler that compiles english into instructions. It's almost the realization of Larry Wall's dream with Perl!
The horror that many programmers feel today is akin to what the assembly experts felt at the unoptimized code streaming out of compilers.
I rarely speak in absolutes, but imho, anyone who says this technology is crap is just ignorant. We are 1-2 years in to see what LLMs can do. What will they be like in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Even with simply linear improvements, LLMs are going to have a huge impact on coding for the foreseeable future.
If you say that, then you are speaking from a position of ignorance, inexperience, or both.
I had a ton of fun with Fallout 3. I was living outside of DC at the time, so it was nice to see a bunch of landmarks surrounded by radioactive sludge and super mutants.