Rhaedas

"The First Duty" was the Academy episode. "Measure of a Man" is the courtroom one where Data was going to be taken for research. "Your Honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life; well, there it sits! - Waiting."

All orange I've ever met were loveable. When they weren't bat-shit crazy. Seems to get better as they get older.

No, Mozilla's a dinosaur.

That is a Firefox, although technically it's an anti-Firefox as it's counter clockwise. Add it to the variants, maybe the opposite rotation adds security.

I can't say if the frequency is right, but poorly shielded spark plug wires will send all kinds of EM out. You know, the older cars where if you touched one of those wires you'd feel it, or you could see the aura if it was dark jumping around.

Why won't it click the Play button??? Ahhhhhh

I don't need the ambiance actually, I've got it right here in my head.

If it was just our species that suffered, probably not. But we've unleashed upon this planet something that is possibly worse than nature alone was able to do, and that's tragic. I care about that. I don't think we can do much about it at this point, but shame on us.

I do care about the lost potential we had as a species. Maybe. If we had changed a lot of our ways. Maybe that just wasn't possible, what makes us destroyers of worlds is what also powers the greatness, and one can't happen without the other. Great Filter and all that. Maybe we're not the only ones in the universe that have looked around at the end and said, "shit, we could have done better than this".

So act and care locally. Do what you can to be as responsible of a being to the world as you can in this society. Don't worry if won't help the big picture, that's beyond your control. Pebbles falling can eventually cause an avalanche, but in the meantime they're just doing pebble things. Be the best pebble you can be.

Really. I get that the business world is dynamic and not adapting to changing times kills companies, but so does torpedoing a long-established and recognized name. It's not just HBO, there have been many examples it seems recently, as somehow the suggestion to just drop what your customers look for and use something different and worse is a common boardroom thing, and with applause and promotions. It's stupid. It's great for ad and marketing firms I guess, but I'll bet a typical first utterance is:

"Why are they getting rid of their old trademark, it's good."

"Shhh, this is worth a lot to us, let them make their mistakes."

Might be something else too. Many people are so sick of hearing about certain people that they've set up filters to avoid any news about them. So what better way to get past that than to just keep the references generic enough to get the views through such blocks but still be accurate.

It was a bit much to work with, but once I realized that the civil war itself and the whys weren't what the movie was about, I went with it. This scene was the most disturbing of them all. Maybe because it's not that hard to imagine some people going this far. I'm sure there's some veterans of various conflicts that would agree and saw it happen.

Exactly my stance. Federal regulation makes sense when there's a common ground, but my first response when seeing the quote about a "light touch" was, it can't get any lighter than it is. If you want to push for federal over state enforcement, then present something that is actually protecting more than the profit interests of those economically invested in AI. Like human species interests, preservation, not opening something we can't close.

And before the "LLM isn't AGI" comes into play, of course it isn't. But if we're treating LLM R&D with a full throttle and safety concerns on the shelf, we're doing the same with any related field. And even LLMs can have alignment issues and be misused or misguided while connected to crucial or even life-threatening conditions. "We wouldn't do that." Of course we would. Money.

Forgot the non-technological part. Talk to your kid, and expect natural urges will win out so give them some guidance to navigate the real world out there. Being restrictive just backfires, either sooner or later in the person's life.

I'll give him credit and say it's "and" since that would make more sense in the flow of the sentence. He's a terrible orator, so even the basic things said by him can be confusing. Not a fan of the heavy hand of military, but Eisenhower warned us we'd get like this. A strong defense is a good offense, but I think the US politically, economically, and even socially embraces that a little too much through history, and we definitely have war hawks in control right now.