Rhaedas

But it’s changing it before submission. That’s a problem and annoying, but correctable. Next up, your posts and emails get “fixed” after sending them.

“I have nothing to hide.”

So a camera in your bathroom.

“Why would that be anyone else’s business except my own?”

Exactly.

The Foundation book series doesn’t really start into psychic stuff until the second book, Foundation and Empire, with the Mule. Big turning point of the overall plot because of him. I wouldn’t classify the Second Foundation as psychics as much as having the ability to predict patterns mathematically and socially influence populations. The fourth book gets into some other psychic influencers.

I’m okay with the TV show parts I’ve seen, but it is vastly different in its approach (and so more psychic type things going on). I knew a visual version would have to take a lot of liberties as the books just don’t translate well in the way they’re written.

“GPS, directions from America to America, using the longer route through America and avoiding America.”

GPS satellites voluntarily hurl themselves into the atmosphere to burn up.

The different LLMs do vary in abilities. What I find amazing is how bad Copilot is compared to any of the others. Not just on complex stuff, but basic requests. I’ve had local models do better, years ago.

Not developing AI. We’ve been working on and with ANI for a very long time, and constant research on what might make AGI possible. What side railed everything is some companies found out they can do lots of amazing things with LLMs, a subset of AI science, and investors will pay them to make better versions. They talk a lot about how what they’re doing will lead to AGI, but these people (or the scientists doing the actual work) know better than that. LLMs can possibly be part of what AGI uses, but it’s on the wrong branch. And they’ve given up following the other branches because this one is paying off.

So in short, we could have done better (both ethically and core results), but once again money got in the way.

“15 days”

It should have stayed a VP job. A leader delegates tasks to appropriate people. It’s funny how so many times those who are in power screw it up because they have to inject themselves into crap rather than surround themselves with experts and use their guidance to make decisions. Ego trip ruins what could have worked well.

Web rings would be far better than internet searching now. Give me back HotBot and Altavista (which I know are buried under Google’s evil now). Hell, give me the OG Google.

But paying and asking for permission first would have been costly at the start and slow. They made a decision, maybe at the beginning, maybe as they realized ethical would mean lost time and placement in the race, and they said screw it, let’s go. They also sidelined any AI safety research they were doing (some were making an effort on a difficult problem, but again, $$$ wins).

I was trying to reply to this, bringing up the controversy that erupted when image generators were able to use prompts with artist names to simulate their style, and how that shows how blurry the copyright line is. As I wrote it, I realized how complicated the issue really is, and how little I understand current copyright laws. Some may argue there isn’t any vagueness, an artist’s work in any format is theirs and shouldn’t be copied for other use, training or otherwise. But we all use other people’s work in our own, don’t we? There is no solid line where one is ethical and one isn’t. Plagiarism without proper attribution has always been wrong, but if you take the same content and tweak it a bit, it’s not. LLMs can and do that, through statistical randomness, while using someone else’s material, just like human brains would.

The compensation issue is definitely a problem and where the ethics come into play. Even if many people freely read a book in a library, it has been bought at some point. But how do you determine who was unfairly “stolen” from? Isn’t it basically everyone at this point?

A leak that experts in the area have told the idiot in charge something that anyone outside the military has been saying this whole time? Oh no.

Time for another “no one could have seen this coming”. We definitely haven’t had any historical evidence of pushing operations into places for made up goals only to find out it becomes long and drawn out with limited or no success at all. Nope.

“Sick”

Even Trump admitted he can’t stand the sight of blood. Can’t imagine him under an arrow-laden shield laughing. He’d be the one looking up remarking that the sun is going dark.

My wife moved from WordPerfect (pre-Corel) years ago to Word strictly because all her clients were using Word and she got tired of converting things to work on their machine, especially when printing it out. Not because it was a better choice. This is Microsoft’s only power, dominating the market. Brilliant business strategy, I’ll give them that. Why they don’t use it to be better at the same time baffles me.

Who have you used for self publishing, and would you have gone with a publisher if you could do it again? Also, what type of genre in scifi, or are they different?

Not yet. Know better than to try and do it myself. Also know you rarely get rich writing, it should be to tell the story first.

I have a scifi novel. It’s circling right now in the first revision stage, but the story itself is complete and I feel good about it. Even filed for copyright. Now if I can just get back to work on it (rewriting sucks).

Either way, get the shot if you’re in the age range. Shingles is no joke.

But the Halo series was the worst. The opening scene had me, I will admit. It was bad ass to see it in real life like that, being part of some humans who had no chance in hell of survival. But the storyline from there… so stupid.

The TV series for Highlander was good. Had a few great scenes and characters. Think of it as an alternate timeline going a different direction, playing with the ideas the movie introduced on how immortality isn’t such a great thing.