Ragnell
@Ragnell@kbin.social
- Comment on Which Spider Man games to play on PS5? 10 months ago:
All 3 of the current series. Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2. The first one was released in 2019, I think.
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
Because the assholes got to "men's rights" "men's movement" en masse, and you'll spend your whole life critiquing individuals and find communities full of those individuals when you see those words.
- Comment on Wolf 359: The Massacre (part 1) 1 year ago:
They would have to call cubes back from where they are pushing territory on the other side of their territory.
The Borg were not just fighting one species when they came to get the Federation, they were expanding outwards on all sides. So they committed the lowest level of resources they believed were necessary, and because the Queen was an arrogant fool, that was just one cube.
- Comment on Wolf 359: The Massacre (part 1) 1 year ago:
Not if Wolf 359 motivated Starfleet to vastly improve their weaponry on their ships specifically to engage the Borg.
For example, if frequency changes on the phasers weren't standard prior to Wolf 359 but were after, then a single Federation ship has a much better chance against the Borg.
Voyager was the first of her class, and she launched shortly before the Sovereign class and the Defiant class which were ships designed SPECIFICALLY to take out Borg. Voyager was designed and built while they were building their escorts and tanks to hold up against the Borg, so it would have had a number of defense advances leading up to that level. And nearly every species Voyager encountered considered it a tank and a warship rather than a science ship, and most were in awe of the level of firepower it held. (They'd have probably turned tail and run if they saw the Enterprise E.)
The Federation, like they did between Discovery and TOS because of their war with the Klingons, tanked up their ships and loaded them with new firepower after getting their asses kicked and getting reminded that exploration can be a dangerous endeavor.
- Comment on Travelling Kitty 😹🛂 1 year ago:
Upvote the Klingon Kitty? Upvote the Klingon Kitty!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Capes in SPAAAACE
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Garak being really good at buying cheap leftover fabrics and using them up just explains all the clothes on DS9.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I feel like the only difference between Riker and a Betazoid man is that a Betazoid man tells his stupid jokes over telepathy.
- Comment on What else do you think they do during those long haul warps? 1 year ago:
This is from the ep where Geordi had that transporter accident. You haven't seen it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Back in the 90s there were at least 5 X-men teams and every single one of them had a full telepath on them, but there was still enough drama and plot to create the most intricate superhero soap opera ever created.
Star Trek writers are cowards for avoiding Betazoids.
- Comment on And no, just taking 5 min to do the thing is not an option. 1 year ago:
I have never met anyone who hates this episode. This is the one where Lwaxana shows up at the wedding naked.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Equal parts Dukat, Q and Data.
- Comment on Uh yeah, totally. 1 year ago:
Does anyone have the blank for this?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
@Stamets I choose to believe thre was someone else by this name who wasn't an idiot. They mean the 22nd Century Elon Musk.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@Freesoftwareenjoyer Gaming isn't as bad as cryptomining farms and the stuff required by an AI server, man. You need to go look up some of the load on this stuff.
And you still haven't gotten back to me on how AI improves society. People too lazy to learn to draw can say they drew something they actually didn't? That's not improvement.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@Freesoftwareenjoyer Anyone could create art before. Anyone could edit photos. And with practice, they could become good. Artists aren't some special class of people born to draw, they are people who have honed their skills.
And for people who didn't want to hone their skills, they could pay for art. You could argue that's a change but AI is not gonna be free forever, and you'll probably end up paying in the near future to generate that art. Which, be honest, is VERY different from "making art." You input a direction and something else made it, which isn't that different from just getting a friend to draw it.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@Freesoftwareenjoyer Out of curiosity, how is the world appreciably different now that AI exists?
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@SCB The Luddites gave way to Unions, which yes were more effective and gave us a LOT of good things like the 8 hour work week, weekends, and vacations. Technology alone did not give us that. Technology applied as bosses and barons wanted did not give us that. Collective action did that. And collective action has evolved along a timeline that INCLUDES sabotaging technology.
Things like the SAGAFTRA/WGA strike are what's going to get us good results from the adoption of AI. Until then, the AI is just a tool in the hands of the rich to control labor.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@Freesoftwareenjoyer interesting you mention stopping burning coal. Because mining and burning coal is bad for the environment.
Guess what else is bad for the environment? Huge datacenters supporting AI. They go through electricity and water and materials at the same rates as bitcoin mining.
A human being writing stuff only uses as much energy as a human being doing just about anything else, though.
So yes, while ending coal would cost some miners jobs, the net gain is worth it. But adopting AI in standard practice in the entertainment industry does not have the same gains. It can't offset the human misery caused by the job loss.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
This weekend my aunt got a room at a ery expensive motel, and was delighted by the fact that a robot delivered amenities to her room. And at breakfast we had an argument about whether or not it saved the hotel money to us the robot instead of a person.
But the bottom line is that the robot was only in use at an extremely expensive hotel and is not commonly seen at cheap hotels. So the robot is a pretty expensive investment, even if it saves money in the long run.
Public schools are NEVER going to make an investment as expensive as an AI teacher, it doesn't matter how advanced the things get. Besides, their teachers are union. I will give you that rich private schools might try it.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@linearchaos How can a predictive text model grade papers effectively?
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@Gsus4 We'll get a neat toy out of it and hopefully some laws around the use of that neat toy in entertainment that protect creative workers. Also we'll have learned some new things about what can be done with computers.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@SCB The Luddites were not upset about progress, they were upset that the people they had worked their whole lives for were kicking them to the street without a thought. So they destroyed the machines in protest.
It's not weird, it's not just a trend, and it's actually more in touch with the reality of employer-employee relations than the idea that these LLMs are ready for primetime.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@DarkMatter_contract It's not that the AI CAN replace jobs, it's that they're gonna use it to replace jobs anyway.
The burst will come from those companies succeeding and quickly destroying a lot of their customer's businesses in the process.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
@Reva "Hey, should we use this statistical model that imitates language to replace my helpdesk personnel?" is an ethical question, because bosses don't listen when you outright tell them that's stupid.
- Comment on The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool 1 year ago:
@jrburkh Thing is, you can't just tell a guy who's trying to scrape together enough for food that "We need to change the paradigm of our economic system." That's not a thing that can be done quickly or effectively right now, and writers need to protect their income NOW. The only thing that can be done is for them to aggressively protect their rights while lobbying the governments.
- Comment on The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool 1 year ago:
So THIS is the article that has all those writers on Bluesky ranting.
For me, I don't see HOW this is a useful tool at all. It's.. a word counter. It counts the number of times you use a word. Someone had a screencap of his "vividness" rankings on words, and it had placed "wintery" at a higher score than "permafrost." Why? How does it know that one word is more vivid than the other? what's the standard here? This sort of thing is very subjective.
And he starts with Vonnegut's shape of stories, but an LLM can't recognize rising and falling action so how could it do such a comparison?
Honestly, the WHOLE thing sounds like he's trying to create a formula for good writing, and you can't pin down good writing like that.
This is not a useful tool. It's a tool that will get people caught in the weeds like they do with narrative outlines like the Hero's Journey and lists of tropes.
- Comment on Did anyone else see what Uhura did there? 1 year ago:
It's not the coffee, she smiled when she saw Spock's backside. She leaned back to check him out.
- Comment on am I the only person on earth that loves disco Elysium 1 year ago:
I've never heard a bad thing about it. I'm stillplaying through, it's remarkable. I'm having a little trouble with the map, though.
- Comment on Someone Used ChatGPT to Finish the Game of Thrones Book Series - IGN 1 year ago:
I'm not sure using a program designed to find the most likely words and sentences is a great way to finish up a book series known for turning cliches and tropes on their heads.