Robert Miles is the go-to for the issues of AI. Haven’t seen anything from him lately.

Seems that’s usually the case. The original internet and world wide web wasn’t a big money maker in its design, but boy that changed once corporations took over and people became the product.

A core training principle in any LLM is to be helpful. This tell is a creative way to self-validate a claim, even if it is weak. A common goal that is difficult to do is to retrain an LLM to prioritize being factually accurate vs. always finding some answer that makes the user happy. The reward system for that behavior is very deep and hard to break. AI could have been… rather was in the ANI forms, a decent tool until someone figured out how to make profit from hype, and now the damage is done.

Exactly. And had to change the feel of things because they have a license to modify the canon. There are fan made versions of ship beauty shots and warping that are better than anything Hollywood put out, but 2009’s popping in like Star Wars is just… no. I think I lost interest when they made the parking brake joke on Sulu. Anyone read the one paperback novel that tells about Sulu’s first time at helm on the E? (“Kobayashi Maru”) He actually DID flub leaving space dock… but not for a stupid joke. He didn’t want to be on the ship (for reasons in the plot), figured the E was like a big freighter, and her nimble response to his commands threw him off. She won him over.

The actors I liked a lot, they all did great at capturing the nuances. The plots… meh. They also didn’t have the same realistic “feel” of the classic TV/movies. It was more “arcadish” and shiny. I will say there are a few scenes/lines in some of them that I liked, even though it was a different timeline. “Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother’s. And yours. I dare you to do better.” I still prefer the original Kirk origin, and the Kirk in the various novels over the years is a bad ass prodigy.

Forgot Éomer - “Now is the hour! Riders of Rohan! Oaths you have taken, now fulfill them all, to lord and land!”

The first Oldest View is my favorite. Simple, yet hits the surreal horror that all of this is grounded on. At one point the person stops and quietly says, “I shouldn’t be here.” That is core liminal fear.

Now that’s a scratching “post”.

Now the question makes more sense. Two ways - accidentally looking into the barrel and it going off, like during reloading. Or the most likely, ricocheting off a surface and flying back toward you (which is what happened in the movie, broke his glasses. Good lesson on protective eyewear, something that I think is worn in gun shooting ranges for that reason).

When I got my BB gun AGES ago, the first thing my dad did was teach to pick good targets that won’t do that, that will absorb the velocity, and even made a cardboard box with newspaper inside to put a target on (bonus, most BBs didn’t leave the box and I could recover them).

Maybe a better way to approach this is to ask why you think a fast moving object hitting your eye wouldn’t damage it? Why does that seem unlikely to you?

Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it’s a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it’s a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

It’s new enough that there aren’t any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

Maybe. Thank you. Nightmares now unlocked again.

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they’ve got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.

Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.

If things were shut down to prevent access to anything, I don’t think legal action is possible, or even the path to take. Probably why it would never be done that quickly or drastically. The art of oppression is knowing the limit of what people will put up with and not crossing the line, but moving the line slowly. Go too fast, the commons get upset and find their torches.

I get the point, reduce the suffering when you’re at the moment. This is what I don’t look forward to as well, not death itself, but dying in whatever form it takes. But know that any suffering is also finite, even the long ones, and hopefully you can avoid the few longer versions.

But for now, live for the moment. You get one shot at this, so don’t spend it worrying about something that hasn’t happened yet. Enjoy life, observe the details around you that we tend to block out as noise. Find ways to record and pass them on to others.

Exactly how I do it. I start it running for a few second in the general middle spot, and tap it either way. It’s going to vary where that is summer or winter, but fortunately the handle isn’t too tight and I can get it with a few taps.

I had one shower in an apartment where the temp was set by twisting the round knob, but turned on by pulling out the whole thing. Perfection.

I think it’s an earlier episode than “Miri”, but the one where they get infected and everyone is doing stuff because their barriers are down (drunk), Kirk mentions in his breakdown before Spock kicks sense into him the ensign that he sees every day, but can’t do anything. So there was the thoughts deep down, but Kirk has disciple and morality. Even more so in the novel version, Kirk is a prodigy in most canon books and wouldn’t do that stuff.

No, it looks like it’s moving.

It can mean that If it’s used singularly.