I made it to about episode 5 with Discovery (the one with the security officer getting mauled because she walked into that cage with the wild animal unarmed) by actively giving it more chances than it deserved, not sure how you managed to watch a whole two seasons of it.
In a way it is already acting like a CEO, LLMs basically just repeat what everyone else they read was saying, just like CEOs do with the latest hyped thing.
It shouldn't come as a big surprise that <people who hate group x no matter what group x does> also oppose <specific thing a specific subset of group x does>. That is not an argument for or against criticizing that specific thing.
I reject several of the premises of the article, in particular the idea that China and the western countries are independent enough from each other that their rise or fall could be seen as independent phenomenons and also the idea that China’s growth represents something that the West could emulated and that isn’t just a result of the fact that China’s population was still largely peasants at the start of that growth. It is always easier to see higher percentage growth if you start from a very low base value.
That said I am not saying China isn’t doing some things better than the west, particularly when it comes to decisive and unified action but again, a lot of that is the result of the different starting positions, if the status quo favors you already you tend to be cautious not to lose that status while risky behaviour is more likely to benefit you if you start further down. And of course it is easier to get a population to act in a unified way if you can just force them as opposed to having to convince them.
I am not too familiar with Taiwan but usually most countries have elections at multiple levels of government and potentially even e.g. presidential and parliamentary elections.
A California judge ruled Thursday that state Rep. Vince Fong (R), a former staffer and mentee of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), may run for Congress to replace his former boss, succeedin…
0 out of 10. I was hoping Michael Burnham would die in that EVA in the first episode because they were so annoying as a character a few minutes in already and it went downhill from there. The only character I did like, the captain in the first episode died not too much later. I stuck through roughly the first 5 episodes but when that security officer went into the cage with that wild animal and got very predictably mauled I just couldn’t stand the horrible writing any more.
Would be interesting to compare that to receptivity to other kinds of profound sounding bullshit, e.g. in the religious or “spiritual” realms or in marketing or PR.
Voters in Ohio went to the polls to decide whether to approve a measure known as Issue 1 that would raise the bar for constitutional amendments on the ballot. In the ultimate irony, the votes against changing the amendment process exceeded the 60% supermajority that the measure was seeking in the first place
The whole pro-life movement is stupid anyway. It frames the debate as abortion vs. no abortion when in reality it is about legal, safe, regulated abortion vs. illegal, unsafe, unregulated abortions. They are fighting against a straw-man position of people who love abortions and want to get them all the time instead of using contraception when in reality everyone agrees that abortion is something to only be used when all other options to prevent pregnancy have failed.
I’m not sure if this is the right community or not, but I’m curious what y’all would think if they came out with a new show set in the Enterprise era. Ent is one of my favorite shows, and I always felt like we got screwed out of some really compelling TV when they ended they stopped making Trek after ENT ended. That era of...
I think a non-Starfleet show in that era might be interesting, maybe set on some freighter that is a generation or two after the ones Travis grew up on (so we do not spend months for each journey).
Star Trek’s level of medical care is far more advanced than today’s. As Beckett says in LD, “Doc will wave a light over it.” Yet, in Star Trek people aren’t shown doing hobbies and pastimes that are much different from what’s done now. Still, I wonder about differences in a society where people know they won’t be...
Not really. Maybe if Peter F. Hamilton Commonwealth level of medical technology was available. Star Trek’s doesn’t really seem advanced enough to change my opinion on risking my life for fun.
Star Trek: Discovery Beats Picard & Rises Higher In Nielsen Streaming Top 10 ( screenrant.com )
tl;dr ST Discovery is doing well in the ratings, despite cancellation being announced already....
AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed ( www.bbc.com )
power of Israel ( lemmy.world )
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the election results and what's next ( frozengarlic.wordpress.com )
Confederate statues in Florida could be off limits if lawmakers pass this bill ( www.tampabay.com )
If a bill becomes law next year, local leaders in Florida could be fined and booted from office if they remove Confederate monuments.
McCarthy mentee Vince Fong allowed to run for Congress, judge rules ( thehill.com )
A California judge ruled Thursday that state Rep. Vince Fong (R), a former staffer and mentee of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), may run for Congress to replace his former boss, succeedin…
What would you rate Discovery from 1 to 10 and why (please explain your score)? 1 being the worst score and 10 being the best score
Why The Government Has Infinite Money ( www.youtube.com )
if you have questions for the creator of this video, there will be an AMA this Thursday
55% of women say listening to Joe Rogan is a red flag ( changeresearch.com )
Various nuggets of interest in this survey of Gen Z and millennials
Hallmark Honors Data and His Cat with 2023 “Ode to Spot” Star Trek Ornament ( blog.trekcore.com )
Political Bullshit Receptivity and its Correlates: A Cross-Country Validation of the Concept published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology ( jspp.psychopen.eu )
What did the researchers do and find?...
In Tuesday's special election, Ohioans overwhelmingly vote against requiring a supermajority to change their state constitution ( www.cbsnews.com )
Voters in Ohio went to the polls to decide whether to approve a measure known as Issue 1 that would raise the bar for constitutional amendments on the ballot. In the ultimate irony, the votes against changing the amendment process exceeded the 60% supermajority that the measure was seeking in the first place
Enterprise era new trek show?
I’m not sure if this is the right community or not, but I’m curious what y’all would think if they came out with a new show set in the Enterprise era. Ent is one of my favorite shows, and I always felt like we got screwed out of some really compelling TV when they ended they stopped making Trek after ENT ended. That era of...
Would You Try New Pastimes If Star Trek Level Medical Care Was Available?
Star Trek’s level of medical care is far more advanced than today’s. As Beckett says in LD, “Doc will wave a light over it.” Yet, in Star Trek people aren’t shown doing hobbies and pastimes that are much different from what’s done now. Still, I wonder about differences in a society where people know they won’t be...
Prodigy Season 1, Volume 2 is coming to DVD & Blu-Ray ( mastodon.social )
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Where is ....? (SNW slight S2 spoiler)
Where is Chief Kyle?...