Implement a critical vulnerability, have it be pointed out, insist it isn’t their responsibility, refuse to fix it.

Now I feel bad. I was being facetious.

Hm. I was thinking of the problem in terms of “what is”, and not so much “what it looks like”. SG-1 is a good example, where the argument is that there is no actual magic. Its “sufficiently advanced = looks like magic” not “… = magic”.

I interpreted the question to consider actual existence of magic. So, I suppose it hinges on how “magic” is actually defined. Where I thought it would be some kind of forces / energy that is manipulated by will or tools. Hm… I suppose this is a lot more nuanced.

Isn’t it always different things? “Magic” being a different set of rules for how the world works. Technology being the things that can be achieved given the rules. And, whether advanced technology is influenced and how, depend on those rules, lore and culture.

If for example magic is only available to some people with the ability or what not. Technology will always be available regardless.

Why do we need three different words for the same thing?

I think you skipped part of the sentence.

I think they’re referring to the online experience. Every single post about some “woman who does something intelligent / skillful”, with enough attention (and it doesn’t take much!), will contain guys being absolute shits.

Seems like the confusion can be attributed to assuming the discussion was limited to “being outside”.

Not to mention that you know that exact typeface and pixel perfect location where letters can be, so it should be relatively easy to go through each possible subsequent character and match the pixelated value.

I got the lifetime pass 5 years ago. I’ve switched to JF because of the disappointment so far about a year ago.

JF is exactly what I wanted and needed plex to be, and everything added since is a worsened product. The lifetime pass was an attempt at getting the peace of mind of “then you just have it”. If anything, only FOSS can give that.

I probably wouldn’t go much further than a couple of hours drive. The mindset of travelling half the world “just cuz we can” has become unpleasant.

It’s actually a bit refreshing for the US president to be so dumb as to say the quiet parts out loud.

That is the eventual conclusion of capitalism, the way it is currently set to play out.

The only forces that could act against it depend on the distribution of critical information… And those are owned by the same private interests… Soooooo. We’ll see. Doesn’t bode well at all.

Out of curiosity, were you of voting age in 2016?

I have never seen a clearer divide and correlation between the value I observe being produced, and those that don’t understand the limitations and value of LLMs.

It’s exhausting, because, yes, LLMs are extremely valuables, but only as so far as to solve the problem of “possible suggestions”, and never as “answers and facts”. For some reason, and I suppose it’s the same as for why bullshit is a thing, people conflate the two. And, not just any “people” either, but IT developers and IT product managers, all the way up. The ones that have every reason to know better, are the ones that seem to be utterly clueless as to what problems it solves well, what is irresponsible for it do be used for, correctly evaluating ethics, privacy and security, etc. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a mad house or just haven’t found the same hallucinogenic that everyone else is on.

The argument is that the explanation was valid, and whether or not you found it valid, is more to do with your inability to get it. Now, this isn’t saying anything about you, because you might get it. So, the “you”, is not the particular you, but rather “one such that would meet the requirement”. But hey, you do you.

I’ve made no statement about you. So, your response is a bit weird.

Don’t conflate an argument being unclear, with you having trouble understanding it

I was joining a group of people who I didn’t know all that well. I was keen to try the D&D experience, and somewhat follow the implied path by the DM. The others were more into the “sandbox” experience. So we ended up doing little more than burn down a tavern after 4 hours of playing. Probably helps if the DM goes through and figures out people’s expectations. We were just kids tho. This was 20 years ago.

I have never played R&D D&D (or, I did once, but had a bad experience), so bear with me.

Is it ever allowed to simply do the thing, instead of rolling dice? For example in this case, to place 5+5 tokens upside down, and pick two of them? Or fold pieces of paper, etc?

Edit: I meant D&D of course. Don’t know where the R came from.

Sure, but, what does that have to do with the AI answer? Wait… Are you an AI?