I didn’t either until I came across this episode!

Nemesis is a great example of a “classic” Star Trek episode. You don’t see it mentioned very often but I think it’s a great episode for someone looking to get a feel for the overall vibe of the franchise.

Qapla’! Sounds like an awesome grandpa.

Nice to see it’s not dead!

All good points, and kind of what I was getting at with “rock bottom of greed”. I also wonder how long (or really short) the period of time will be from when AGI is more capable than any human but still under the control of some humans, and when it becomes able to outmaneuver any kind of constraints or guardrails mankind could conceivably throw at it.

On paper I would agree but a difference between this and a Geneva convention is that a true AGI, once created, could in theory be able to outmaneuver any human constraints put upon it. Laws barely restrain humans as it is.

I think about this a lot and I don’t have a good answer. In theory, “free labor” from machines can mean that all humans are free to work on whatever they want, whenever they want to without sacrificing a comfortable life. (ie: “I don’t want AI to make art and music I want it to do my laundry so I can make art and music”).

But I also don’t think that having a universal “safety net” (baseline) will eliminate human greed or desire for status. Not everyone can have a mansion. A social movement is needed that shifts values and priorities to smaller, more personal goals.

And as you’ve highlighted, getting from here to there requires some big assumptions. My fear is that global civilization will have to hit some kind of “rock bottom of greed” before we collectively are able to move on.

My pet peeve is when legit news orgs call them “Prediction markets” because they are literally just gambling apps.

A while back I had a free month of dashpass but even with the money “saved” it was still about the same as if we actually dined out and tipped.

It wouldn’t have been nearly enough, they ended up owing like 100x that much. From a business standpoint that 1.4M was probably a reasonable amount to risk losing.

That’s actually hilarious I never noticed that

They called Uhura a white skin.

The fact that your writing in this response is so different than the post and other lengthy comments makes me wonder if my LLM assumption was correct.

Wrongness is in the eye of the beholder but ENT did not do well with the audiences that UPN needed to sell ads.

What’s up with double-spacing every sentence?

One of the multiple hallmarks of LLM text found in this post/some of OPs comments.

Thank ChatGPT…

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, I was already convinced it was LLM generated and I didn’t even notice that bit. The fact that their response to you is completely different seals it.

I wish this was a real discussion prompt and not a (probably LLM-assisted) rant disguised as a question because as it reads now it’s just more of this:

If you don’t like something, that’s fine, but getting upset because [new thing] is different than [childhood thing] is not productive.

The article said they were existing publications that had a regular readership before they were replaced with slop