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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardassians_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine_episode)

I was getting the episode number for a joke I was doing in Ten Forward. 😹

Don’t be. It’s been the highlight of my day. Don’t do it again. — Sisko, DS9 S2E05 “Cardassians

There's a kind of scam that some in the AI industry have foisted on others. The scam is "this is so good, it's going to destroy us. Therefore, we need regulation to prevent Roko's Basilisk or Skynet." LLMs have not gotten better in any significant degree. We have the illusion that they have because LLM companies keep adding shims that, for example, use Python libraries to correctly solve math problems or use an actual search engine on your behalf.

LLM development of new abilities has stagnated. Instead, the innovation seems to be in making models that don't require absurd power draws to run. (Deep Seek being a very notable, very recent example.)

I watched this video all the way through hoping they would turn things around but it's just the same fluff for a new audience.

The closest thing to groups we have on mastodon really are just boost bots. It’s pretty annoying that mastodon doesn’t have more. But it’s pretty understandable that mastodon users would assume that.

I’m guessing the issue is with mastodon users at-ing multiple communities on Lemmy/etc creating unnecessary cross posts / duplicates?

If part of your coworker's job is answering questions for coworkers, it's disrespectful (not to mention a career-limiting move) to outsource that labor to an LLM. However, your coworker may be in a situation where they feel overwhelmed by coworkers not using available resources or they may have some other reason for "outsourcing" their work to an LLM. Or they could be underpaid, disgruntled by workload, or a bunch of other different things.

Without more context, it's hard to know what may be going on there. I don't think a constructive conversation with your colleague is possible without getting more information from them. I would recommend being pretty direct. Maybe something like: "It seems like you may not have read my question. This isn't a question that I can get a usable answer from an LLM for. Is there another resource you think I should have used before contacting you?"

If this still feels too confrontational, you could take out the second sentence.

Hard to pick just one but I'll go with John Titor.

For my full desktop, I turn it off when I'm not using it. It basically exists to do heavy compute tasks. I basically do that a few times a week. There's no reason to leave it on if I'm not in the middle of a job. That would be true regardless of the O.S. I'm using on it.

My main computer, I suspend. Usually, I try to make sure that happens on purpose because Ubuntu has this impossible to troubleshoot behavior^1^ that seems to happen more often if it falls asleep on its own.

I would be more inclined to shut it down but I'm particular about my windows and it takes what feels like an hour to get everything just so after reboot. I can't deal with that every day. (Nor am I thrilled about how often Ubuntu LTS wants me to reboot for updates. My desktop needs Ubuntu Studio LTS but my main computer doesn't. When I get time and energy, I'm switching it to Mint so I can deal with someone else's obnoxious choices for a change without learning an entirely new distro.)

^1^ The behavior is not recovering video on wake. It does seem to be working but following the commands I have memorized to shut it down from inside a virtual terminal don't work. The only way to get it down is to hold the power button for "4 seconds" or pull the power plug.

I’m not sure Ed has ever said that. He’s talking about the fact that OpenAI has never made money and isn’t in any danger of doing so ever with their current business model.

It made for interesting background noise. I wouldn't have made the list myself but it's kind of fun seeing someone else catalogue the entire thing even if I disagreed with nearly every ranking in it. 🖖 to Sean Ferrick.

Yeah. There were some things that were really sweet about that coda but it sure didn't make for a coherent and satisfying end to the series that kick-started the modern era of Star Trek television.

Tam Elbrun and Ariana (from the episode Haven) were outliers and should not have been counted.

I don’t think there’s a real rule. In Haven, Lwaxana Troi says basically anything is possible even for people who probably aren’t telepaths.

What’s kind of wild is all the times Deanna’s empath abilities work over ridiculous distances mainly because there’s a subspace transmission involved. Apparently the specification requires support for telepathy to the extent she can even sometimes understand the emotional state of Ferengi.

Pedro the Lion (like Priests And Paramedics and A Simple Plan), the Sixpence None The Richer album This Beautiful Mess particularly Love, Salvation, the Fear of Death, some of Rich Mullins like much of A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band.