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Hm. So Farseers cannot "read" other minds over interstellar ranges, but merely "feel" their presence... So when 803 CE Farseers on Deinar telepathically detected the Loroi population on Perrein, were they able to somehow "shout" to them, or establish another kind of contact? What Farseers do is det...

The range of normal telepathy is only a few hundred meters, and telepathic intrusion usually requires close proximity or even physical touch. Aside from normal telepathy - is there a possibility for eg Farseers or other Loroi equipped with "amplifiers" to break into other Loroi minds over greaater ...

Where absolutely necessary, Loroi with critical secrets must be kept physically isolated. Sounds a bit impractical. Or does matter "shield" sanzai to certain degree? Lets say 50m of concrete or 3m of lead? The range of normal telepathy is only a few hundred meters, and telepathic intrusion usually ...

Are Loroi vulnerable to telepathic intrusion in their sleep? Is it easy for a wake/conscious Loroi to telepathically trespass into another's sleeping psyche? If so how can Loroi of high rank with sensitive information or classified knowledge sleep well? Loroi mental defenses are less effective when...

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You can specify a polygon or polyhedron with x faces with 'x sipis' or 'x testa' (ex. azi sipis, 'hexagon').

Hālian wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:25 am

It'd make them harder to move, and I was thinking about the present day.

The point was that it's a traditional form of the game. If you're in the modern era and you're worried about cheating you can just computerize it.

I kinda wanna make a physical Crossfire set now. Just gotta find some Heroscape terrain and a 3D printer… :mrgreen: I bought a bunch of cheap chess pieces, and I'm going to print out a board and do some playtesting with family members. Later in the story, there is a Crossfire match using a fancy tr...

The theory I've heard which makes more sense is that humor is an important skill in impressing a potential mate. In Loroi the gender roles are mostly reversed, but impressing a mate is not important for either males or females, since matches are prearranged. In any case, I don't think Loroi males ar...

Whatever court rulings or new legislation may come, the rule of due process still applies. You can't sanction someone for breaking the law without proving they did so in court (in the United States, at least). An artist can't be punished just because his or her art looks like it was AI generated; th...

To be honest I think it’s likely a distinction without a clear and technically definable difference and don’t really like the implications of ‘it’s cool as long as neurons do it’ we have already had various animals neurons isolated in a dish and used for various purposes. Humans have some legal rig...

Well, human artists can and do sue other human artists for 'drawing inspiration' from their work if it's noticeable and demonstratable. But generative AI is not a human artist and does not have a brain or make decisions, and so even if something is legal for a human artist to do, it does not necessa...

Human ears seem a little unusual in that the external portion of the ear seems to do very little to improve hearing. Most mammals with good hearing have large cone-shaped external ears that direct sound into the ear, whereas ape ears don't seem to do that very well. Many such mammal ears have pointy...

Wouldn't it be easier for AI companies to place restrictions on their LLM's output, rather than the training input? It's not copyright infringement if the customer cant get to see it. Band-aids like banning certain keywords are pretty easy to work around, and the content is going to leak out even i...

You can tweak the parameters of a setting any way to want to get a situation you prefer, but I think some concepts just make basic sense. Automated small craft that are either expendable or can frequently return to a mothership for resupply and repair can work fine, but a large ship that needs to st...

Within the first year of the war, when it became clear that it would not end quickly, the Loroi began authorizing a massive increase in reproduction; to start with, almost every warrior in good standing was allowed to have an additional child during her next available leave. The government then had ...

The Loroi do have shortages of trained personnel, but the bottleneck is not the birth rate, but rather the capacity of education and training infrastructure... and time.

Artificial gestation is a lot more difficult than artificial conception. The reproductive system of a sophisticated creature that gives live birth like a human is a very complex machine... the easiest way to replicate it is with another biological system, and that introduces all kinds of additional ...

The point is that if a generator appears to be using infringing material, the offended party can file a lawsuit in which they could subpoena the AI company records and code used for training purposes. All this would be difficult and expensive, but it's possible... perhaps not for an individual, but ...

There isn't going to be any way to dissect a model and know what its contents are based off of, so its an unenforceable law. If your generator is able to produce recognizable facsimiles of the work of a particular content creator when that creator's name is included in a prompt, then it's kind of h...

I don't see how it would be possible to "outlaw AI..." I don't think it's practically possible to outlaw technology itself. The practice of using copyrighted data for AI training without permission of the copyright holders, however, is something that could be regulated, and I think it's perfectly re...