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Perrein reminds me of a slightly nicer planet Chimaera from the anime Jyu-Oh-Sei.

Good to see some people get Alex isn't an infantryman hell that bugger doesn't look like it has a weak point not to mention that head likely isn't holding its brain. Where would that things weak spot be it is functioning very well for missing a limb which usually means no more fighting for us human...

Alex... Alex... Did you learn nothing from Thanos? You should have gone for the head! Alex actually could have been aiming for the head but the hardtrooper just had greater horizontal velocity than Alex could track. A bit more to the right and his shot would have been grazing its head if not plinki...

Yeah I just got a vehicle registration renewal in the mail today, and with it a flyer touting the new push for cashless toll booths in the area. Fuck that. That shit's just an invitation for someone to fuck up and then you are stuck fighting a whole shit ton of spurious toll charges after the fact, ...

"Internet-enabled" devices are an interesting case where 99% of the people who actually design & program them (or otherwise know how they work) flatly refuse to ever use them. The only people who use most "Internet of Things" devices are people who are functionally tech-illiterate. Yup, I specifica...

Pretty sure the founder of Studio Trigger already did this. It was called Gurren Lagann.

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. In addition to the points that others brought up, that would be neutering one of the SELLING FEATURES of the softwa...

Thing is, a human being given permission to look at and thus potentially learn from art could be argued to be legally distinct from giving an automated tool permission to do so. Basically usage permissions need to be updated and clarified as technology advances since it is not reasonable to expect a...

Financial incentives alone are too large for there not to be. Though it will be interesting to see what happens once modern creative rights laws actually get enforced properly. That's my main issue with these tools, is not them existing, but them utilizing sources for training data without the expli...

Not mentioned yet? Alex reaction: Drill kicking in, no fliching, determined expression. Go, man!! It's a bit trope-y, but I would be highly amused if humans turned out to be stupid good at in dismounted combat at baseline just because they don't rely on cybernetics or psionics. Just hand them a gun...

Yeah one would almost be better off with an AI built specifically to generate initial assets in 3d format then handing those assets off to a human or another specialized AI for any sort of animation. And I imagine the AI dataset included enough art and photos with "proper" lighting that it was able ...

It did do a pretty good job with the legs especially, and it didn't give each hand 11 fingers, several of them floating. It did flub the left foot/boot though. The sleeves could be written off as artistic license on the part of the tailor. Otherwise nailed the "Space Opera skimpy minidress uniform" ...

Yeah the human skull and many other mammalian analogues aren't exactly paragons of durability either; the best grey matter defense for them is avoiding trauma to that area to begin with. Unless you are one of the few species that have extra dense plating, extra shock absorbing tissue, and other feat...

Eh, I am still suspecting the Historians of some fuckery to keep the Loroi and Umiak fighting.

And letting either side get hold of a new client race with unknown capabilities would not be in their interests, thus motivation to destroy a scout ship and try to subvert the cooperation of any survivors.

There was a scene in "Earthlight" by Clarke (1955) that sticks in my memory. A warship's crew evacuated to a passenger liner of the opposing side, despite not having enough spacesuits. Clarke wrote that the main danger from the brief exposure would be sunburn, so they did as much of it as possible ...

Demarquis wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:51 pm

and isn't any more likely to turn into a paperclip maximizer than an ordinary human would.

Don't get me started on the stupid hairless apes.

I've been recently enjoying Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander, it needs polish but what is there has been fairly decent. Starts off fairly easy if you use the ship with lasers and shields, but you have to diversify your defenses before taking on level 5+ enemies or it'll take your lunch money.

And yes, at some point far enough into future, there will probably be AI's that will be much better than humans at everything. But since in that case, since everyone will be out of a job, there will be no one to hire you or pay for your comic, I don't see any reason to look too eagerly towards that...

As for why she was chosen to die, from a practical viewpoint, I think it was simply because she would have been the least useful in the imminent fight against the Umiak. Tempo, Fireblade and Beryl are too senior and too valuable to waste. Talon and Spiral were sent on the mission specifically to tr...

In context this should also highlight how dire things are for the Loroi crew - no hesitation to sacrifice one of their own when the cost of not doing so is that they all die.

War is a very ugly thing whose face people forget as soon as they are able.