Recent content by Charlaquin

And nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can’t play basketball! (I’m joking of course, this seems perfectly reasonable, especially since skeletons are generally on the weak side for warlock familiars)

Oh lord, I hope so!

I don’t know if semicolons and em dashes are still considered indicators of likely AI writing, but I know they were at one point and that frustrated the heck out of me as someone who uses both punctuation marks a lot and has no intention of changing that. And I’m not even writing in an academic...

Thanks for your insight! Well, I certainly appreciate that you’re still teaching them that skill. Whatever anyone may think of AI itself, I think you’re very much correct that it’s too soon to know if that will continue to be a necessary skill in the future. And better to have the skill and not...

That sounds like a terrible thing, because a lot of major breakthroughs in the sciences have been results of developing new mathematics. If use of computers that only report information contained within their training data replace the process of mathematics, how are new mathematics ever going to...

I’m pretty sure you can read the full study here if you want to: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 But, regardless, wise to be cautious about results that agree with your own biases.

Have you read the MIT study about the neural and cognitive effects of LLM-assisted essay writing? I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts on it if so.

Because CEO types like him take silence as permission. The more out of touch they are, the louder you have to be to be heard by them.

Huh? That’s literally what regulation is. It’s not a matter of what I like or what’s cool. People can like whatever they want, but technology that works because of and enables rampant plagiarism, generates sexual content of people, including minors, without their permission, and creates serious...

Transphobia turning off her younger consumers? I’m from the first generation to get hooked on Harry Potter, started reading it even before the original Warner Bros marketing deal, before there was a single piece of merchandise. Most of the energy around HP boycotts is from people my age. It’s...

Gross. Was he asked specifically about the Harry Potter deal or something?

That was my experience with every variant of the idea I’ve tried. It was always better to just go unconscious that to try to stay standing an risk taking damage at 0 HP.

The hope is that we will be able to get some regulations established on this stuff before the Alphas grow up.