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I understood the problem with tiny hut being used to rest in the middle of the courtyard of an enemy castle or some other obviously unsuitable place to force the DM to give the party a LR, and not just 'let's skip a random encounter risk while having a regular rest' -- which is I think the...

No, never. The ability to get a LR uninterrupted while the enemies get 8 hours of preparation around the Tiny Hut to be ready to alpha strike the party when the TH stops have had much less impact on my games than urban campaigns, where PCs expect get back home each night in highly civilized...

Is Lesser Restoration prevalent enough in campaign worlds to prevent, even when it actually cured diseases, contagions and epidemic campaign? I admit I ran an epidemic-themed adventure in Sharn without trying to assess the ability of a magical society to overcome the danger, but I assumed that...

Honestly, what kind of situation? Since the character casting See Invisibility is doing this to defeat the presence of invisible creature, he would be very well founded to devise a modus operandi with his group that whenever he's under See Invisibility, he will point with his hand and name any...

I'd go with the "shimmering aura" or just knowing the thing they see is invisible. If the GM tried to cheese it with "hey, why would you warn about this guy, to you he appears as if he were visible?" I'd try to out-cheese him and say "Well, technically See Invisibility allow me to see creatures...

I love your kitsune.

You will love this one. Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets https://www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-generated-robot-porn-on-his-government-computer-loses-access-to-nuclear-secrets/ He mistakenly (?) backed it up on DOE servers and...

True. The demand in lighting that couldn't be met earlier because it was too costly was met through the technological progress. There is no reason to think that more efficient computing will lead to less computing being used overall. The point that more efficient computing can reach the same...

As a side note regarding the "market fragmentation", China, which had been hit by export restriction regarding chips for AI computing, has retaliated by banning some Nvidia products and increasing crackdown on smuggled US chips: https://www.ft.com/content/8d5387f2-62b0-4830-b0e4-00ba0622a7c8...

Yes, it happens -- maybe the professor wrote the best book available on a specific topic, after all -- but I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable peddling a book I'd written myself to students. I usually give them a select bibliography with pros and cons of each book, and it must feel awkward...

Yes. Actually the Bain article isn't about AI-developping companies but datacenters investment. The article (at least the Bain & Co report) isn't about AI technology spending but the conundrum faced by datacenter investors. It doesn't identify shortage of investment as a risk to AI: while it...

I'd even say it's a subset of generative AI, it's commercial, web-based generative AI.