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Section 31 actually fits pretty well overall with DS9's break in Trek history. Being that this series was finally one that gave the...

Inquisition, on the other hand, has aged less well, I think. It's still a well-executed episode and the beginning of the Section 31 arc...

This always seems to go back to what your group liked about D&D but why they don’t want to play D&D. For our group, 5E was the most...

I just finished reading The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo, an 1819 work by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, and even before I can get into...

Watched Change of Heart last night and it held up very well - in fact, I enjoyed it even more than I did 25 years ago, because I’ve now...

More like "okay, try to return it intac- oh, who am I kidding, I'll get a replacement on order."

This, surprisingly enough, can be a problem. Consider the self guiding vehicle. Now, consider the moral dilemma presented in the I Robot...

Interesting as well as mildly nostalgic for my late teens when I got through to FIST 1 (Final International Selection Test, the third...

More on the IMO Gold Medal. The two models that achieved gold aren't released to the public and many details are not known. However, the...

It’s neither “brilliant” nor “stupid” because it’s incapable of thinking. Which it the problem - people react to it as if it could...

Again, from my experience - telehealth means a lot of things, but it usually means synchronous remote communication (a phone call or...

Basic medical note - it’s reasonably common for chickenpox spots to become secondarily infected with bacteria, and it’s uncommon (but...

Purely anecdotal, so not provided as evidence of anything, but without prompting of any sort I was prescribed Penicillin for Chicken...

The problem is, people ARE trusting general purpose LLMs to make diagnoses or suggest dangerous self-help actions. We’ve seen that with...

There’s a reason why diagnostic programs are still significantly less accurate than living MDs.