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Mod Note: Having a different opinion from you does not justify insulting people. You have earned yoruself a warning point, and a ban from this thread. Treat people better.

My answer remains the same, for two reasons. 1) In fact, while the results of your neurology, cognition, and process of creation may seem to be very similar to the machine's result, under the hood, during the process, they are not really much alike at all. 2) As noted - if we do not reserve...

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You asked what was the difference between the machine doing a job, and you doing the job. In asking that you are questioning the divide between us and tools. When we argue that there's no difference between us and our tools, that means we are tools. Maybe you want to be a tool. I do not.

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You are a human being. The machine is not. Perhaps you would like to be treated as we treat machines? I am sure there are people who want to treat you like a machine, with no more rights than a toaster. The results of arguing that there's not much difference between us and machines does not...

This is the one that gets me. Artists are creators too. There is another thought that comes to mind - if you use AI generated art, how much confidence do I have that you didn't use AI to generate the text, too? Very little. So, if I buy that product, I'm probably not supporting any creator at all.

Yeah, I'd heard. Poor guy.

Really? That's your reaction to folks not agreeing with you? Getting accusative? Thanks. You've shown me all I need to know about this interaction. Have a good day.

They have explicitly stated that they will be working between the series and movie. I mused about eventually reaching beyond that because canonically there's like 6 or 8 months of time in there, which is a pretty hard limit.

As if you had statistics on that? You don't see it often, personally? That's awesome. I don't see it at my table, because my table is made of friends I've had for a decade and more. But, if someone's playing at their FLGS or something, I would expect the bag to be more thoroughly mixed.

*Bacta tank. With respect, vacuum exposure will kill you, just like any other form of suffocation. While there are thankfully few actual human cases to base off of: You are probably conscious for 15-30 seconds. You can be exposed for a couple of minutes and eventually make a full recovery...

Not in this case. Disney currently owns the IP rights. Disney also owns Hulu, who were on deck to make it. So, it would have been Disney paying license fees to itself.

Mod Note: I would like to remind folks that while discussion of social phenomena within our hobby is usually fair game, discussion and/or commentary of real-world politics and religion are not. There have already been a couple of steps over the line, including in the OP itself. Please do not...

There was no "hacking" involved. There was merely an attempt to control who was nominated for Hugo awards by presenting a slate of candidates, and having supporters all nominate that slate, to concentrate voting power. While they managed to stack the nominations a couple of times, it wasn't...