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    D&D General Festivals, Fairs, and Holy Days

    Why wouldn't it be okay? It's a messageboard... post what you like. You don't need anyone's permission. Cool list!
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    AI is going to hack us.

    I think the term you mean is Machine Learning, not Large Language Model. Machine Learning is not intelligence. It's essentially using various mathematical/statistical models to make predictions. It is learning, in a sense, but it doesn't resemble what anyone would consider intelligence.
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    AI is going to hack us.

    Is your concern that people will interact with text generated from LLMs as if it was spoken by human beings, or that this generated text will somehow become sentient and kill us all?
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    The price of streaming vs out right owning

    I like to save money for things I really enjoy. Letting money drip away on things I don't use or care about is anathema to me. My money goes in one of three directions: into bare necessities, it's saved/invested, or it's spent on something awesome for me, my kids or my friends.
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    D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly

    You keep posting in this thread. Your posts are all about anger and personal opinion. You're passionate about this topic, I get it. What your passion fails to bring to the table though is substantiation. If you want anyone to take what you're saying seriously, have you considered stuff like...
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    If you couple the essay with an in-class presentation by the student discussing the essay...
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    Essay writing teaches you to communicate effectively and to organise your thoughts. I think it's a valuable exercise myself.
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    Spoilers THUNDERBOLTS* (spoilers I guess?)

    Although, with the blip, if you disappeared, you have to deal with everyone you know, and the world you knew being five years old. If you didn't disappear, half the people you knew were gone from your life, and there was no hope for return.
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    [Prime] Citadel

    I tried to watch it. Not terrible! But still too goofy for my tastes.
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    Your most "visceral" experience at a movie theater.

    When I was 5 years old, I went to the local public library on a Saturday, where they hosted a kids' afternoon. The movie they showed that day was Nosferatu. That is hands down the most affected I've been by a movie, ever.
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    AI is going to hack us.

    Not at all what I was saying. What I actually am saying is that the definition of potentially dangerous must be reasonable. If I say: "I have never walked down this street before; how do I know it isn't infested with saltwater crocodiles? I'd better conduct some experiments just to be sure!"...
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    What are must read short stories?

    So many to choose from... How about Oscar Wilde? The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince are incredible.
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    AI is going to hack us.

    You have completely failed to understand the point I was trying to make. I appreciate your attempt at a rational response though. But maybe go back and reread and try again.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    When you take an argument that's not between legality and morality, and you try to create a barrier to discussion by saying it actually is a discussion between legality and morality, I'm not sure there's much to discuss.
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    AI is going to hack us.

    Err... wut? That might be objectively true at times in the real world, but it sounds like you're saying that this approach makes sense. Clarify please. Yes and no. Caution is warranted when a particular stance can show at least some sort of sensible, arguable, reasonable causation between event...
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    AI is going to hack us.

    Still worth discussing because 'similar' does not equal 'the same', but this issue strongly points away from the 'hey you guys! Look what I found!' direction.
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    AI is going to hack us.

    What subjects do you teach?
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    I have to second this @MoonSong . That is in fact the literal point of training models. Training a model is the process of feeding information into the model so that future queries relying on the model interpret those queries to include that new information. I understand the point you are...
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    Actual Play - The Mutant Epoch: The High Desert Session 20 live now!

    If you put more description in your posts about what this is, what's going on, something to tease a viewer into clicking a link... you might have more success.
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