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Wow. Bad example. Like, there are about two mass shootings in the US each day. So, basically, you're asking me if I'm so sanguine with an AI getting an idea that HUNDREDS of humans do each year already. I suggest that worrying about one AI, vs 700+ humans, would be a mistaken priority.

I mean, it is like saying, "I told it to make lunch, left out bread and cold cuts on the counter in plain view, and it came up with a sandwich." When you set up a perfect scenario, and ask it to find a scenario, one should not be surprised that it finds the one you specifically set up for it...

If folks are going to bring up Wushu, then Feng Shui is also a contender.

I can't say I really care that much. There's tons of way a character can go without keying off one suspension from duty as a central element.

I think you are overstating your case a bit. In North America alone, researchers found that the indigenous people had no less than 307 numbering systems. Only about a third of those were base 10. Meanwhile, you call it rare, but nearly a quarter of the systems were base 2. Meanwhile, you say...

The question is whether that is ESSENTIAL to an episode of character development for her or not. As in: can they absolutely not do development for her if she isn't suspended, or something? Not "would it have been cool", but "is it necessary. If not, the complication it imposes on the...

People can be super-optimistic about AI with anything, and that's part of the problem - the optimism is not directly linked to the nature of the technology. As compared to being optimistic about, say, mRNA tech, which actually can be part of a medical revolution, because it is at least a...

I think the point is that you still get to choose when to speak. Self-editing is likely the most important of messageboard-use skills. This thread should not be about board etiquette, so I'm going with some official points in red text to stave off argument. Nobody is entitled to having...

If you look around, I think you'll find that significant swaths of the public have had their credulity dial turned to 11 these days. Our collective appetite for egregious but comforting or emotionally satisfying lies is vast, and we swallow them like frogs swallow flies - without chewing them...

But then, why bother having her suspended for the story if it doesn't keep her from engaging? There's nothing specific about the suspension that we cannot do without for her character building. It isn't like they restrict folks from working outside their expertise - with M'Benga doing work in...

Heaven's knows my wife and I are doing a lot of re-watching of older shows these days.

I'm aware. I'm just speaking to why they don't do her development while she's suspended.

She's not in action while suspended. In the past, with 20+ episode seasons, maybe they'd give us one that's really quiet, and not much happens, such that we could explore her at rest, so to speak. But with short seasons, each episode needs to be major stuff happening, which she's not supposed...

I ran years of Classic Deadlands - which uses playing cards AND dice. I'm about to run Savage Worlds, same. I don't seem to have an issue with cards.

People with PTSD don't necessarily have an issue every day, or every time they are stressed. It isn't that predictable for most who suffer. The real error here is that the Federation doesn't recognize the problems of PTSD in their officers, even when we already know about it now.

I don't think we know the Stardate for the episode. There can be a significant gap between episodes, with the suspension passing in the background. We aren't going to see development of the character if the character is suspended, sitting on her hands in her quarters.

Mod Note: For whatever reason, you seem to having some trouble with making this stick. You keep saying you are going to disengage, but then you reply again. How about we end this. If you cannot disengage, we can disengage you. You're done in this discussion.

Mod note: Yep. And it is also politics. And, while I largely agree with you, that is about as far as these thread can go. Thread closed.

I don't have an issue with Fudge dice. But I otherwise don't own any RPGs that require custom dice to play. Which means I am probably mildly turned off by them.

Yes, but they were also still 7000 people. A goodly sized town, all at once. Kirk was having the most common moral quandary in heroic fiction - when you fight monsters, you must be careful to not become a monster yourself. The fastest road to heck is to say, "Well, they were bad people, and...