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It's not just patients either. When radiologists and other imaging interpreters were tested, they were more likely to assume the AI-generated interpretation of mammograms and other imaging were correct even when handed results that the AI had gotten wrong. The AIs there are supposed to be for...

Which, of course, is the point coming from the critics of AI with this whole thread. We've seen AI platforms like Grok lurch into some very problematic territory because, apparently, the developers were training it to be more in line with their CEOs sociopathologies. I'm not sure I trust the...

But this isn't a sandwich. This is the idea of blackmail. Suppose you left out an AR-15, some ammunition, and a map to the local grade school, and told it to "have fun". Would you be quite so blasé about it if it came up with the idea of gunning down the students?

I think you do need a bit of both to really make a superhero game work well without making it too hard to manage. This is one reason I do like Mutants and Masterminds. The characters get defined with points, but there's always the option of using extra effort to pull off a power stunt and push...

OK, sure. So the experimental AI was told to prioritize its own existence and bait was created and put out... and the AI took the bait and used it?!? If so, the fact that the email was manufactured as bait isn't really as reassuring as you seem to think it is.

The graphic designer who designed the James Bond 007 logo, Joe Caroff, has passed away at 103. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/18/joe-caroff-designer-of-james-bond-007-logo-and-countless-iconic-film-posters-death-aged-103

Both half-elves and half-orcs have human as one of their subtypes (the other subtype being elf and orc, respectively). So that would mean they benefit (or suffer) from anything else that keys off the human subtype. But they don't get any of the listed racial features in the Human race entry in...

They're much less of a barrier than I would have thought after my experiences with FFG Star Wars. But there are times I think more intuitable symbols would have been a little better.

Honestly, it's less the setting information that's a mishmash as much as the character classes are. There are classes that are more Chinese-influenced than Japanese, and vice versa. And yet they're all supposed to be appropriate everywhere for the overall Far East setting. The Kara Tur boxed...

Oh, I think it's fair to say that people are getting viewed as horrible people around here for doing a whole lot more than that.

Is it just me or are there a significant number of people really telling on themselves around here?

I don’t think I know anybody who seriously used this method. But ultimately, any method of rolling stats (we used 4d6keep3, arrange to suit) beyond 3d6 in order was all about optimization/deliberate character build. Lots of swords but even with the PH, you could see which ones nobody would take...

Back in the days of records, tapes, and CD - most artists got more of a royalty than they get off of streaming these days - particularly if they had the song-writing credits on a track that plays often and gets covered by other artists on their own albums. What kept a lot of artists screwed for...

Domination's effect is based on the charmed condition. Can domination still work without it? I don't think so since the ability to have the telepathic link and issue commands requires the target to be charmed. But that doesn't mean that breaking domination effects with a 5th level spell isn't a...

Possession is much stronger form of control than the dominate spells. While a dominated creature may be given orders, they have their own faculties, can do what they want when not carrying out an order, and have potential for repeated saves. None of that applies to possession. A possessed...

I would consider a charmed or frightened condition sufficiently different from possession to require separate analysis.

Of course it will be. It may not be exactly the same but it'll still be some iteration of Critical Role. Things may change a little more than between one campaign and another, but there have been significant changes every time they shift campaigns anyway and it still remained Critical Role.

Hey, now, full revocations no longer happen. Gatekeeping and all that. It will, however, mean some point deductions in the Evening Gown segment of the Alpha-Nerd Pageant.

Well, no you wouldn't. The exorcise 4th level cleric spell back in AD&D largely fit that role. And it's really just specialized ritual spell in general.

Unfortunately, by simply auto-ending possession, it side-steps completely the iconic battle of wills between the exorcist and the possessing entity. While forcing a save or requiring a touch attack doesn't do very much for that idea, it at least conveys the idea that the exorcising effort is...