What do you think happens when the people who are trying to be responsible and who are at least generally compatible with paying lip service to modern Western values, human rights, not developing bioweapons, etc, slow their development of AI including defensive AI while the people who *won't* do that - rogue and terrorist groups, foreign powers with less respect for human life and rights, etc - are allowed to continue their own development unabated? I don't agree with Cheeto Mussolini on a lot (and his comment along the lines of "the only guardrail AI needs is a strong US President" is idiotic) but he's right that these suggested limits amount to us volunteering to LOSE an economic and military arms race.

I'm very pro technology, and yet, I can't say they don't have a point - IF the point is that technology often continues to bloat and enshittify rather than optimizing to do more with less. Imagine how much faster the web would be if everyone building sites was still optimizing them like they had to work well for users on 14.4 modems. Please tell me what has been added to the latest version of Microsoft Word that is needed for most users and that wasn't possible in Wordstar in the late 80's. (I'm not saying there's nothing - I can think of a few things - but most of it could be modules that are added and switched on for those that need them. Microsoft Office and many of its alternatives are BLOAT.) And that's before we get into all of the marketing, DRM, etc. And every bit of it makes us "need" faster machines with more RAM and storage.

...the poor crews of the Excalibur and the Lexington.

Progress marches on, I guess.

"I was embarrassed, mortified even"

Was this Snagglepuss? Did he exit the store stage left?

My ChatGPT won't write a critique of Governor Whitmer or Senator Graham or :insert political figure here:, either. I'm not saying there's no bias in play at these companies or with these apps, but they have guardrails against discussing politics that are for reasons having nothing to do with those biases. Was this supposed to be a shocking result?

How about: The data centers are a freaking problem, but *also*, we want our public facilities to save energy and money where possible. When did we decide that the people/things we like should be able to be as wasteful or damaging as they want? Now, I 100% agree if the point is about priorities, but *taken by itself* there's nothing wrong with this request.

My hope is that this will be a case of useful idiots - the data center folks are going to overbuild in the boom and claim they'll need all of this power forever. They get the power industry to build their demand, and then when the data center market crashes, all of that power production gets used for more general purposes, where it is very much needed.

A second best scenario from a power production perspective, which I could also maybe see, is that the data centers *don't* fail, but their need for power drives efficiencies of scale and improvements in power production technology (and maybe finally using some safer nuclear designs we have but aren't using) and we end up with enough juice in the grid for them and the rest of us, anyway.

None of what I said here is addressing the issues with the data centers otherwise - they exist and we all know it, but I'm talking about power production and our needs there.

I'm not sure where you're getting that from. I know her background, but she also killed several AI initiatives related to XBox as soon as she was put in charge of it. "Only Nixon could go to China." And she has made several other good calls recently, too. I'm not sure if she'll be able to pull Microsoft out of the mess they've made, either because they've dug too deep a hole already or because they fail to listen to her, but so far, it sounds to me like she's *trying* to do sensible stuff, finally.

...under Kurtzman reveal themselves to be biased against animation. Because Lower Decks was great, and Prodigy might well be some of the best of Trek, period.

Season 2 (except for one episode) of Discovery was some of the best of Trek, also... it's a shame the showrunners turned it completely into The Michael Burnham Show (over-featuring how beautifully SMG can cry on demand) and didn't give the rest of the cast breathing room. As for it being "ruined by woke" or whatever, I'd offer that Stamets, Culber, and Adira were great characters. (Though I'll admit Gray Tal seemed to be there to check a box and was never well written, really.)

And, c'mon, Season 3 of Picard, at least, whipped butt. It was mindless fan service that could be picked apart in many ways, yes... but it was GREAT mindless fan service. :D And it took a bit, but I've actually come to really enjoy a lot from Season 2, as well. Especially the idea that it was *the Borg Queen* and not Agnes that chose for them to sing "Shadows of the Night". lol.

Some of you have forgotten how to have fun, and also how to do part of it while seeking a Mighty Marvel No-Prize after seeing something that doesn't immediately make sense but *can* if you give it some thought, play in their universe. Instead you're busy holding Trek to some supposed super high standard that rarely if ever existed. Brain and brain, what is brain, anyway?

I'm not as opposed to AI as many - but there's also no need for it here. Ron Glass was great and will be missed, but *Book* is a character, and especially with animation where we won't see the actor, anyway... re-cast. It might be disrespectful if Glass was available, but when an actor isn't, it happens all the time and isn't disrespectful unless done in a way that makes it specifically so.

It doesn't negate any copyrights or trademarks on content inside what is generated. My AI generated ad for an Acme brand slingshot can't be copywritten but that doesn't allow you to snag my Acme trademark for your own use.

And in related news, the Excalbur was destroyed with a loss of all hands, and three other heavy cruisers were seriously damaged.

At one point in the Activision acquisition (say that 5 times fast) he said they were going to actually DO something with the old Infocom IP. I waited patiently. He didn't do nuthin' except open source an absolutely ancient Z-code engine that nobody, even in the IF community, wanted or needed, because it has long since been vastly improved upon. (Okay, one or two people that run classic gaming museums might want that code just "for posterity", but meh.)

I'm not normally one to wish bad things on people, but I hope he found that his time at Microsoft ended with a very low final score, an insulting rank, and no way to undo, restore, or restart. ;)

I'd replace Sega in what you said with the new Atari (note my much lower Slashdot ID, lol), but otherwise, I mostly agree. I don't see Xbox as dead, though... I think before long it will just be a platform-agnostic system store and library like Steam, that also manages some developers and licensing of their game IP.

I'll concede it's my own personal conspiracy theory, but, I feel like the numbers you're talking about are part of a picture a lot of people are missing that to me suggests that the US and Denmark are playing kayfabe for Greenland. Before there was an increasing number of Greenlanders that wanted independence. Then Trump started rattling a saber, and Greenlanders started seeing a choice between Denmark and the US instead of Denmark and independence. I think both Denmark AND the US both care very little about which way Greenland ended up swayed - as long as it stays firmly in the orbit of one or the other and not free to build closer ties with nations we see as adversaries.