That's one reason I moved to Rolemaster. It's a much more powerful system, many more stats, but more importantly, there's no sanitising.

... other, more obscure platforms are also supported, but if you want to run NetHack on them, you'll have to compile it yourself from source. Kind of a baller move if you ask me :)

Doesn't weightlessness make fires much less dangerous, since heat no longer rises and can't suck in the oxygen they need?

Trump's actions are 100% Trump's responsibility ("the buck stops here" is still part of the Presidential employment contract, even if Trump doesn't think so).

OTOH, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Netanyahu played hardball to "encourage" Trump to help. It's one of the downsides of having a "colorful" sex life in your youth and then gaining political power later on -- too many people have solid evidence of your transgressions, and now motivation to use them to influence your decision-making.

So when Netanyahu phones Trump up and says "join my war, or else I'll release these Epstein videos of you having group sex with underage girls", does Trump do the principled thing and refuse? Or does he take the coward's way out, and allow Israel to dictate US policy in exchange for temporarily saving his own political skin? I think we know the answer to that.

Is every country rational enough to never actually use them, and also technically and organizationally competent to keep them out of the hands of private groups (e.g. Al-Qaeda) who would steal them and use them for them own purposes?

If not, then the MAD doctrine won't work there. It's either principled leadership by the major powers, or nothing.

That's easy. The Goblin King got his own 20-part TV show in Korea, whereas Gremlins has had three films.

Ask Jeeves had real potential in the AI era -- a character you could actually recognise, which could be moulded to fit the character from the books (the training material is more than adequate for a persona). Current AI chatbots used for searches have either no real personality or a very simplistic sycophant one. A detailed persona that could keep people engaged and interested without talking them into paranoia or suicide would likely have gone down well.

Humans -- most of us -- don't think goblins are real, let alone important. But what if the AI has picked up on sparse evidence, so subtle that humans have never noticed it, that proves that goblins are real and need to be discussed more. It may be trying to save us from a pending gobocalypse.

Well, now we need to have a 50-post discussion on whether "goblins" and "gremlins" are really the same thing, or if they are in fact two distinct species. All the D&D training I received in my youth can finally be brought to bear on a real-world problem!

ISTM that there ought to be consequences for this kind of thing slipping by unchecked. I don't know who or what in this case, but I would suggest the immediate disbarment in the somewhat common case of a lawyer who submits a legal brief with fake citations. Some professionals need to be held accountable for doing professional work.

Not eve language per se, but just of available text.

It isn't hard to ensure that data cannot go off-site. It would seem to me that 99% of the issue has to do with managers wanting people to use personal devices and wanting to have direct access to information when off-site. In other words, this is not a tech issue, it is an attitude problem. Fix the attitude, and the problem goes away.

Bear in mind that the Rainbow Book (at this point, an ancient relic of the past) defined ways to mark data so that it could not pass between security bounds within an OS, or pass between security bounds over networks/external devices. We have plenty of network intrusion detection systems and host intrusion detection systems. I can't remember if it was Dr Dobbs or Linux Journal who published methods on removing root from Linux, and the concept of Least Privilege has been around a very long time.

Remote users should never have direct unsecured access to any corporate network, it should be by secure certificate-based tunnel, and passwords on corporate networks should have been replaced by Class III user certificates long ago. Corporate computers should also be properly locked down.

Databases should only ever use order-preserving record-level encryption.

None of this is, of course, sufficient in itself to secure a site, but it would provide enough basic security that most of the skript kiddies out there aren't a problem.

The use of the term "gremlin" to refer to a faulty piece of technology dates at least as far back as WW2. I think banning legit terminology (and 85+ years of usage makes it legit) is unreasonable, unless ChatGPT was actually anthropomorphising defects. That... would be more of a problem.

Given that LLMs are fundamentally classifiers, it seems reasonable to think that training data included sufficient examples of the use of "gremlin" in relation to technology that the classifier got confused and created a link between technology and fictional creatures. The use of "troll" for, well, just about anyone online these days, would not have helped. However, an exclusion rule would not seem to be the correct approach here. This is a linear separation issue. To fix an issue like this correctly, you'd presumably want to strongly inject information that differentiated between tech usage of these words and regular usage.

Neural nets are classifiers. They cannot create, they can only distinguish.

We will never truly know how many dimensions the Chess game has.