Is Threshold worse than Code of Honor?

I’d say it’s worst. Being racist is horrible, but it wasn’t until “Threshold” that ST became actively and willingly stupid.

If not the most imaginative, certainly the most inspiring, and it evokes a strong insertion in our reality.

Ah, got it. I thought you meant the SciFi (later SyFy) Channel series.

I’ll start with the SciFi series when I finish the fantasy one.

Nope. Get as far as you can of the “Earthsea” TV series. LeGuin enragedly denounced that travesty.

It is when the people tends to give more credence to entities that appear sentient and to have agency.

I even spell out okay.

Which is funny, because it originated as an initialism for “Oll Korrekt”.

Many worthy things are difficult.

Steven Spielberg specifically said that he would continue Kubrick vision for the movie. And the Pinocchio discussion Brian Aldiss had was with Kubrick, not with Spielberg.

So be careful not to cut yourself with that edge. You don’t seem to be handling it well.

The Kubricking extends beyond The Shining. A. I. is a horrible travesty of the original short story. The author begged him not to do that idiotic retelling of Pinocchio, but Kubrick didn’t listen.

This isn’t some secret but literally how LLMs work. lol

Yeah, but John Q. Public reads AI and thinks HAL 9000 and Skynet, and no additional will convince them otherwise.

We anthropomorphize machines all the time, it’s fine.

It’s fucking not, amd I’m not changing my mind about it.

It’s a really bad term because it’s usually associated with a mind, and LLMs are nothing of the sort.

I think obvious that she would have sided with Maddox and disagreed with the ruling. I don’t think her capable of overcoming her prejudices against artificial life forms.

This in particular is from Jack Chick, who also belonged to a group convinced that the KJV is the result of a new revelation.

These comics are known as Chick Tracts.

Specially when it’s hijacked to run other things instead (cough cough snaps).

Humans eventually found a way to detect them and create a reliable, repeatable, predictable way to detect them and show that detection in a way we can perceive.

That’s what makes the “you can’t see wind either” idiocy even more infuriating.

So I’m wondering what I can do to keep in the loop with my younger brothers and sisters?

The question is completely weird to me. Why do you care? Why do you think that is important?

I am a touch typist and laptop keyboards are fine.

Were in violent disagreement, then.

repairability […] it’s not really something you can’t do without

Being able to disregard e-waste and discarding a whole machine when something fails is a privilege that not everyone has. If you leave in a wasteful country whose society benefits from the wealth produced by destroying other countries, I can understand the mental blindness.

is the price to pay for mobility (which is something that could be considered essential)

For whom? For me it’s certainly not.

If you use a laptop with full peripherals, it can act as a desktop when there is no space

A laptop with many peripherals tends to occupy nor horizontal space, not less. And the fragile hubs needed for expansion are a frequent point of breakage.

You obviously are not a touch typist. I am.

Laptop keyboards are, as someone said, like running barefoot on cement: you can do it for short periods, but if you do it for a long time you start feeling the effects. I need to use a full width keyboard to be confortable programming. And not any full width keyboard; I need the ones where the keys are sculpted and their curvature varies (like the inside of a sphere) depending of the position of the keyboard. That way I can have a good feedback of the position of my fingers, again, without needing to watch the keyboard. If I’m going to connect a full keyboard to a laptop, I may well get a full desktop computer.

Why a desktop:

• if something craps out, is easier to change individual components in a desktop.
• my current desk is overcrowded and also is not designed to house a laptop and an additional monitor
• I despise using laptops for gaming and for anything that doesn’t require mobility. My serious computing is static, not mobile. My work provides me a laptop, but I can easily work from home, and also they don’t provide desktops. For my own machine, my choice is desktop, period.

I work in IT and I enjoy programming. No way I can live without a computer (a desktop computer, in particular).