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They wanted so badly to incorporate key parts of the books that they were willing to change things around to get to them you mean?

Just a single example that bugged me: I will be the first to admit that Robert's gender sensitivity wasn't something to be shouted from the rooftops, although for the 90s when he started he is far from the worst.

However, he did have the plot point of a male chaneller in a female body with Halima. The show making Nynaeve a potential Dragon reborn candidate opens the door to the idea of peoples access to the One Power being based on their gender identity not their gender presentation.

It turns an unthinkable plot point in the latter part of the story into something Aes Sedai have obviously assumed can happen from the outset, and would surely be something they are alert to.

Almost like they didn't understand the source material.

They seem to be really leaning in to having a very episodic format with the storylines having something to say about a specific topic and using a particular framing device to explore it. I gotta say that I can feel them aligning with TOS.

There's 9 episodes left and they have to move a few characters along to smoothly lead in to the TOS remake that will likely happen to gain back an audience after the Ellisons push for Right Wing Conservative Trek and sink the franchise.

Should be amusing to watch all the grifters who have been bleating about Woke Trek proceed to not watch any of it once it's been specifically made to pander to them.

I have watched the whole lot and honestly would have been better for them to make it a story inspired by some of the key events of the Foundation series. It's a space opera like star wars, not a serious take on the events of the books.

That being said it is a spectacle. The whole Imperial rule of the Cleons is a really interesting concept when you let go of the way it doesn't fit the books, and not just because of Lee Pace's abs.

I rate it a hell of a lot higher than The Wheel is Time, that didn't weave in an out of the original story line, it actively shat on Robert Jordan's subtle and detailed world building. Every half arsed lazy strategy they used to write the dumbed down baby's first fantasy tale version of the books made it more and more impossible to complete the story. The best thing that happened to that show was cancellation before they screwed it up any more.

If your prayers demand you be a bigoted anti trans piece of trash it's time you rethought your diety. Any maximally good diety would be judging your hatefulness, so you are praying your God will strike you down, or you are praying to a hateful petty god.

I really enjoyed the last conversation I had with a Christian about this topic... He did not.

Can't wait for the wave of people kicked out of stores because the AI shit the bed and confused them with someone else.

I just think the key to doing this stuff right is to make the executive level personally and financially responsible for any mistakes and any crimes, "Oh Coles shared too much info offshore and led to a data leak with identity theft... Hope the board enjoys spending the next 4 years in general population." Oh and time to sell the yacht and the mansion to pay the fine.

Apparently they get paid the big dollars because they make the big calls, time for them to face the big risks too. That would keep the bastards honest.

Of course it will never happen, we like corruption in government way too much to make rich people face consequences.

It all used to be very easy in Australia, you bought the phone at a supermarket and gave bogus info when registering the SIM. Then the "War on Terror™" began and the government started taking things a bit more seriously started mandating the paper registration forms needed to be completed or the retailers could get in trouble. But your average supermarket worker wasn't going to take the time to do that and it was way too widespread for the government to actually crack down on it.

Took a few years but the Telcos started actually paying attention to the fact that the majority of prepaid phones weren't getting completed paperwork at point of sale so they just moved to make all sim card activations require online or over the phone ID checks.

Every bit of training I ever did made it clear it was all about catching terrorists, drug dealers and paedophiles, which of course means "We want all that juicy data without citizens asking any annoying questions."

Just like radium has (a very few) legitimate uses, so do LLMs. Stop using them as a thought/research replacement and use it sparingly. Natural language processing for instance is a good use. But it should never be feeding that into another LLM to action the speech it has interpreted and taking all agency away from humans IMHO.

My fault, I missed the "Stop AI" at the end.

He is right, accelerating climate change, wealth disparity and economic collapse is likely going to unite a lot of us, probably not the way he suspects though.

It is a really good filter for me, any company that wants to harvest the bogus information I will use to access them had better do a good job of convincing me it's worth the effort.

I have a similar take on online stores wanting me to create a login to get a shipping cost, unless they are offering a truly unique item, or outrageously good price I just don't buy anything from them.

If we all had a similar standards these bits of UX fuckery would disappear over time, unfortunately most people don't even think about it.

Guessing that would be They Live. Haven't actually watched it myself but cultural osmosis being what it is... Anyway here is some more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live

I'm comparing LLM based "AI" to radium. The data centres are just the paint factories in this analogy.