The word “professionalism” here a common dogwhistle for “obedience” and “conformity”. It’s use in this context is almost exclusively directed towards women, but also sometimes to black men.
When Micheal Burhnam disobeys orders it’s “unprofessional”, when Worf or Picard does it, it’s “bold”. When Ake sits down unconventionally it’s “unprofessional”, when Riker does it, it’s a quirky and beloved part of his character. etc. etc.
I guarantee that guy never once made an internet post about how Riker sits
lmao why do you care about “bad looks”? are you doing PR for chancellor ake? who the hell cares. I cannot express how weird it is to me that you care about that. Honestly I’m completely baffled as to why you care about how a fictional character who wouldn’t care about your option if she was real, but can’t care about your opinion because she’s not, presents herself.
I have to assume the people who think Star Trek is woke now also believe drag queens in the 90s represented good christian values
The opening theme was just weird! But I said the same thing about DS9 and Enterprise.
Now I love the DS9 theme. So maybe Academy’s will grow on me, too.
I had a funny feeling they were going to play this song, and I smiled when this cover started playing. I didn’t realize it was Rufus Wainwright! Good stuff.
Sure, but Wikipedia does not care about “truth”. “It’s true” is not a valid citation on Wikipedia (and “knowledge” is not the same as “truth”). Wikipedia is built on references from experts from people that can be honest while still being factually incorrect.
It’s an important distinction because an LLM can be correct but it can never be honest. The hypothetical Enterprise-D computer appears to be able to be honest, even when incorrect.
I thought I was in !startrek@startrek.website for a moment…
My take is that even if you consider LLMs to fall under the umbrella of “AI” (I don’t), they appear to be a completely different technology than the Enterprise-D computer, which is more like highly advanced natural language processing.
would you want a perfect AI that was incapable of lying or harbouring anything untrue?
It’s not really possible for an AI to know what’s true with 100% accuracy, but I do think it’s technically possible to invent an AI that is honest. It’s important to remember that LLMs are actually “hallucinating” 100% of the time. The only reason they are ever correct is because the training data was correct.
Ah yeah I’m with you. I actually think LLMs are a useful tool for that initial push- a search query, rough draft (or demo). But I’m not convinced they could ever move beyond that, since creating rigid, reliable structure isn’t what they’re designed to do.
Soong: Notices Tasha Yar
@Data remove the clothing
They may receive 5x the criticism and be 5x less effective at moving products, but if they turn out to be 10x cheaper to produce then that is still a huge net positive revenue-wise and allows them to make a lot more (and more targeted) ads
Note: I totally made those numbers up
uhhh ok? Any particular reason…?
The idea of Data’s whole life being the result of a prompt from Soong is hilarious
That’s a good point- if they were truly making a superintelligence, it wouldn’t be for sale, just like Coca-cola wouldn’t sell their recipe. They’re selling the shovels while insisting to corporate executives there’s a gold rush going on.
Exactly, they got Paul Giamatti for Spock’s sake. When an actor is at their level they can be choosy about the roles they take on.
I’m fairly OK with NuTrek trusting the audience less and driving a point home harder
I’m generally against this, but it’s also not like Star Trek ever gave us a reasonable expectation of subtlety… 
I can see someone else behaving like a 20 year old in need of therapy