There are different levels of AI books, and websites like BN and Amazon ask on their submission what specifically was done by or assisted by AI to get a read on what authors are doing. Full AI written based on a bunch of prompts gets garbage, I agree there, and it’s also the easy route so the market is being flooded, especially the low effort ones, since that’s far easier to do than actual prose from AI. But AI can also have a subtle aid to an actual writer. I realize some people are dead set on zero AI, period, and I understand the reasons. It sucks we’ve gotten to this point where some incredible things can be done, and yet so much as been ruined by that progress too, when it could have been done better and more honestly.

I’ve used AI for coming up with assets for the cover, then using Gimp to add, modify, and make the final product. The books were done mainly to see if I could put them together and was fun to do. The hard part is actually selling any, it’s a nightmare for the same reason, oversaturation.

I will say that BN’s website sucks big time. I thought Amazon’s was flaky but figured it out, but I’m surprised I ever got books onto BN as much as it hangs, and I haven’t been able to get onto my account in a while to even see how the books are doing there, but I doubt I’ve sold any because I haven’t seen evidence, and I question who goes there now to buy a book.

Fix your website!

Oh, and they also just raised the minimum print price to like $14.99, so no cheap books, and if you have a low cost book there, no one is going to buy it now for those prices. Brilliant.

It’s not about finding habitat, but a large scale version of kill or be killed, or stay quiet and hope they don’t see you.

Definitely not to enslave. The path that the 3 Body Problem goes down is a science-based eldritch horror.

Right, it was simulated static, instead of the blue screen.

I knew I remembered that name. Great book and reference.

I was with Pizza Hut when we got that directive of empowerment to do what was best to retain the customer. No manager needed for most things, just treat them well. We had a lot of regular customers, I wonder why. That was a long time ago.

No, this isn’t right. Fediverse is on the edge of the pool, just getting feet wet. That’s a pre-Reddit user on a platform long gone.

I think early digital may have done that, but not analog.

You could get color if a weak signal drifted in (and had a color TV), but generally it was black and white. OP needs to take that pixelated mess back and fix it.

I’d say answer just to see if the Dark Forest is valid. If it is, honestly they’re going to find us eventually anyway.

So, Ender’s Game

Large NEOs are very unlikely at this point for the reasons you’ve given. It’s advanced warning on anything else that’s needed. Redirection is another topic, but we have no experience and only theory on the best ways to do it, and wouldn’t know which technique to try before a close examination (which means time to find it and get to it just to figure that out). As for advanced warning for evacuation, that’s probably the most likely scenario, but it’s also morbidly funny to mention in a thread discussing near misses found days before its passing, and often we see articles about the rock after the fact. (Although maybe it was known about before by experts, just didn’t hit the press in time)

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What’s needed is a 24/7 space-based observation system, not rely on leftover observation time on telescopes and amateur aid. The near misses are rarely even close, and the sizes are small enough to at most endanger a small area, but it’s a lesson that if there ever was a big one, we wouldn’t even know or be able to do anything. Find the big ones very early, we might be able to change the future, but we won’t find them with how we look now.

Depends on how you two resolve the disagreement.

Going to use that next time. My line is that I’m talking to myself because no one else is listening. And it’s only a problem if I start arguing.

I’ll bet the cause of that is simple. The one person who knew how to change the message no longer works there, and while that has been mentioned to the higher ups, it’s not a priority so it got shoved into the “to-do” pile.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s instructions to modify the system prompt to maximize effectiveness, and everyone leaves it at the generic default. Just like so many people leave other things at the default and just plug it in and go. Thank goodness the Cisco hold music is decent. I grew to love it while holding on the VA phone lines a lot for my dad.

Funny you mention a phone tree, something that’s been hit by AI. It’s actually been around longer as voice recognition that finds a close match to a keyword, but in theory AI should be able to take a request and break down what is actually needed.

I haven’t run across an AI version that works well. I don’t know if that’s because the voice recognition part is still bad, or if they’re using Co-pilot (since I know how it mangles simple requests in text).

You forgot the mandatory lead message. “Please listen closely as our menu options have changed.” No, they haven’t. Ever.

I didn’t know that. So they can’t even rebrand well.