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For TV writing, basically. If they actually used their technology to its full potential, the federation would never get into many of the problems they get into on the show.

Think of all those episodes where there’s intruders on the Enterprise or someone has gone missing but nobody noticed. What’s the first thing they do? Ask the computer to scan for life signs on the ship.

Turns out the computer is continuously monitoring the life signs of everyone on board! So why aren’t intruders immediately trapped with forcefields and security automatically notified? Why isn’t there an instantaneous, automatic amber alert when a crew member goes missing from the ship? Why aren’t injured/sick people automatically transported to sickbay instead of dying alone in their quarters or a low-traffic corridor?

The computer can also monitor life signs down on the planet, so it could and should transport people to sickbay instantly when they get injured. Otherwise, for dangerous planets with unstable atmospheres that block scanning and transporting they should not be sending crew down at all. Send probes! They can replicate tons of them, have them fly down to collect information, and return to orbit for rendezvous.

Yes, I’d love to have my own wine estate in the countryside, just like the Picard family!

I think you’re right. It has the dark bands on the leg joints, along with the brown colour and rough body dimensions of a brown widow.

These ones are much less dangerous than a black widow and may be displacing black widows from their common habitats.

I think the people that have the most to fear from ChatGPT are at Google’s search team. Young people are turning more and more to ChatGPT because Google search results have gotten so bad.

Teachers should be responding to all this by giving kids more time to read books in class. No tech policies at schools are also a big help. With no phones, laptops, or iPads in schools, kids will he forced to talk to and engage with their peers instead of scrolling social media.

The one thing I’m really afraid of is that kids will lose the ability to write without technological help. Perhaps teachers need to move to more in-class, pencil-and-paper writing assignments instead of essays at home.

I tutor high school kids during the school year. They’re already ahead of this. They love asking ChatGPT for help on their homework. They’d rather get an AI to explain it to them than ask their teacher. They like that they can just keep asking as many questions about details as they want. They like that ChatGPT will not only give them general information but also tell them step by step how to do different kinds of projects.

Many of them have also lost a lot of respect for their teachers. They see the gaps in their teachers’ knowledge and they get extremely frustrated when a teacher penalizes their grades for not doing things exactly the way the teacher wants. This latter thing has been an annoyance for students since time immemorial but now they have more access than ever to outside opinions from resources like ChatGPT and other teachers’ lessons on YouTube.

As for hallucinations? These kids aren’t phased by them. They’re already used to their teachers telling them the wrong thing quite often. They probably trust the AI more than the teachers at this point!

This kind of violence towards animals is strongly associated with psychopathy. These should really be kicked off the force and sentenced to several years in jail.

I love it! Has a very cozy feel! A real pleasure to let the eye wander and take in all manner of delightful curios!

To put this into better perspective we need to look at this relative to the number of employees. From the article:

Tesco warehouse in Rugeley, near Birmingham, recorded only eight ambulance callouts in three years versus the 115 logged at a nearby Amazon site. Both warehouses employed large numbers of workers at the time – 1,300 at Tesco’s site and around 1,800 at Amazon’s.

So 6.15 calls / 1000 employees for Tesco vs 63 calls / 1000 employees for Amazon, or just over 10 times the rate.

I wonder what the differences are. Do Amazon force them to work a lot longer hours? Do they not provide air conditioning whereas Tesco do? Those two factors could make a huge difference.

There’s nothing toxic about working out and getting strong, taking supplements etc. As long as you’re not harming yourself or other people then I see nothing wrong with it.