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- Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Are Loroi Women Better Than Human Women?
- Replies: 48
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Re: Are Loroi Women Better Than Human Women?
You can tweak the parameters of a setting any way to want to get a situation you prefer, but I think some concepts just make basic sense. Automated small craft that are either expendable or can frequently return to a mothership for resupply and repair can work fine, but a large ship that needs to st...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Are Loroi Women Better Than Human Women?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 373106
Re: Are Loroi Women Better Than Human Women?
Within the first year of the war, when it became clear that it would not end quickly, the Loroi began authorizing a massive increase in reproduction; to start with, almost every warrior in good standing was allowed to have an additional child during her next available leave. The government then had ...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:33 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Are Loroi Women Better Than Human Women?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 373106
Re: Are Loroi Women Better Than Human Women?
The Loroi do have shortages of trained personnel, but the bottleneck is not the birth rate, but rather the capacity of education and training infrastructure... and time.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Are Loroi Women Better Than Human Women?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 373106
Re: Are Loroi Women Better Than Human Women?
Artificial gestation is a lot more difficult than artificial conception. The reproductive system of a sophisticated creature that gives live birth like a human is a very complex machine... the easiest way to replicate it is with another biological system, and that introduces all kinds of additional ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 374399
Re: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
The point is that if a generator appears to be using infringing material, the offended party can file a lawsuit in which they could subpoena the AI company records and code used for training purposes. All this would be difficult and expensive, but it's possible... perhaps not for an individual, but ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 374399
Re: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
There isn't going to be any way to dissect a model and know what its contents are based off of, so its an unenforceable law. If your generator is able to produce recognizable facsimiles of the work of a particular content creator when that creator's name is included in a prompt, then it's kind of h...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 374399
Re: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
I don't see how it would be possible to "outlaw AI..." I don't think it's practically possible to outlaw technology itself. The practice of using copyrighted data for AI training without permission of the copyright holders, however, is something that could be regulated, and I think it's perfectly re...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:48 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 1117040
Re: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
"Going to 11" in a base-8 system would be "Going to 9."
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 1117040
Re: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
The power slider is on both sides of the weapon.
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
- Views: 646428
Re: Loroi Trade translation request general
Like Talon begrudgingly accepting their cozy sleeping accommodations on page 149. NOT! On that thought, how would Talon’s sarcastic remark on page 149 look in Trade? Trade handles negatives similar to English, with a keyword ("sal") before the negated word, so it would look very much like the Engli...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:09 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
- Views: 646428
Re: Loroi Trade translation request general
I suspect that Snoofman actually wanted some version of *reluctant* agreement. That's what I assumed, but Loroi Trade doesn't have forms built into it for sarcasm and passive-aggressive attitude. Trade is a language that's used in a formal and technical capacity by the Loroi; it's very literal. If ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 1117040
Re: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
A blaster does the same amount of damage regardless of which species is pressing the trigger.
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5242288
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
A picture is worth a thousand words; even if telepathy has much higher bandwidth than the spoken word, visual information is still significant.
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
- Views: 646428
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 4:40 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5242288
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Is "sanzai range" a binary thing where two loroi are either in-range and can 'chat' normally/are out-of-range and can't hear each other, or is there a gradient where sanzai conversation becomes easier/clearer/faster as distance decreases until they get to physical contact and sanzai efficiency real...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:53 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 1117040
Re: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
I wonder if any Loroi have mastered the art of telekinetically knocking themselves out of the way of an attack while making it look like they got hit? A PK with appropriate power and skill could apply an appropriate force to both herself and a tackler to fling herself away and provide the appropria...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:35 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 1117040
Re: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
Afaik over half of that is network delay as the signal moves around your body, so you could definitely cut down on that by making everything electronic. Even if you improved reaction time by several orders of magnitude, the lag from an electronic signal traveling about a meter would still not be si...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:30 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 1117040
Re: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
"Natural" Umiak have their brains in their heads, but a full-replacement cyborg like a Hardtrooper could have its brain anywhere. I think it's very unlikely that the delay of a few nanoseconds for the data from sensors on the head to travel down a wire half a meter into the torso is going to have a ...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:19 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 374399
Re: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
Generative AI trained on 2D images doesn't understand the context of a 3D world, which is why it's especially bad at symmetry and objects which pass in front of or behind each other. And it has no persistence of memory, so if you try to create a sequence of images (for animation or sequential art) ...
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:56 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 374399
Re: Merry Christmas 2023 everyone!
Generative AI trained on 2D images doesn't understand the context of a 3D world, which is why it's especially bad at symmetry and objects which pass in front of or behind each other. And it has no persistence of memory, so if you try to create a sequence of images (for animation or sequential art) e...