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   Neil Kandalgaonkar (neilk@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 07:09:13 JST Neil Kandalgaonkar

   Every time Claude asks me if I want to see even more info about the topic, and I say “no thanks”, it babbles back summarizing and wrapping up the whole discussion, this polite chitchat costing the earth one 1 femtohurricane

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 07:09:10 JST Annika Backstrom

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     @neilk I think the answer is literally "where's the fun in that"

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     Neil Kandalgaonkar (neilk@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 07:09:12 JST Neil Kandalgaonkar

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     On the other hand, what a world. I can ask a question about pattern matching function signatures in Kotlin, cross a city street, and read a little tutorial by the time I’m on the other side. (For now, Claude cannot tell me if cars are approaching, so I have to keep my head up.)

     I’m not quite sure if I will be a permanently necessary part of the loop here. We always did wonder exactly why the Enterpise couldn’t just explore space on its own

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     Neil Kandalgaonkar (neilk@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 07:23:56 JST Neil Kandalgaonkar

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     • Annika Backstrom

     @annika 🤔Star Trek is clearly not about having fun, it’s a naval adventure + humanist allegory, with zap guns

     In some ways its view of the military was already outmoded on arrival

     In the future, if we have one, we will probably all have resources like today’s billionaires and the only reason to do stuff would be for fun, megalomania, impressing others. So yeah I can imagine a flying group home of bohemian aristocrats just trying not to be bored

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 16:06:48 JST Annika Backstrom

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     @neilk I very much get the sense people in Star Trek are doing the things they want to do, as opposed real life where we do what is demanded of us by capitalism

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     Neil Kandalgaonkar (neilk@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 09:22:47 JST Neil Kandalgaonkar

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     • Annika Backstrom

     @annika I can’t imagine anyone voluntarily joining a uniformed service with real, kill you very dead, courts-martial for disobedience

     It makes so much more sense if it’s advanced LARPing by bored post-humans. Maybe “the Federation” is just part of that group’s canon and the fact that they tell other civilizations it really exists is just their commitment to the bit