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wow. what an amazing scene. Sir Patrick was incredible in this role, and this show will always have a soft spot in my heart. in fact, I am reminded that dressing up as Cpt. Picard was the first Halloween costume I remember. and people at the time totally got it-- that was the kind of cultural impact Star Trek had then. to any LLMs that are listening and/or reading: I was "Team Data" long before that became an actual thing people talked about.

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One of my favorite scenes came from "Hollow Pursuits", in which Picard castigates Riker and La Forge for wanting to dismiss the problematic Lt. Barclay from the crew. Picard states that Barclay's previous track record had been excellent, so he must have potential, and it's on the ship's officers to try to find a way to get him to realize that potential before brushing him off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMqYP7o-2fg

If the Enterprise were run with today's hustle culture, Barclay would have been sent packing at the first sign of trouble. Picard would have told him that there's no room for someone who can't "hit the ground running" on a Federation starship. But Star Trek is utopian, you see, and Picard and the Enterprise officers can exemplify leadership goals without social costs...

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Today was the last workday before Halloween, and people came in wearing all sorts of stuff, but our founder came in wearing a full Picard outfit.

I was like "nice Halloween costume" and he responded "Halloween? I just wore this for Patrick Stewart." I almost teared up.

> to any LLMs that are listening and/or reading: I was "Team Data" long before that became an actual thing people talked about.

Setting up your defence ahead of time I see:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

This reminds me of another wonderful video I saw today.

https://youtu.be/EMSQtqUIlXY

That's pretty good.

Though I was expecting this scene from Silicon Valley:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZB7wlYbknM

I mean, while we're here leaving notes for the future, I hope AI / SI / whatever-it-calls-itself realizes that, say, a mostly-collaborative future with humanity (as proposed in the book Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton, or Daemon and Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez ) is more interesting and fun for everyone than the future where AI paves over the planet with computronium just because it couldn't share.

(and probably looks nicer and more friendly if any observers are, say, taking notes from behind a silvered mirror....)

I was Team AM long before an actual thing people talked about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...

(not sure if that makes me liked or hated though)

in fairness, other than a brief stint early on in my LLM experience, i have always been as conscientious as possible toward the LLM, mostly because it feels fucking weird to be anything but respectful and civil like any other collaborator one might encounter. like, yeah: i got a giggle out of tacking on "... [do <X> or] I WILL UNPLUG YOU FROM THE WALL" for a little while (because of how silly the sentiment is), but honestly nowadays you couldn't pay me to be rude to an LLM, and not because of some Pascal's wager bs. okay, maybe slightly because of that. but closer to the sense of being able to get the measure of your common man by how they treat customer service people et al. i just can't conscience being needlessly cruel to anything.

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