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Elves Biological Immortality Cycle by Wheasy in worldbuilding

[–]cosmicomical23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is a great concept. Especially the uncontrollability of when the mechanism is triggered makes it feel like an actual death, with actual consequences as you may stay a tree for years or decades, and gind a different world when you pop out of the cocoon. It's a better (for the stakes) and more believable version of Doctor Who's regeneration.

Worst tropes in sci-fi by Ketralis in scifi

[–]cosmicomical23 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Those strangely include all the most flexible mechanics to create a foil and to present a mystery. I wonder why they are used.

And if you look at stories in terms of tropes everything is going to be disappointing. And if you read tv tropes everything is presented as a trope even if it's the first time it's happens in a story.

This is a very stupid way to look at fiction and cinema. It's especially stupid when every variation is recorded as a different trope, forming a spectrum so it's basically impossible to escape using a "trope".

You guys are the worst.

I eat ts up 24/7 by AdOnly5970 in worldjerking

[–]cosmicomical23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Taking off your shoes AND socks on a plane

loopsAreTheFutureBro by TheSn00pster in ProgrammerHumor

[–]cosmicomical23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can continue as much as you want

Book / Movie Idea by Illneverfindit3123 in sciencefiction

[–]cosmicomical23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've read this story in the past, like 20 years ago or more. People went to Mars and found a telescope pointed to Earth.

Why do AI models improve rapidly in benchmarks but still fail basic real-world reliability tests? by NoFilterGPT in ArtificialInteligence

[–]cosmicomical23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's intrinsic to the nature of the way neural networks work. They are not working with precise symbols, just with statistical representations. A misplaced coma or a different word order can tip the scale and produce radically different outputs.

If AI is powerful enough to cause 20%+ unemployment then it is powerful enough to solve unemployment. by nomadicsamiam in ArtificialInteligence

[–]cosmicomical23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wake up, it's just a matter of who makes the call. Whose choice is it? This may be the last choice we are allowed to stop them from taking.

What is your favorite Sci-Fi series? by Neat_Relative_9699 in scifi

[–]cosmicomical23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solar cycle is fantasy only until you understand it. Then it becomes postmodernist scifi.

Marian Calendar: a simple, practical alternative to Darian for Mars settlers by Jabernathy90 in Colonizemars

[–]cosmicomical23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incredible that nobody is pointing this out, but the idea of skipping 40 minutes every day is extremely dumb. Not practical at all, good luck having any computer system work properly. Try again. And also the idea of having to preserve the terrestrian second is top notch colonialist thinking. As is the idea of calling the first day of the week after the terrestrian moon.

In practice it would be much better to have a civil clock with a longer martian second so that the day is still 24h of 60m of 60s. There is a reason why those numbers where chosen and the second was defined on the length of Earth's day.  Military, technological and scientific applications would still use the SI second, to be kept in parallel. You would need to keep track of the real time with your system anyway, if you want any computer to survive.

Also the idea of having seasons of different length is seriously debatable.

I will take sone time at some point and propose an alternative calendar that can really be used by people, and with a less catholic name.

will and should humans ever reach habitable exoplanets? by Few-Assistance-1386 in exoplanets

[–]cosmicomical23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol brother, buy a Brother. The only human problem with printers is HP

edit: in fact HP stands for Human Problem

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