#babylon-5 — Public Fediverse posts

My wife works with a Bo and Rick and every time she mentions them, I just hear Bo and Mack. I love A View from the Gallery.

#Babylon5

Why does no one ever speak of the curse of Bablyon 5? Of 17 regular cast members, 7, or 41% are dead. Many of them died far too young.

Compare this to the top 16 cast members of Deep Space Nine, and you see only three deceased cast, or 19%

I think I'd rather be a drummer for Spinal Tap.

#sci #babylon5

Serien, die ich echt sehr gerne noch mal zum ersten Mal sehen würde, wären #Babylon5 #DS9 #theShield #SonsofAnarchy #Buffy Und ihr?

I really liked this post from #JMS (creator of #Babylon5 and many other things) on why #AI isn't a threat to good story writers:

https://jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-where-a-story-might-have

He argues that LLMs lack the human experiences needed to write compelling and novel stories, and explains why.

I'd take issue with one point:

> But not a heck of a lot about whether it has an unconscious.
> Because the answer is immediately self-evident: no. There is only the data it has scraped, and the information programmed and designed by others.

I'd argue that LLM AIs *do* have an unconscious -- in fact they are arguably almost entirely unconscious and every interaction with an LLM gives you a window into its unconscious and the associated biases.

However, their unconscious is very much unlike a human unconscious. It isn't filled with first-hand experiences of a life lived and books read. It is filled instead with what it has learned from reading a large corpus of materials. It is much closer to an alien in this regards -- one with no lived experiences and that has learned only about humanity and our world from reading transmissions from Earth.

I do think that some year it could be *possible* to make an AI that could do storytelling, but by infusing it with a lifetime of human experiences across a range of senses. However, this quickly turns into an ethical dilemma worthy of a serialized scifi story -- any AI that *could* do good enough storytelling would also be close enough to being a Person and sentient that having it run in a loop of living for hours at a time to spit out some story and then to have its self obliterated and reset would be highly unethical.

#Babylon5 damn me, Lwaxana Troi is the late Centauri Emperor's third wife!

#Babylon5 well, quite.

#Babylon5 ah, Earthdome go fasc. Istr last time we watched this I thought "gosh, that's terrible, lucky it can't happen again." Ugh. 🤢

#Babylon5 ah, the book of G'Kar. I can't decide if it's meant to be De Excidio Britanniæ or Mein Kampf 😬😬😬