#babylon5 — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hi Mastodon

I'm more active on the admittedly bug-ridden app UpScrolled. I have a "final" B5 Proposal: namely a #whatif Sinclair was commander for five years but Sheridan is in it also. I don't know if it's sufficiently different enough to warrant being a reboot ; of course I do have other ideas : namely what if the appearance of the Minbari is what ends the Dilgar War and , later, the commander of #Babylon5 has to seek these mysterious aliens out and enlist their aid against the Shadows (?)

Hi Mastodon

I'm more active on the admittedly bug-ridden app UpScrolled. I have a "final" B5 Proposal: namely a #whatif Sinclair was commander for five years but Sheridan is in it also. I don't know if it's sufficiently different enough to warrant being a reboot ; of course I do have other ideas : namely what if the appearance of the Minbari is what ends the Dilgar War and , later, the commander of #Babylon5 has to seek these mysterious aliens out and enlist their aid against the Shadows (?)

I was excited to join Baz & Luke on this episode of #ADreamGivenForm talking "And The Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place" from season 3 of #Babylon5. Bonus: I get to sing! #nerdlyfe https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NWcfd0Qgoll0hj2mvq3D3?si=3a974d2e48a548df

I was excited to join Baz & Luke on this episode of #ADreamGivenForm talking "And The Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place" from season 3 of #Babylon5. Bonus: I get to sing! #nerdlyfe https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NWcfd0Qgoll0hj2mvq3D3?si=3a974d2e48a548df

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

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

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

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

#Babylon5 well, quite.

#Babylon5 well, quite.

#Babylon5 well, quite.

#Babylon5 well, quite.

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

#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, 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 😬😬😬

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

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

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

@Priyajsridhar

#Writephant 2026.0504 — A2. Do you have a favorite work that is either set in space or a celestial body that isn’t Earth?

Plenty. Not only do I write SF, I read it. However, let's stick to media.

I love Firefly. From beginning to end, it was weirdly interesting and fun, with a pure demonstration of how to lampshade facts you really don't want to have to explain. I'm often offended when obvious science is gotten wrong, but the characters and plot lines had their own consistent logic and I went with the quirkiness.

I also loved the last series version of Battlestar Galactica, except for the very last episode. They made a think about FTL rules, and I felt they got the military milieu exceptionally well, with the robotics explained well enough to make it all consistent and believable—except for the very end where the story went so far off the rails, it launched the locomotive directly to high orbit. Otherwise, good SF, showing how technology affects humans.

I'll give a shout out to Babylon 5 for mixing idealism and multiculturalism in a way much better than most TV SF ever did.

#Firefly #Babylon5 #BattlestarGalactica #FTL

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#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #thriller #romance #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

Oh, it was this day today!

#mayTheFourth #stupidJoke

#doctorWho #starWars #babylon5 #farScape

As I don't have a pinned #introduction I thought I'd post one, particularly for new followers, although my profile is fairly descriptive.

I'm visually impaired due to LCA. I'm a practicing Catholic. I was born Jewish and became a nondenominational Protestant for a while before becoming Catholic in 2007.
I've been working in the blindness assistive technology space for 35 years, doing tech support and then providing technology training for both children and adults. After that, I was a product manager with Comcast's accessibility team. I'm currently the marketing director for Blazie Technologies, which develops Braille oriented computers for blind consumers, powered by Raspberry Pi.
love science fiction, with #DoctorWho and #Babylon5 being my two favorite series. I've been a Doctor Who fan for 41 years and enjoy the TV series, books as well as professional and fan-produced DW dramas. I love audio theater, both old time radio as well as modern audio drama. I primarily enjoy science fiction drama but I also have a special place in my heart for Gunsmoke, which I feel was one of the best OTR shows of its time, as far as its writing and audio production.
I also enjoy watching videos and reading books on apologetics as well as about religious cults; their beliefs and how we as Christians should respond to their claims. I love clean, wholesome puns and I often am unable to resist responding with them.
I love cats. I probably wouldn't be allowed on Mastodon if I didn't.
I use both #JAWS and #NVDA for screen reading.
In the tech world, product support is always my first love.
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Favorite OTR show: the Shadow
Favorite foods: any type of pasta, love spaghetti and meatballs. Also sushi.
#AssistiveTechnology

Name your top 15 TV Shows, gut instincts only #Deadwood #RobinofSherwood #TrueDetective #SharpObjects #Rome #TheWire #Skins #Ultraviolet #BlueEyeSamurai #Babylon5 #Carnivale #SixFeetUnder #NormalPeople #ImAngesichtdesVerbrechens #GameofThrones #AKnightoftheSevenKingdoms #Columbo #Watchmen …

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Name your top 15 TV Shows, gut instincts only #Deadwood #RobinofSherwood #TrueDetective #SharpObjects #Rome #TheWire #Skins #Ultraviolet #BlueEyeSamurai #Babylon5 #Carnivale #SixFeetUnder #NormalPeople #ImAngesichtdesVerbrechens #GameofThrones #AKnightoftheSevenKingdoms #Columbo #Watchmen …

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Last night I watched the penultimate episode of #Babylon5. I was going to watch the last episode as well, but it had gotten late and I decided that it would be more fitting to watch the series finale along with the season premiere of the next series I'm watching: #Farscape

I never watched Farscape when it was airing, and I've heard good things.

@inthehands Does that make you Minnbari?

#B5 #Babylon5

@mwl JMS was uncanny in drawing on the past and predicting a future both near and far. The parallels from its many story arcs to today is amazing. I keep expected to see a shimmer of a #Shadow standing behind #MrTaCO

#Babylon5 Is worth watching. The character of G'Kar is especially brilliant #B5

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #SciFi #StarTrekTheNextGeneration #Babylon5 Classic Sci-Fi Shows That Are More Relevant Than Ever http://dlvr.it/TRRl4R

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2026/02/15/12892/babylon-5-%e4%b8%8a-youtube-%e4%ba%86/

Babylon 5 上 YouTube 了

#5 #b5 #babylon #babylon5 #series #tubi #tv #youtube

You may have heard that you can now watch Babylon 5 on YouTube. Just so you know, none of the people involved in making the show receive anything when you watch.

#Babylon5 #B5 #YouTube #television ##ScienceFiction

Babylon 5 on nykyään ilmaiseksi youtubessa. Siitä katsomaan jos joltain vielä puuttuu yleissivistyksestä.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/

#babylon5 #sarjat

Babylon 5 on nykyään ilmaiseksi youtubessa. Siitä katsomaan jos joltain vielä puuttuu yleissivistyksestä.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/

#babylon5 #sarjat

Babylon 5 on nykyään ilmaiseksi youtubessa. Siitä katsomaan jos joltain vielä puuttuu yleissivistyksestä.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/

#babylon5 #sarjat

Babylon 5 on nykyään ilmaiseksi youtubessa. Siitä katsomaan jos joltain vielä puuttuu yleissivistyksestä.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/

#babylon5 #sarjat

I’d like a sonic shower maybe because of my #tbi #startrek #babylon5

https://yoniden.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-grey

Two years later @yoniden solstice album "We Are Grey"

#Music #IndieMusic #BabylonFive #Babylon5 #MastoMusic #Musician #ElectronicMusic #BonkWave #NotBonkWave #SciFiMusic

https://yoniden.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-grey

Two years later @yoniden solstice album "We Are Grey"

#Music #IndieMusic #BabylonFive #Babylon5 #MastoMusic #Musician #ElectronicMusic #BonkWave #NotBonkWave #SciFiMusic

https://yoniden.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-grey

Two years later @yoniden solstice album "We Are Grey"

#Music #IndieMusic #BabylonFive #Babylon5 #MastoMusic #Musician #ElectronicMusic #BonkWave #NotBonkWave #SciFiMusic