Recent content by Zarpaulek

Yet you seem to have forgotten the "Dot Com" bubble collapse and how just a few years ago the same people hawking LLMs were claiming that NFTs or "the Metaverse" were going to be the next big thing.

Sorry, I got you mixed up with one of the LLM-advocates on this thread. You and Endie have the same initial.

I might have gotten them and Endie mixed up.

You’re calling us greedy? Do you realize how many freelance illustrators survive off their drawing income? It’s got the lowest upfront cost of almost any freelance job and it’s not dependent on passive royalties the way writing or music is, so it’s frequently the only option for people who...

All of the "generative AI" companies passing Large Language Models off as "artificial intelligence" are hemorrhaging money, even OpenAI. I'd bet you a kilocred that none of them will be around by the end of the decade. Maybe some new model that is actually intelligent and doesn't just...

The 3D printer refuses to print anything once it runs out of carbon.

The first issue felt like a "session zero," if you get me. The cast mustered out, met up, and got their ship. In this one it feels like the plot is really getting going.

In the Cepheus setting I'm working on fabricators can use specialty feedstocks to produce items at half cost, or bulk raw materials (in prices purchased by the ton) at a quarter cost. So you're paying more if you don't have cargo space. I also made spaceship manufacturing centers able to...

Only if you're hauling freight and passengers through an agency instead of speculative trading. If you're buying and selling you actually are an entrepreneur and not just an independent contractor for tax purposes.

Did you mean Large Language Models (LLMs)? Because I don't think Limited Liability Corporations will be taking over the world anytime soon.

A megacorp with operations spanning multiple sectors or even domains, sure. But I was thinking more of a single free trader with shareholders instead of a multi-megacred mortgage.

And in the edition where aging rolls start at 50 getting a DNAM safely is just a END 4+ or 6+ check. I'd expect a telomere extension to be even easier on the body than chromosome-level GRS.

Are there any rules for Travellers owning and running companies or corporations given how important megacorps seem to be in the interstellar economy? After re-listening to Nathan Lowell's Trader's Tales I thought that forming and selling shares in a company might be a viable alternative to...

Charted Space is influenced by mid-20th century space opera like Trek and Wars, where privately owned FTL starships with artificial gravity are commonplace but human biology is mostly unchanged save for rare exceptions. 2300 AD has more cyberpunk/"hard" sci-fi influences. There's no gravity...

Also a whole plot reference to H. Beam Piper's Space Viking.