@nickrayson@Spellweaver5 @realpeakchu @maniadrone The lambton wyrm and the tarrasque are both explicitely dragons in the source material. So is Fafnir, if you want to add another oen.
@nickrayson@Spellweaver5 @realpeakchu @maniadrone Nope. A lot of them don't fly. European dragons in mythology very commonly don't have wings and they dig a lot more than they fly.
They also aren't necessarily lizards or serpentine. The tarrasque is a giant turtle, and a lot of medieval dragons are very doglike.
@karpathy We've had chatbots who beat the Turing test for over 20 years, though.
Essential Turing Test is that you have to compare the bot to a human. And you could program a chatbot to answer "I don't want to". And a human can be wrong too.
@Willyintheworld@CraigBeam1 That part seems *very* real. Now, it wasn't wartime, so it doesn't remotely compare, but I was a conscientous objector to my country's draft and did civil service. I would have *liked* to do something meaningful, but we did almost entirely busywork that helped no one.
@TiceRichard The article misspells CO2 several times. How many of those academics are actually climate researchers, and how many of them actually know they are on this list? Because given similar lists I've seen before, many of them are probably misquoted and later issued statements.
Can you help us identify this?
This set of what appear to be stamps was donated to us recently.
We know that some of the Chinese characters on the left represent names.
The lighter colored rectangular ones have numbers plus some unusual characters.
What might their purpose be?
@alexriesart Alistair Reynolds? If you don't want to jump into one of his big books, he writes good short stories, too. He has really weird aliens, he has interstellar wars, he has the biggest, dumbest objects.
For fans of Love, Death & Robots, he wrote Zima Blue and Beyond the Aquila Rift.