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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) The System Works
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:52:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:19:58 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
wrote in <vr9skt$ot1r$1@dont-email.me>:

> On 3/17/2025 11:12 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> The System Works: Five SFF Organizations and Institutions Worth
>> Defending
>> 
>> Not all systems and bureaucracies are corrupt.
>> 
>> https://reactormag.com/the-system-works-five-sff-organizations-and-
institutions-worth-defending/
> 
> One for five.  I love "The Star Beast".  It is one of my six star out of
> five star books.
> 
> Lynn

I, too, love "The Star Beast".  I've used it to test ChatGPT.

A while ago, it would hallucinate all kinds of descriptions for
Lummox.  Later, the description got better, but it still missed
my question about "hands".  I just checked, and was surprised
that now it gets the "hands" question right. ("Did Lummox have hands?")
So it's learning.

-- 
-v