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  • The point of a team is that no one person is a point of failure.

    Exactly. Tuvix is a potential single point of failure. You’re doubling your risk. Eggs and baskets.

    Factoring in a hypothetical future scenario is spurious.

    Why? It goes hand in hand with your point about points of failure. It’s something that would have had to be considered. Voyager wasn’t snug and safe in the alpha quadrant where they could just go to a starbase and get more crew members if they lost any.

    And not one person has even tried to reconcile the speech to the Vidiians.

    It’s right there in the speech I will do whatever is necessary to protect my people

    At the end of the day the murder of Tuvix pales into insignificance compared to her out and out genocide of the Borg. All to protect her people and get them home.


    I don’t personally think the murder of Tuvix was justifiable, but it’s definitely not an open and shut case. Janeway had to consider 150 people and their chances of surviving and getting home in one piece she also had to consider Tuvok and Neelix.


  • The links to Wikipedia are actual citations to real sources

    I read an interesting article a few years ago about the Wikipedia source problem. It did a dive into how sources that seem legitimate on Wikipedia can and up citing sources that are less so. They were able to trace back the citations to Wikipedia itself. So no, they’re not always real sources.

    LLMs basically just generate something that looks like the link to a credible source which might support what it’s said. It doesn’t care if its “source” actually supports what it says.

    Which is why you read the page it has linked for you as a source. Unless you’re trying to say it full on generates a page for you.