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GPT-3 Catching Fish in Morse Code
JC Plessis1-11

Just a wild idea... A "morse" is the french word for walrus, could it be that GPT made the link between the walrus and fishes and when you ask it to translate to morse it is confused with the animal ?

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Gravity Turn
JC Plessis70

To me the analogy still holds in business context.

I feel like during high school I mostly went straight up and got lucky that a spaceship (company) passed by, snatched me and gave me horizontal velocity. And now I'm on a pretty stable orbit. I could get thrown out the airlock but my horizontal velocity would most likely be enough to grab onto another spaceship.

In retrospect there were things I could have done to start getting some horizontal velocity and making my falling down back to earth less likely.

I'm also thinking that our being in orbit makes it har... (read more)

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2Gunnar_Zarncke
I got snatched by a spaceship in low earth orbit when I made a short hop that was not intended to get me into orbit. Part of that spaceship later crashed but I got out and into another one passing by via a line from a crewmate. I later switched to higher orbit spaceships on my own based on lots of spare fuel I had. I think I could have made better use of my fuel but for me, the sky looked pretty chaotic. I think I give my kids better advice than I had (which is basically none). A lot of that advice is to practice hops early to not worry too much about the perfect start as the rocket technology and the spaceships seem to change fast. Think about it: My current job didn't even exist when I was their age. I adapt a lot of Paul Graham's advice too. 
The Future: Where are the Colors and the Sports?
JC Plessis30

About "you don’t really hear a lot about sports in the future", I was wondering if professional sport would still be viewed as a job and in a future world where nobody "works", professional sport might not be as aspirational as it is today. Would that be an other reason why sport is underrepresented ?

What are counter examples of sports in Sci-Fi ? I can think of some robots fighting "sports" (Reel Steel, Gunmm, first episode of Love, Death and Robots), some racing (Speeders race in Star Wars), the hunger games as a kind of revisited roman ludi.  I have a faint memory of some kind of low gravity handball but I can't recall the source.

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2Dweomite
Final Fantasy X has a sci-fi sport called "blitz ball" that is played in a spherical swimming pool.  (The athletes are inexplicably immune to suffocation.)  Structurally resembles sports like soccer or hockey, with two teams of players competing for control of a ball, and goals defended by goalies. The Ian Banks novel The Player of Games includes depictions of board games, VR fighting games, and an absurdly-complicated, vaguely-described game that an alien empire uses to determine everyone's rank in society.  Some or all of those might count as "sports" depending on how you define the term, though none of them seem like central examples.