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[WIP] My attempt to put a rational character in the Star Wars universe
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Author: u/None *
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URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10740793/1/A-Voice-Across-the-Void-Ch-01
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Score: 25
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Created: 2015-03-14T05:30:34
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u/None [+8] (12 hours later)
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u/None [+3] (16 hours later)
Thank you! I have not thought this through fully, but presumably the lady in the holocron knows many teachings off-limits to the Jedi, and she is quite resourceful in achieving her goals.
"Pretty tough considering the placid nature of the Order during this period."
I think you've guessed the theme of the next few chapters...
u/Endovior [+3] (23 hours later)
I have not thought this through fully
It's an interesting story, but we kind of need to see at least the first conversation or so before you can move on. If this was a story about someone else, and we the audience were to discover that they were influenced by a Sith Holocron later on, that would be a good way to write it. But he's the main character, and the influence these teachings have on his philosophy and methodology are kind of important, so we need to see more of that journey than you've shown.
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+3] Utopian Smut Peddler (a day later)
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
u/eaglejarl [+1] (a day later)
I am pretty curious how a Sith's teachings allow him to mend years of neglect in light saber training but it doesn't necessarily cause disbelief.
It's not entirely improbable. I studied dueling[1] for a number of years, and I recall that small things could make a huge difference in performance -- getting a grasp on distance and learning to beat foible-to-forte (as opposed to middle-to-middle) being two good examples of things that can be learned in a few hours and make a large difference to your combat ability.
[1] Fencing is a sport based around making a light come on by touching someone with the tip of your weapon. Dueling is the art of killing someone with a Western-style sword.
u/Nevereatcars [+5] The Greatest Is Behind (an hour later)
I read it, it was good. What time period is it set in? Will we see any of the big names of the series? I didn't recognize anybody's names, so I'm going to assume they're all OCs. Followed, I'll be watching. Write more.
u/None [+3] (16 hours later)
Thank you very much! I thought of the events as taking place roughly simultaneously with the KOTOR games, give or take a couple of hundred years. I haven't decided whether any of the characters from the games will appear...any plot suggestions would be most welcome :)
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+5] Utopian Smut Peddler (a day later)
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
u/FTL_wishes [+5] superluminal (2 hours later)
An excellent piece of work. There's been some discussion here of a rational star-wars, but no-one has actually put pen to paper until now. Have all my upvotes.
u/AugSphere [+2] Dark Lord of Corruption (3 hours later)
Well done.
u/JackStargazer [+2] Primordial Apologist (10 hours later)
Hmm, seems to be set in the Old Republic.
Interesting that he seems to be taking a Grey Jedi route. I would have liked to see more about what he learned from the Sith Holocron that got him so far ahead in lightsaber combat.
Of course, it could be as simple as "The masters don't deign to teach you anything important until you've been accepted" and "The Sith in the Holocron did."
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+1] Utopian Smut Peddler (14 hours later)
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
u/JackStargazer [+1] Primordial Apologist (14 hours later)
Or a single year before the events of Episode Two, on a different planet that wasn't in Yoda/the council's area of influence.
I will note that that is still 'The Old Republic', which I meant as 'pre-Galactic Empire' and not 'Revan's time, ca. 3970 BBY'.
What you say makes eminent logical sense, and there are clearly other temples (we see the one on Dantooine in KOTOR for example) but the Coruscant one is the most central. There was a great library on Ossus, but it was destroyed in 3996 BBY by Exar Kun.
Even a couple of jedi per planet (making those selected for training one in several billion) would fill a single building of the scale of the central temple shown in the movies many times over.
This is especially true since we know some races have much higher percentages of population that are force sensitive - there simply must be more temples and training areas.
There is a limit to what can be shown on screen however.
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+2] Utopian Smut Peddler (a day later)
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
u/JackStargazer [+2] Primordial Apologist (a day later)
Understood. Not exactly the correct terminology, I think. But that makes sense. This says the Old Republic period ended in 1000 BBY[1] , though I'm not sure about the citation.
I suppose. Notable however is that these seem to be historical period names akin to 'Middle Ages', or 'Classical Era' and not 'the set of all years in which the Galaxy was ruled by the Republic which existed before Palpatine's empire.'
The fact that the so called 'Rise of the Empire' period, which for some reason extends a thousand years before Palpatine's birth includes within it The so called Golden Age of the Old Republic tells me that whoever is writing these histories is a bit flaky.
Then again, ask 5 modern historians what years constitute the 'High Middle Ages' and you'll get 7 answers, so it's not surprising.
The rant is spot on. It's similar to the problem with Warhammer 40k's Imperium in a way - the Imperial Guard is noted as having trillions of members, which makes sense for its size, but even at their height, most Space Marine chapters have what, 1000 members? For multiple solar systems?
Even if each member was a man sized main battle tank that could fight for weeks, that's not enough to effectively conquer a single planet in any sensible length of time.
I suppose part of the problem with the Jedi is that millions of Jedi would not be defeatable. Especially with FTL and precognitive psychic sensing and communication. Order 66 doesn't work on that scale, even if you had the trooper numbers to pull it off - at those numbers there is no way to avoid a much larger percentage of jedi slipping through the cracks.
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+3] Utopian Smut Peddler (2 days later)
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+1] Utopian Smut Peddler (2 days later)
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
u/None [+1] (16 hours later)
You guessed right! I'm curious, how did you know what I was thinking?
u/Transfuturist [+1] Carthago delenda est. (23 hours later)
So that would mean that padawans are selected for either combat proficiency or adherence to tradition.
u/Transfuturist [+2] Carthago delenda est. (23 hours later)
"I will frank with you, my padawan
be*
u/linkhyrule5 [+1] (4 hours later)
Hm, interesting.
Not much to say about the first bit, but subscribed.
u/Kodix [+1] (8 hours later)
Pretty cool!
Not much to comment on so far, but it really is well written and enjoyable. I would definitely like to see more.
u/lfghikl [+1] (a day later)
"There are a number of agencies within the Republic that have historically been keen to employ our former padawans. Do take a look at the references we have put together for you. "
I know very little of Star Wars canon beyond the films, but I thought all padawans who weren't apprenticed to a Jedi were asked to join the Jedi Service Corps?
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+1] Utopian Smut Peddler (a day later)
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
u/lfghikl [+2] (a day later)
There is no official canon beyond the films and later cartoons anymore.
Noted. Replace what I said with "I know very little about the Star Wars books, but ..." then.
Also, that line still fits as they aren't really in the jedi order.
You sure? This wiki-article seems to say the opposite:
The Jedi Service Corps was an organization formed by the Council of Reassignment during the Old Republic era as an alternative to serving in the more traditional capacity of the Jedi Knights. Because it was run by the Jedi Order, the members of the Service Corps were all considered Jedi, though many of its members had failed to pass their Initiate Trials and therefore could not proceed in training at the Jedi academy.
I have no idea how correct it is, though.
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+1] Utopian Smut Peddler (a day later)
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.