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[HSF][RT][Star Wars AU] Timeless Warrior
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Author: u/RidiculousAvgGuy *
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URL: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-timeless-warrior-star-wars-au.22846/
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Score: 34
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Created: 2015-10-14T03:59:39
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u/EliezerYudkowsky [+11] Godric Gryffindor (a day later)
Good writing and I was pleasantly surprised and lol'ing at the Midichlorians explanation - I would not have expected such a lovely excuse to be findable. But I really hope the horribly wrong invocations of Vinge's principle and Graham's Number were meant as humor.
u/GlueBoy [+6] anti-skub (an hour later)
Wow, this is really interesting. I enjoyed everything about the story.
My only issue is that I just wish it wasn't posted on space battles. That place can be so shit to navigate and follow stories.I understand its appeal, but it's not a format that's suited to what is being used for.
Edit: space battles-> forum format site
u/None [+4] (8 hours later)
There's the threadmarking system now, which basically provides an instant index. And if you make an account you can fiddle with the preferences to only get story posts in your notifications.
u/Nevereatcars [+1] The Greatest Is Behind (an hour later)
Sufficient Velocity = Space Battles?
u/GlueBoy [+3] anti-skub (an hour later)
Yeah, my mistake. Regardless, the same criticism applies. I will concede that from what I've seen sufficient velocity writers are better about indexing their stories.
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (an hour later)
You wish is granted!
But yeah, I get what you're saying. I wonder if there's a way to subscribe to an RSS feed of it?
u/RidiculousAvgGuy [+1] (an hour later)
It isn't hard to navigate assuming you're a member.
There's even a function in alerts now so you only get a message if the OP posts something over 500 characters(?).
But, yeah, it is hard for guest readers.
u/CirrusGear [+1] (5 days later)
Seconded. I prefer Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our own, and the like for one simple reason: it's really easy to convert to a format readable on my Kindle with Calibre. I just vastly prefer to read stories on a black-and-white eink screen; it's more like reading print.
u/RidiculousAvgGuy [+5] (47 seconds later)
Hasn't advanced all that much yet, but is quite a good read.
u/Nevereatcars [+4] The Greatest Is Behind (22 hours later)
The program Nove had wanted him to run was right there; lightsaber training.
He loaded up the porn instead.
10/10 bookmarked favorited right there.
u/TimeLoopedPowerGamer [+8] Utopian Smut Peddler (2 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.
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u/Geminii27 [+6] (18 hours later)
It is a factor, although there's a section of readership which gets off on the history as much as the characterization. Being able to balance it is the mark of a great author. And you could even say that Tolkien, for instance, was more about the world-building than telling a story which showed it off.
u/None [+2] (19 hours later)
And yet The Lord of the Rings barely brushes on the mythology of the world - most of that is in the supplemental texts. Instead, it's an epic story about the end of an age and a very English hobbit thrust into adventure and misadventure.
u/None [+2] (32 minutes later)
I'll second this. Good stuff.
u/FTL_wishes [+2] superluminal (59 minutes later)
Excellent stuff! Thanks for this gem!
EDIT: the brain-healing ring sounds suspiciously like an automated version of the super-praxis in Anathem.
u/chaosmosis [+2] and with strange aeons, even death may die (18 hours later)
10/10 prose.
u/rationalidurr [+3] If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! (17 hours later)
Not bad as far as rationality in MC goes. Would be better if the emotion descriptions were cut back a little bit, maybe a quarter of what they are now.
Sensible goal behavior by Jedi, and what I assume is a Sith Lord (no confirmation on that). Culture seems a little outdated for people who can live a long time, why no mind drugs and VR? Great use of future sensing by everyone so far.
The lore bits would be better as a in story clue than what they are now, but I like the rationale behind the scientific lack of progress, as well as scientifically accurate methods(or at least the ones I know are accurate)
Would benefit from more character descriptions, so far only the boss and Twielk man get some semblance of appearance (I could be wrong on this, i can sometimes forget or misread the details)
Bonus point: aliens that come from vastly different eco systems need vastly different arrangements for living.
u/C_Densem [+1] LessWrong (than usual) (3 days later)
It's an interesting story with an interesting premise, and I'll definitely be following it. But I can't help but think that it's so AU that it might be better off as an original story. Change the proper nouns a bit, add a little more detail for the jargon as it's added, and you have an original SF work.
u/Sithoid [+1] (9 days later)
Ouch, that was evil. "Ooh, a Rationalist approach to my favourite fictional universe! Just what I need to make waiting for the new Episode bearable. Especially since all the other good stuff is either finished or on hiatus." (after 5 chapters) ...oh you've got to be kidding me.