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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Not holmes, just his greatest enemy, who was vibe coded into existence by someone who should have known better!

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think one of the most inconsistent things about Trek is how the Federation is all about rules and safety most of the time, yet they still employ holodecks despite the many many terrible and life-threatening things they're constantly doing.

Moriarty was basically made sentient by a somewhat shit prompt entered into the 24th century AI. Imagine if half the prompts people enter nowadays could just become sentient.

Also they just physically don't make sense. If the holodeck is x size and there's more than one person between them, they shouldn't be able to be further away from each other than the max size of the room.

Also billion other things but just wanted to comment a little

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

I think there are a few episodes of Voyager that explore this. They run the holodeck continuously at one point as a virtual town with people constantly going in and out and several problems pop up. I think someone even mentions how it's having issues dealing with so many people being in so many places all at once.

There's also the episode of TNG where they teleport people to holo caves to move them to a new planet without them knowing about it, and it has issues there as well.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago*

Oh I love the holodeck shenanigans.

But like in reality, if any of those things had have happened to an actual military with some of their recreational tech, they'd lose it kinda quick, just to be sure. (And yes yes federation or Star Fleet isn't a military but)

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