And the solution to the water issues can be found in any introductory textbook on the subject: a water price.

> People keep pointing out, and it doesn't seem to sink in, that model trainers only have use for a single copy of a book.

Please pardon the tangent: that's what always bothered me about the Borg in Star Trek. Why do they need to assimilate whole species? I'm sure there are enough volunteers in the federation that would join the Borg collective. Even a handful should be enough.

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lanyard-textile 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Why do they need to assimilate whole species?

So then they're gone :)

When the borg is threatened ("threatened") by a race, they choose to effectively end their way of life one way or the other. That is done by assimilation or by death.

If only a single outstanding member of a species becomes a threat, that's a strong signal for their overall potential; therefore everything needs to go, the sooner the better.

	▲	eru 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought the Borg wanted to get better and better? Leaving the species essentially intact, and absorbing a few members every so often gives you much more material to work with than a one time infusion: they are still evolving and changing.

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ivell 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Knowledge of every member of a species is better than few samples? LLM became better due to its huge dataset instead of just few samples.

	▲	eru 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You hit diminishing returns pretty quickly. And LLM training only bothers with a single copy of each book; they don't even need to destroy the documents. (Eg they didn't destroy the American declaration of independence to train on it.)