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Rules-Unknown Artificial Intelligence Competition
OOglyDOOde writes: "This link points to a competition being hosted by a company that makes research on artificial intelligence. The task? Build a program that can play a number of games whose rules are totally unknown -- and earn the best score while competing against various opponents. Your program is told the possible choices available, when it should make a move, what did the opponent do; and what was your score for the last turn. There are no entry fees yet there is a cash prize. Submissions can be done in various languages, or in Linux or Windows binaries." This is certainly one of the odder ones I've ever seen, but has interesting prizes (trip to Israel) and rules (fairly broad entry categories).
Yeh. Those evil Israaeli's, picking on poor little arabs whose religion (cult?) just so happens to demand that they utterly destroy Israel and jews in general. I mean, why not instead invite the palestinians over for milk and cookies? The israelis have never made it priority 1 to genocide palestinians, and there is evidence that suggests they'd rather be doing other things. Hmm. Do you think that maybe its the palestinians, that provoke all this?
Think about it. The israelis, when they go after some palestinian, or take action, it's always after some crime has been committed. They go after those that they have a reasonable suspicion of causing it (most of the time, but there are abuses). They don't go out and shoot 10 random palestinians. On the other hand, what else can you call it, when the palestinians blow up a crowded street? They surely can't hope to take out specific targets, so they can't be going after specific enemies. They are more or less randomly killing israelies, regardless of any percieved crime or guilt.
For the israelis, there will never be peace until all palestinians are dead, and yet they hesitate to kill them all. Does anyone doubt they have the military might to do so? And if they don't, doesn't that attest to their general decency?
For the palestinians, there could be peace with the israelis alive. Sure, I bet some palestinians would be harassed, even if they are innocent of crimes (though I'm not sure there are any like that). Yet the palestinians never hesitate to take action that leads to their primary goal, which is the genocide of the israelis and other jewish people. Doesn't that say something to you?
And one other thing. Don't you think it's funny that Arafat gives speeches to arab audiences, where he points out places in the Koran that say its ok to pretend peace with your enemy, as long as it gives you time to build an army to destroy them? That's not even subtle folks.