Take a popular movie license(Enter Star Wars, or Spiderman)
+ Hire one or two relatively big name actors, preferable with a hot female lead for consumer fantasy purposes.
+ Write a dragging, scenery focused screenplay with emphasis on reuse and recycle(thus allowing the younger, and older consumers to follow along easily).
= BLOCKBUSTER
Seriously people halfway through AOTC I asked: "Is this Star Wars, or the Sound of Music".
Darth Idiot-"I just slaughtered a whole village, including women and children"
I have played many MUDS including some which I paid for(yes real money). I played Avalon during the good years(when Gods had power) and generally there are very few "*great*" MUDS. The pay MUDS when I played them were rather expensive considering, but when you have a great text game you'll find it's a lot like a great novel. No matter how great computer graphics get nothing will ever rival the human imagination. What I imagine a Uruk-hai looks like would be completely different to anyone's including Peter Jackson's. Right now the newest pay mud that people seem to like(with no bias since I don't play it) is Achaea which I believe now has been renamed to something else.(Generally the paymuds started with "A" since the mudlist is alphabetical)
MUD's are a completely different style of gaming then that to which the usual graphical yahoo is used to. Interacting in a MUD is extremely fast and unlike games that require mouse/keyboard interfaces you are communicating all the time through speech, emotes, and general actions. I would go on with more information about MUDS but instead I will leave everyone with this. I thought all the people who played text-based game were crazy as well, but after a steep learning curve I found Mudding very rewarding.
Just to re-iterate my point again, Mudding has a very steep learning curve. Just because you don't have the patience to learn something doesn't mean it isn't good. Take Mahjong for instance...if you aren't of chinese decent Mahjong can be frustrating as you learn some of the chinese characters, but in the end it's a rewarding, fun game. Besides tiles are cooler then cards.
This obsession with AI has got to stop. I'm going to go on a limb here and assume the following about AI.
1. Anything that is truly intelligent would NOT enjoy performing human's menial tasks.
2. Anything that seems like a "can I?", before a "should I?" is probably not a good thing.
3. AI judging us according to the law, oh boy I can't wait for that to happen. What happens when there is a bug or malfunction and no one catches it...oops.
Not to forget the "Turing test" which is rather absurd as proof of AI.
Judges get to where they are through being thoroughly qualified for the position, such as having a law degree and serving as a lawyer for a number of years. Being lawyers, they are quite adept at understanding the facts of a situation, a skill you sorely lack.
Judges tend to be the people who step on the least amount of toes and frankly most of them are not very adept at all(especially at the lower levels). Generally someone rewards his friend by appointing them a judge and trust me these judges won't ever forget who appointed them. It's hard to be a judge as it requires the right friends, but once you are a judge, you're pretty much a judge for life. You would be amazed at the sheer incompetence of some of the judges in the American and Canadian judicial systems as they were appointed many years back and completely seemed to have jumped off the common sense train.
Once again we all reply to AI arguments/posts/information with assumptions on what is right or wrong. We all assume what "humanity" is yet never state it. We start saying what is right/wrong with Hal and yet we can't even convince each other to agree on what is right/wrong with ourselves. We keep confusing "intelligence" with "morality" and then we forget emotions, or put too much emphasis on emotions and so on and on we spiral into this hilariously ironic situation of one being stating what is right/wrong with another being when we don't even know ourselves. We are the artificial intelligence because even though we are intelligent we use it artificially, pretending really that we aren't intelligent at all(war, famine, society). Maybe we can develop artificial reponsibility and become responsible for ourselves and then go from there into actual intelligence.
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and then you realize you're a computer guy doomed to forever be sexually excited by his slashdot karma.
So we know that quantum teleportation works through an assumption of unknowns which is proven through the end of the means. Doesn't this worry anyone? Even Einstein called it "spooky". So we're going to keep fiddling with quantum science until we tear a hole in our universe, as we bend around the speed of light?
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Take a popular movie license(Enter Star Wars, or Spiderman)
+ Hire one or two relatively big name actors, preferable with a hot female lead for consumer fantasy purposes.
+ Write a dragging, scenery focused screenplay with emphasis on reuse and recycle(thus allowing the younger, and older consumers to follow along easily).
= BLOCKBUSTER
Seriously people halfway through AOTC I asked: "Is this Star Wars, or the Sound of Music".
Darth Idiot-"I just slaughtered a whole village, including women and children"
Senator Portman-"Oh Honey, how cute, I love you".
I have played many MUDS including some which I paid for(yes real money). I played Avalon during the good years(when Gods had power) and generally there are very few "*great*" MUDS. The pay MUDS when I played them were rather expensive considering, but when you have a great text game you'll find it's a lot like a great novel. No matter how great computer graphics get nothing will ever rival the human imagination. What I imagine a Uruk-hai looks like would be completely different to anyone's including Peter Jackson's. Right now the newest pay mud that people seem to like(with no bias since I don't play it) is Achaea which I believe now has been renamed to something else.(Generally the paymuds started with "A" since the mudlist is alphabetical)
MUD's are a completely different style of gaming then that to which the usual graphical yahoo is used to. Interacting in a MUD is extremely fast and unlike games that require mouse/keyboard interfaces you are communicating all the time through speech, emotes, and general actions. I would go on with more information about MUDS but instead I will leave everyone with this. I thought all the people who played text-based game were crazy as well, but after a steep learning curve I found Mudding very rewarding.
Just to re-iterate my point again, Mudding has a very steep learning curve. Just because you don't have the patience to learn something doesn't mean it isn't good. Take Mahjong for instance...if you aren't of chinese decent Mahjong can be frustrating as you learn some of the chinese characters, but in the end it's a rewarding, fun game. Besides tiles are cooler then cards.
This obsession with AI has got to stop. I'm going to go on a limb here and assume the following about AI.
1. Anything that is truly intelligent would NOT enjoy performing human's menial tasks.
2. Anything that seems like a "can I?", before a "should I?" is probably not a good thing.
3. AI judging us according to the law, oh boy I can't wait for that to happen. What happens when there is a bug or malfunction and no one catches it...oops.
Not to forget the "Turing test" which is rather absurd as proof of AI.
to all Anti-Virus companies for creat...er attempting to stop another virus. What a coincidence every month or so a new personal computer virus...
Judges get to where they are through being thoroughly qualified for the position, such as having a law degree and serving as a lawyer for a number of years. Being lawyers, they are quite adept at understanding the facts of a situation, a skill you sorely lack.
Judges tend to be the people who step on the least amount of toes and frankly most of them are not very adept at all(especially at the lower levels). Generally someone rewards his friend by appointing them a judge and trust me these judges won't ever forget who appointed them. It's hard to be a judge as it requires the right friends, but once you are a judge, you're pretty much a judge for life. You would be amazed at the sheer incompetence of some of the judges in the American and Canadian judicial systems as they were appointed many years back and completely seemed to have jumped off the common sense train.
Once again we all reply to AI arguments/posts/information with assumptions on what is right or wrong. We all assume what "humanity" is yet never state it. We start saying what is right/wrong with Hal and yet we can't even convince each other to agree on what is right/wrong with ourselves. We keep confusing "intelligence" with "morality" and then we forget emotions, or put too much emphasis on emotions and so on and on we spiral into this hilariously ironic situation of one being stating what is right/wrong with another being when we don't even know ourselves. We are the artificial intelligence because even though we are intelligent we use it artificially, pretending really that we aren't intelligent at all(war, famine, society). Maybe we can develop artificial reponsibility and become responsible for ourselves and then go from there into actual intelligence.
and then you realize you're a computer guy doomed to forever be sexually excited by his slashdot karma.
What sensible thing? Move back to the U.S. and establish the C.I.A. and F.B.I. to watch from satelites every move you make?
I wouldn't really call Earth properly colonized. Perhaps we should fix Earth first and then worry about other planets?
So we know that quantum teleportation works through an assumption of unknowns which is proven through the end of the means. Doesn't this worry anyone? Even Einstein called it "spooky". So we're going to keep fiddling with quantum science until we tear a hole in our universe, as we bend around the speed of light?