If you think that evolution is an invisible sky giant selectively culling boring lifeforms and rescuing ones that interest him, then sure, that's exactly what this is.
Honest to Jebus, I was writing Netrek bots in 1994 that used a genetic algorithm to self-guide their development, and you don't get more "random" than human opponents. When all those Quake bots hit the scene a couple of years later, it was already old hat as far as I was concerned, and now some Korean MMOs are almost entirely populated by robots. Are people really still getting grants for this?
It's a peculiar situation. The currency is backed by fixed price vending of basic items, but items that can't be bought from vendors are subject to inflationary pressures.
If you're interested in this subject, you'll be fascinated by Diablo II. Money became essentially worthless, and the Stone of Jordan economy picked up the slack.
Then why continue farming at all? I can't see under what circumstances the price is likely to rise again in future. Their gold stash is likely to be depreciating rather than appreciating.
Why would a commercial farmer would be hanging on to gold rather than selling it for $$$? If it's not worth selling at its current price, why keep farming at all, as it's unlikely to rise in future.
Strictly speaking they aren't "learning" anything, and for the benefit of anyone who is about to start spouting off about "evolving", just don't. There's no learning or selection going on here as the robots aren't capable of sustaining themselves or reproducing. All that's going on here is that some defective algorithms that have forgotten how to communicate properly are being artificially preserved by some human researchers who want more grant money.
If you read more into it than that, then I have a bridge that you may be interested in purchasing.
Damn skippy. When I worked as a SCADA dev, we had one (1) machine connected to the internet, in a locked room. If you wanted to move something from there to a machine on the LAN, you did it by burning CDs, and the culture (rather than just the 'procedures') was genuinely against installing anything that wasn't absolutely necessary. Nobody outside of IT had admin access to their desktops.
That was our dev house procedures though. As you say, it all falls apart on the production systems. Once customers started using commodity Windows boxes, it was all over. We found one production box where the night watchman had hacksawed off the padlock on the back, opened it up and installed a sound card so that he could play games on it, presumably by plugging an optical drive in for the duration. It was pwoned by his warez and needed a brain wipe. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
If you believe that a hippy layabout beardy waster was the literal son of the giant invisible beardy creator of the universe, then you are already so far ensnared in a psycho cult that the only "discussion" that we can have is me laughing at your mental illness. It's nothing personal, I find all mentalists equally hilarious.
Um, isn't the Vatican in Europe? There might be a few people there who believe.
You mean the cleaners and janitors? Most likely, but is there anyone influential there who believes that a big beardy man buried dinosaur skeletons to fuck with our minds?
I'm a Christian blah blah zombie saviour blah cognitive dissonance blah blah invisible sky giant blah BOOGY MAN blah blah nothing at all to do with the subject under discussion blah
Thank you for your insightful contribution, which I rather suspect stands ready to be cut and pasted into any discussion featuring the words "science", "religion" or "bat shit insane cultists who view everything in relation to their paranoid schizophrenia about a huge beardy man who will torture them for ever unless they flatter him".
There, fixed that for you. Actually, by the time Quake came out, XPilot and Netrek had been hammered by bot and borg clients for years. Thus my username.
Ahem. MOO, MUSH and MUSE 'MUDS' allow players to craft the world using an amazingly rich object oriented scripting language. I learned the fundamentals of OO design on the old RP oriented Star Trek MUSE, and not a level cap or quest in sight.
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Cartels. Next question.
If you think that evolution is an invisible sky giant selectively culling boring lifeforms and rescuing ones that interest him, then sure, that's exactly what this is.
Honest to Jebus, I was writing Netrek bots in 1994 that used a genetic algorithm to self-guide their development, and you don't get more "random" than human opponents. When all those Quake bots hit the scene a couple of years later, it was already old hat as far as I was concerned, and now some Korean MMOs are almost entirely populated by robots. Are people really still getting grants for this?
It's a peculiar situation. The currency is backed by fixed price vending of basic items, but items that can't be bought from vendors are subject to inflationary pressures.
If you're interested in this subject, you'll be fascinated by Diablo II. Money became essentially worthless, and the Stone of Jordan economy picked up the slack.
Then why continue farming at all? I can't see under what circumstances the price is likely to rise again in future. Their gold stash is likely to be depreciating rather than appreciating.
Why are providing an answer that you yourself say no longer works? The questionis: how are people hitting the gold cap now, not Back In The Day?
Why would a commercial farmer would be hanging on to gold rather than selling it for $$$? If it's not worth selling at its current price, why keep farming at all, as it's unlikely to rise in future.
Slashdot obliges by feeding the troll, as always. Yawn.
Strictly speaking they aren't "learning" anything, and for the benefit of anyone who is about to start spouting off about "evolving", just don't. There's no learning or selection going on here as the robots aren't capable of sustaining themselves or reproducing. All that's going on here is that some defective algorithms that have forgotten how to communicate properly are being artificially preserved by some human researchers who want more grant money.
If you read more into it than that, then I have a bridge that you may be interested in purchasing.
Damn skippy. When I worked as a SCADA dev, we had one (1) machine connected to the internet, in a locked room. If you wanted to move something from there to a machine on the LAN, you did it by burning CDs, and the culture (rather than just the 'procedures') was genuinely against installing anything that wasn't absolutely necessary. Nobody outside of IT had admin access to their desktops.
That was our dev house procedures though. As you say, it all falls apart on the production systems. Once customers started using commodity Windows boxes, it was all over. We found one production box where the night watchman had hacksawed off the padlock on the back, opened it up and installed a sound card so that he could play games on it, presumably by plugging an optical drive in for the duration. It was pwoned by his warez and needed a brain wipe. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Are you made of the same atoms from one instant to another?
How would you test it?
If you believe that a hippy layabout beardy waster was the literal son of the giant invisible beardy creator of the universe, then you are already so far ensnared in a psycho cult that the only "discussion" that we can have is me laughing at your mental illness. It's nothing personal, I find all mentalists equally hilarious.
Right, and is there anyone in the Vatican who actually believes that?
You mean the cleaners and janitors? Most likely, but is there anyone influential there who believes that a big beardy man buried dinosaur skeletons to fuck with our minds?
FYI, here's what I just read:
Thank you for your insightful contribution, which I rather suspect stands ready to be cut and pasted into any discussion featuring the words "science", "religion" or "bat shit insane cultists who view everything in relation to their paranoid schizophrenia about a huge beardy man who will torture them for ever unless they flatter him".
Hitler gassed a lot of Jews personally, did he?
Oops, I lose.
Jesus, yes, after Richard III it's just been armchair quarterbacks in charge of the charges.
As long as I can give really satisfying eWedgies to the nerds who 'play' this, I'll be happy.
Good luck with that. Should I ever see any of your advertising, then I'll be sure to give it a try. ;)
Hey, who put that elephant in the room? ;)
Then why aren't you already paying $0 per month to play on a RP MOO/MUSH/MUSE?
Can you define "many more people"? I mean, in a business plan.
Something that dark doubtless expends a lot of energy on cutting itself.
He can't email them, because clearly that's zomg h4xx0rz1ng their email server.
There, fixed that for you. Actually, by the time Quake came out, XPilot and Netrek had been hammered by bot and borg clients for years. Thus my username.
Ahem. MOO, MUSH and MUSE 'MUDS' allow players to craft the world using an amazingly rich object oriented scripting language. I learned the fundamentals of OO design on the old RP oriented Star Trek MUSE, and not a level cap or quest in sight.