An AI could have some memory of the level too, its really not hard to just save the actions up to where it died, keep a state of what the area looked like and then plan ahead for its second try.
You dont need Mario to explore every last block in the game, alls you need is for him to finish the level, and if the AI is smart, it will do it without the use of items (stars, mushrooms, etc). You could just use a simple pathfinding algorithm with detection for enemies and obstacles, and let mario complete the entire level while running and stopping only to wait for certain events (such as those stairs moving up or down).
8^300 states is a lot of data and would never perform well in realtime AI calculations anyways.
"The student goes too far and insults Halo and he's lead away in handcuffs."
Its actually a good analogy to what really happened: the student went too far and insulted the income of a big corporation and he's lead away in handcuffs.
I would much rather have people and policemen interpreting the law and questionning it and fully making sense of it before applying it, than applying it blindly without questionning, THAT is dangerous.
Religion is already a clear example of what happens if you follow the law down to the letter without questionning, billions of meaningless deaths, billions more suffering, and noone happy in the end.
What history teaches us is that only bad things come out of not questioning things and obeying blindly. When we work together and everyone understands the bigger picture, we're capable of the most wonderful things. Its the price to pay for such a brain, the ability to go both for the best and the worst.
Exactly, and it just shows how dumb most people are, especially those enforcing the law. They apply it without a single thought. You could make a law about people having to wear specific colors every day of the week, and you'd have officiers enforcing that the next day without asking themselves if it makes sense or not.
Morals have very little to do with it, the nazi soldiers were obeying orders without questions, just like our soldiers and policemen are. Cases like this guy being arrested for modding consoles just shows how corporations are really running the show in america, and our freedoms can be taken away at any time. They're temporary privileges at most.
Oh and remember, Hitler was elected in a democracy. I wouldnt be so quick as to compare them to us and make them the bad guys and we the good guys, the line between our two societies is very thin.
over here people are full of shit, maybe we can make them useful, there are years and years worth of energy walking down the streets every day, running corporations and marketing.
I wouldnt trust these microbes with our water, i dont want to get zapped if they end up in my tap water!
soon we'll be purchasing dirt and instead of oil, declaring war against third world countries to steal their wastes, and those environmentalists are gonna whine about the smell.
Yeah, which is why a lot of audiophiles prefer vinyls to CDs, why lots more prefer CDs to mp3s, and others mp3s to youtube. Its obvious that the more accessible something is the less quality its gonna have compared to more refined formats which take more time and resources to get.
I do agree the RIAA did some good things, but the masses of bad and evil things they did and now stand for completely overwhelm the rest.
Didnt you know, graphs arent meant to be analyzed intelligently, they are only there so people go Ohhh and Ahhh and agree to whatever bullshit you throw at them.
Funny how most institutions will stop progress so they themselves can live longer until nobody wants them, when they did the same thing to the institutions they replaced.
Its part of progress. The music industry isnt the music, music will always live on no matter what media form it takes. Forcing people through old technology and high prices so you can get your golf weekends will only last so long.
I thought our sysadmin homepage was http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html, this is what im reading all day long every sysadmin day, gives me hope for the next year.
OF course we'd have an idea: the RIAA and MPAA would have sent all the alien TV shows DMCA Takedown notices. . ..
Now i wonder how they would enforce such notices, feels like the ant going against the entire world. I know they're reckless stupid in enforcing their laws, but this would push stupid up to dangerous levels.
Next, merely refering to the thing will get you sued, until you cant even read the thing without promising you will forget what you read. And sooner or later we will just forget about people copyrighting their work alltogether, and just like Darth Sidious said "and then.. we shall have peace".
... The money I gave you for it still works. I don't get to take that back, do I?
Very good point, the RIAA's purpose isnt to distribute music, they do not care about the music nor the customer, they only care about their money and controlling the market to get more money.
They say DRMed music isnt to work forever, I say the RIAA wont work forever either, they're getting desperate for attention and control, and they're losing bits of it everyday. Music existed long before the RIAA, and will live on long after.
I do get that, its just a weak freedom if you ask me, whats the point of saying anything if people are gonna go with the masses anyways. Most of the time a person going in another direction is said to be dumb or defective and is given whatever treatment to make him think like everyone else. How is that freedom? It's all an illusion if you ask me, we believe we're free because we dont look past the idea in itself, but in reality we're like a huge herd of sheep.
By illusion of freedom I mean that we're free to talk about anything, in the manner and tone we wish, but should our ideas go beyond what the masses believe, we get beaten down for saying it. It was always that way, everywhere, with or without free speech. Back in the day even with free speech the first man to say the earth was flat would have had the very same fate.
Freedom of speech just lifts up barriers about what we can say, but the masses still enforces them. At the end of the day, its the same thing, but people "think" they're free.
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myspace is still holding 32 points of collective IQ, and the medias and entertainments the remaining 78.
Oh well, its a start :)
An AI could have some memory of the level too, its really not hard to just save the actions up to where it died, keep a state of what the area looked like and then plan ahead for its second try.
You dont need Mario to explore every last block in the game, alls you need is for him to finish the level, and if the AI is smart, it will do it without the use of items (stars, mushrooms, etc). You could just use a simple pathfinding algorithm with detection for enemies and obstacles, and let mario complete the entire level while running and stopping only to wait for certain events (such as those stairs moving up or down).
8^300 states is a lot of data and would never perform well in realtime AI calculations anyways.
"The student goes too far and insults Halo and he's lead away in handcuffs."
Its actually a good analogy to what really happened: the student went too far and insulted the income of a big corporation and he's lead away in handcuffs.
I would much rather have people and policemen interpreting the law and questionning it and fully making sense of it before applying it, than applying it blindly without questionning, THAT is dangerous.
Religion is already a clear example of what happens if you follow the law down to the letter without questionning, billions of meaningless deaths, billions more suffering, and noone happy in the end.
What history teaches us is that only bad things come out of not questioning things and obeying blindly. When we work together and everyone understands the bigger picture, we're capable of the most wonderful things. Its the price to pay for such a brain, the ability to go both for the best and the worst.
Exactly, and it just shows how dumb most people are, especially those enforcing the law. They apply it without a single thought. You could make a law about people having to wear specific colors every day of the week, and you'd have officiers enforcing that the next day without asking themselves if it makes sense or not.
Morals have very little to do with it, the nazi soldiers were obeying orders without questions, just like our soldiers and policemen are. Cases like this guy being arrested for modding consoles just shows how corporations are really running the show in america, and our freedoms can be taken away at any time. They're temporary privileges at most.
Oh and remember, Hitler was elected in a democracy. I wouldnt be so quick as to compare them to us and make them the bad guys and we the good guys, the line between our two societies is very thin.
over here people are full of shit, maybe we can make them useful, there are years and years worth of energy walking down the streets every day, running corporations and marketing.
I wouldnt trust these microbes with our water, i dont want to get zapped if they end up in my tap water!
soon we'll be purchasing dirt and instead of oil, declaring war against third world countries to steal their wastes, and those environmentalists are gonna whine about the smell.
Yeah, which is why a lot of audiophiles prefer vinyls to CDs, why lots more prefer CDs to mp3s, and others mp3s to youtube. Its obvious that the more accessible something is the less quality its gonna have compared to more refined formats which take more time and resources to get.
I do agree the RIAA did some good things, but the masses of bad and evil things they did and now stand for completely overwhelm the rest.
Didnt you know, graphs arent meant to be analyzed intelligently, they are only there so people go Ohhh and Ahhh and agree to whatever bullshit you throw at them.
The radio only plays music as bait to get the clueless listeners into the ads. Much like tv or magasines do.
Funny how most institutions will stop progress so they themselves can live longer until nobody wants them, when they did the same thing to the institutions they replaced.
Its part of progress. The music industry isnt the music, music will always live on no matter what media form it takes. Forcing people through old technology and high prices so you can get your golf weekends will only last so long.
Dont you know, terrorists never existed in the first place, its just a scam to scare people.
I am still in favor of bombing the RIAA though.
I thought our sysadmin homepage was http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html, this is what im reading all day long every sysadmin day, gives me hope for the next year.
OF course we'd have an idea: the RIAA and MPAA would have sent all the alien TV shows DMCA Takedown notices. . . .
Now i wonder how they would enforce such notices, feels like the ant going against the entire world. I know they're reckless stupid in enforcing their laws, but this would push stupid up to dangerous levels.
So you are saying that our whole freaking planet is a reality show? agh!
So everything thats happening to us now is already scripted? agh!
Or linux like I did on my laptop.
Or reuse your existing vista license on a second machine.
Maybe OSx86.
Its not because you refund your OEM windows license that you're a pirate.
Next, merely refering to the thing will get you sued, until you cant even read the thing without promising you will forget what you read. And sooner or later we will just forget about people copyrighting their work alltogether, and just like Darth Sidious said "and then.. we shall have peace".
... The money I gave you for it still works. I don't get to take that back, do I?
Very good point, the RIAA's purpose isnt to distribute music, they do not care about the music nor the customer, they only care about their money and controlling the market to get more money.
They say DRMed music isnt to work forever, I say the RIAA wont work forever either, they're getting desperate for attention and control, and they're losing bits of it everyday. Music existed long before the RIAA, and will live on long after.
I can already picture this conversation happening:
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exit(0); terminates the program, no need for break for the routine never returns.
What makes you think its not already up and running and they're only missing the AI for agents?
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Think of the hubble telescope, I have a hard time trying to believe the military doesn't already have a few more of them pointing at us.
I do get that, its just a weak freedom if you ask me, whats the point of saying anything if people are gonna go with the masses anyways. Most of the time a person going in another direction is said to be dumb or defective and is given whatever treatment to make him think like everyone else. How is that freedom? It's all an illusion if you ask me, we believe we're free because we dont look past the idea in itself, but in reality we're like a huge herd of sheep.
By illusion of freedom I mean that we're free to talk about anything, in the manner and tone we wish, but should our ideas go beyond what the masses believe, we get beaten down for saying it. It was always that way, everywhere, with or without free speech. Back in the day even with free speech the first man to say the earth was flat would have had the very same fate.
Freedom of speech just lifts up barriers about what we can say, but the masses still enforces them. At the end of the day, its the same thing, but people "think" they're free.