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> "nornagon" <nornagon@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> The Triad InSaNiTised:
>>
>>> "nornagon" <nornagon@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> The Triad InSaNiTised:
>>>>
>>>>> "Don" <admin@amberz.nospam.net> wrote in message
>>>>> news:cug893$lu6$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
>>>>>> "nornagon" <nornagon@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>>>>> I've decided that Creatures is eating my brain. I look at all the
>>>>>>> dev stuff
>>>>>>> I do, and realise that pretty much all of it is Creatures-related. I
>>>>>>> reckon
>>>>>>> Creatures is at fault for making me want to do AI/AL stuff at uni.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyone else noticed similar things, or am I alone?
>>>>>
>>>>> Note: There are much worse things that can happen to one's brain.
>>>>> Compared to the majority who just laze around in university...
>>>>>
>>>>> In short, if that's having your brain eaten, then BRAIN EATENEDERS
>>>>> PRIDE! *waves flag; hands to random productive (admirable) person*
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lol, very true. I've enjoyed every moment of my Creatures days...
>>>> except when somebody decided to hotlink my program without crediting
>>>> me, and they rued the day, I'm sure.
>>>
>>> *smiles* Did you move the program to somewhere else on your site, and
>>> put
>>> a
>>> somewhat... different program in its original (hotlinked) location?
>>>
>>
>> Hehe. No, I took a much more direct approach. I flamed the heck out of
>> him.
>> <eg>
>
> Hah. Still, it doesn't have the same... insidiousness!
>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wonder how many CC members chose their degree under the influence
>>>>>> of Creatures.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think a lot of us are in roughly the same fields now: programming,
>>>>>> web design or media. So, do you think Creatures influenced us into
>>>>>> these fields or did our interests bring us to Creatures?
😉
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd guess the latter, but with a feedback loop involved somewhere.
>>>>> Any
>>>>> influences related to web design or media seem... unlikely.
>>>>> Programming?
>>>>> Much more likely. Also, I/we suspect that the sorts of people who
>>>>> enjoy
>>>>> Creatures are the same sorts of people who go into programming; other
>>>>> sorts, such as accountants, likely would find it dull or something
>>>>> similar.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't know, I go even further than that, I think. I want to do
>>>> neuropsychology and biochemistry and stuff... Oh, and of course
>>>> programming, and maybe CG art...
😀
>>>
>>> *grins* ...neurology... definitely interested in programming here, but
>>> also in (nearly) all forms of Artificial Life, and particularly in
>>> self-altering programs.
>>
>> Yupyup, neurology's really interesting. And all forms of AL.
>
> *nods*
>
>> (Did you know
>> that Conway's Game of Life is Turing complete? Yep, someone built a
>> Turing machine in Life.)
>
> Ooo. *blinks*
>
> ...can it simulate another Turing machine running Half-Life?
*groans and calls 1800-BADJOKE*
But yes, Turing machines can, by definition, do anything.
>
>>>
>>> ...if one could create a Seed AI which could recursively make itself
>>> more
>>> intelligent... or maybe hook up genetic algorithms to a neural net,
>>> then at some point create a feedback loop and allow the neural net to
>>> define the algorithms' goals...
>>>
>>> *dreams*
>>>
>>
>> Hehe, yeah, I've thought about that. If you give a very simple
>> (comparatively) AI a hell of a lot of time and some genetic algorithms...
>> voíla, human-like intelligence!
>
> ...we can hope... *hopes*
>
> The thing is--if it's in theory simple, then why has no one done it yet?
> More to the point, how does one do it?
>
Good question. Maybe they're all stupid.
😛
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- nornagon
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