Violence

Question: How did Samuel come to like violent games??

or How Eugene learnt to worry and hate the Bomb?

It's kind of funny, because I've been running the other way recently. I never play shooters or any games anymore unless it's a good cause (eg. with friends/colleagues). For some reason, I'm come to abhor anything with any kind of violence in it, which includes wargames, news and TV. It's not hate, but rather a motivator towards the opposite direction.

And then, I realized it wasn't really violence I came to dislike, it was just its initiation without a reasonable cause or decisive victory. Or the scenarios where violence gets blown out of proportion, or when it would never work in reality.

I guess I would describe the feeling as equal to an enemy intending to win by wasting my time. It's like a kind of stalling. Or insulting my intelligence. Like when you know it's impossible in the near future and you probably don't ever want it to happen, even if it becomes possible.

Just a thought. Maybe it's a change of values and perspective of what I consider to be cool.

Yeah, it would be interesting to list what we consider cool now, and in what respect.

A post for Another Day...

Can AI be sentient without understanding the human first?

Why not?

What's stopping anyone from bumping into an accurate, implementable description of sentience? Who's to say it can't evolve out of what we have currently?

At the current rate of progress, it is truly a race between the sciences and computer science - the description and the implementation.