@gandalf3 could you help me with my Bird ai? i want them to fly erratically.

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ i really need to know if you'll be able too do music. yes/no?

What is the hard deadline

I never got a straight answer :P

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ 27th at 00.00 utc

it doesn't need to be long

ok

mood?

any

make it kinda uppity tho

ohh

bbl

what do I do if I just gave the same answer as someone else

@Vader you shoot yourself and reincarnate as them

some work on the colour bird:

wow. colorful.

@ARadish wow nice

@ARadish define "erratically"

Totally at random?

Or with some purpose?

@gandalf3 pretty random, but with the goal of staying at relatively the same elevavtion over a period of time

so deviation is encouraged, but it should stay in the same general area

@X-27 i might have gone a bit overboard. :D

i'm going to bed... i'll work some more tomorrow

@BookWyrm17 Hey, that's awesome!

.

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ ping me when you come online. I have great news to tell you!

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ messaged you through steam. (I couldn't wait, too exciting!)

@X-27 100%? Wow!

yah!

my crazy brain just thought of an awesome idea! The tank can transform into a jet!

oh boy

Oh yes!!!

this will be aaawwweeessome!!

what is the game about? A Tank Hu? The theme is flight - tanks don't fly. Says who?

lol

lol

Seems like that must have been asked before, but I couldn't find anything

@x-27 @TARDISMaker @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ @ARadish Wow, Gold Keepas are starting to show up more regularly. I just caught another one.

Mybe they've finally figured out the spawning routines properly

just bake the dynamics or something, and then wait for it to fall apart :/

actually nope

I fixed it

O_O

wait

I fixed it

I DID IT

WHAAAT

XD

I'M EVEN MORE CONFUSED NOW

HOW

@ThomBlairIII great.....

what rank am I supposed to give that one?

general and lieutenant is already taken!

Hmm....Sargent?

Commander and Conel

Commander!!

Admiral

@ThomBlairIII the silver ones are sargents

Oh

@ThomBlairIII it is the arcstone army not the arcstone navy

Total gaffe on my part XD

Um...

Captain, Brigadier, Private, Petty Officer, Corporal?

Petty Officer for Golden???

XD

Prime Minister?

President?

Lance-Constable?

Errant Knight?

Duc

EMperor

Viscount

, Esq.

Pharoh

(sp?)

idk

Pharaoh

Ah

Merci!

Gwenn, I believe this is the first time we've had the chance to meet

How do you do?

I believe it is.

Hello.

:D

Hello.

....

Well, I've never been that good with conversation

XD

:P

@ThomBlairIII then depends on what I am doing. If I am making an entry for BGMC (as I am now,) I use blender. If I am building the diamond palace, I am using creativerse.

how I do all depends on context.

Ah, is that why everybody has been AFK from Creativerse?

BGMC?

I was wondering if it had just gotten too boring

Or if people were playing their own worlds with claims

I would be playing it, but I know that I would love it too much and spend too much time on it. I do have other things I want to do this month.

I know this from experience.

Oh, well yeah, if you have things that you want to do, then you can make sure you get to them

Minecraft. :P

Minecraft?

XD

What did you make?

Lots of things.

Did you have a favorite?

Making a working one of those was my next to last project in Minecraft

My best creation was a small port town, with associated farms, roads, nether hub, etc.

And most of a replica of Maiden's Tower from Istanbul.

If I had better internet connection, I would still be building on that server.

But Minecraft multiplayer doesn't handle 2 second latencies very well. :(

@Gwenn Wow, that all sounds really interesting!

The 4 bit computer was my last project in Minecraft

They turn into 15 minute lag times.

Actually, the computer plus the 8 segment display was my last project

Ah yes, redstone.

I never had that much time on my hands. :P

A 3 digit 8 segment display counter was the last thing I was working on before I discovered there were too many bugs in Minecraft for real redstone practicallity

Because, of course, I would insist on it being in survival.

@Gwenn Oh, that's too bad

@Gwenn True

But creative mode was fun to trying things impossible in survival, like machines

In the world with the port town, I probably have enough resources that I could build a pretty decent amount of redstone stuff.

I have a friend who made a display with a full QWERTY keyboard.

I made a redstone farm the would harvest pumpkins everytime one sprouted

@Gwenn WOW!

I have a copy of his redstone experimentation world around somewhere.

It had some impressive stuff!

Do you have screen shots of your port town?

And the tower?

The port town, yeah.

Not the tower.

The server is still up, but I can't use it because of the lag.

That's too bad...

I lamented on getting forced to move to the city from the wonderful parts of the countryside

BUT, we did go from 0.27KB/s to 3MB/s

That's something

This is from before it was completed.

Fiber optic is definitely better than Verizon Wireless in nowhereville

Ah!

I'll try again.

K

WOW!!!

That's really nice work!

Very realistic looking and nice colors

:D

It almost looks like a Skyrim town

Just larger bricks

I gave up on survival mode when the zombies killed all the townspeople before I could even get to the towns

Total flop on the part of Minecraft's developers

That only happens if you get near the towns a few days before actually going into them.

I don't know if they're still developing & tweeking the AI, but it sure needed a lot of fixing before it could be functional without Creative mode

Yeah, still

If you discover the towns while out exploring, it's not a problem.

But you have to hurry to wall off the village.

Not that villagers are useful for anything.

Too many worlds got Zombie Apocolypsed for me before I could do anything about it

@Gwenn All too true

Except for Iron Golem Farms

Have you seen those?

Those are pretty cool

Yeah.

If you're putting that much effort into it, you can get villagers from zombies anyway.

@Gwenn really? I never discovered that

how?

If you feed the villager zombies a golden apple (IIRC), they get de-zombied and become regular villagers.

REALLY??

OMG

ARG!!

XP

Ah well

alas and alack

i never had much love for minecraft

No kidding!

latest update

@ThomBlairIII no. it just was kinda scary for me.

I quit several times over the ugly graphics & faces

the world is very disconcerting for some reason.

i have the same problem with creativerse to tell the truth

@ARadish I must admit, they left too many things in there that really felt to me to be adult-only -- not kid friendly or feel-good friendly

@ThomBlairIII /??/

never encountered those.

i just don't like the feel.

Having things attacking me all the time isn't that great, to me at least

@ThomBlairIII yeah. :/

Plus, big blocks is hard on the heart's asthetic desires

XD yes

and really, the whole concept is tiring. there is no goal

@ARadish Yeah, in creativerse, the only real goal there is is to get lumite everything...

I read that in the next 24 months, the evolution of Moore's Law is going to make more progress in computational power than humans have made in all the years up till now

It's fun up until that point, but after that it starts to get kind of boring

@TARDISMaker yeah, and psshhh. done. game is pointless

That'll mean a lot more possibilities in terms of games/graphics/VR, etc

like, you can build an enormous building, but without a requirement it just loses value

@ARadish no kidding

I had exactly the same feeling

@ARadish yeah

Moore's Law no longer applies, you know.

@Gwenn weird

bbl

It finally broke a few years ago, because of quantum tunneling problems. You just can't make transistors smaller anymore.

With our current materials.

@Gwenn I was wondering about that

I hadn't heard that before though

("transistors", not "resistors", typo)

Did you see this in the news?

gizmag.com/quantum-chip-photon-entanglement-swinburne-inrs/…

It seems like a neat new possibility

I have been wondering if optical computers will have heat problems like electrical computers do now

If not, then I was wondering how much faster/better the computational power can be

Yeah, no kidding!

But will they also make CPUs that need to be cooled?

Um, electrical signals move at the speed of light too...

So that's not any different.

No, in normal conditions light moves 100x as fast

Faster than electrons themselves, but not faster than the signal.

How so? And why then are fiber optics so much better?

ibtimes.co.uk/…

That seems to answer the question, at least in part, about heating/cooling in optical computers

yeah

gizmag.com/oculus-rift-review-hands-on-gdc/42311

This was pretty impressive to me

It's the first time I've seen people genuinely excited about serious, real games for VR

It's still way too expensive it seems, but they seem to be seriously making it work

VR for Blender BGE

That'd be neat

Playful (who made Creativerse) is pioneering a game for VR. They got like $200 million in investment recently.

Nice!!

This is kinda cool, if they can ever get it to work

venturebeat.com/2015/02/20/…

Idk how they'd do it without the glasses/frame though

To really make VR a SUPER AWESOME technology, though, they'd need to make non-invasive retianal stimulation produce visual resutls like retina-based augmented reality

They've got non-invasive retinal stimulation: livescience.com/47708-human-brain-link-sends-thoughts.html

And they've got retina-based augmented reality: venturebeat.com/2015/02/20/…

Fuse the two and WOW!

o.O

THAT is the future of VR and Augmented Reality

Cool stuff coming in the next 10 years!

If we don't all die that is.

No kidding!

Yeah

Donald Drumpf . . . he scares me a lot

Buspirone is awesome for me

After I started watching the news too often and seeing what people really were like, I started taking Buspirone and Hydroxyzine PAM...very good antianiety

It helps when it's all too much to bear

The feeling of things being fixed and things actually being fixed are not the same thing.

^^

Clonazapam, Buspar, Citalopram and Hydroxyzine

I think I'd just buy a thousand acres in the middle of the mountains and hide

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ And what, exactly would that actually protect you from?

@Gwenn There is a difference between fixing the outside world (which I cannot do before bedtime) and calming down my anxiety before bedtime

People

If everything goes south . . . I'm going north ;)

@ThomBlairIII I know. It's still frustrating how few people are actually working to keep humanity from self-destructing, compared to how many people laugh nervously, ignore it, and then go back to what they were doing before.

Yeah

I haven't given up yet, but it's tempting tbh

"Just let them screw themselves"

It's not "them".

Exactly, it's us

Unfriendly AI would leave no survivors.

That too

Uncontrolled self-replicating nanotech would leave no survivors.

Between Nukes and unfriendly AI that reaches the singularity . . .

@Gwenn yeah

nanobot bacteria basically

There's an enormous difference between a global catastrophe and existential catastrophe--a big difference between 1% of humanity survives and 0% of humanity survives.

I'm not afraid of the former.

@Gwenn yeah

The former is what living in the woods and having the resources and knowledge to rebuild civilization from scratch helps with. And I've got that. So do thousands of others.

It would be sad. It would be a catastrophe. But it would not be the end.

Exactly

Avoiding cities like the plague is where to start I imagine in such a situation

And so I would really appreciate it if there were more people trying to stop the latter.

yeah

Because if we get things right, the future is going to be an awesome place.

But if we get things wrong, there won't be anyone to even find value, good or otherwise, ever again.

yep

My personal conviction is that the Beast mentioned in Revelation is going to be a man made machine with a powerful AI judging from what I've seen. It seems that would fit the description well

Forgot I was talking to a Christian.

If so, what are you going to do about it?

Me? Nothing would be possible most likely, but I'd be obliged to try and do something. As a Christian I know how it ends, but it is hard to know if it is really the end until it plays out if you get what I'm saying?

@ThomBlairIII Microsoft already did that with the hololens, and people have worn working prototypes

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ :D

Haha, the Beast is gonna be an AI, huh? That'd be pretty insane! For me, I imagine its going to be not an object, but an idea. I'm just not sure what.

Anyways. Hey @Gwenn , I've been looking for more of those awesome stories, like the Harry Potter ones, and such, and I was wondering if you knew about one of those style books, (An intelligent character is thrown into a world that is seemingly impossible), about Pokemon? I'd like to see what someone has come up with for that :)

@BookWyrm17 I know of two good Pokemon ones.

Pokemon: The Origin of Species and The Game of Champions

The Game of Champions

Pokemon: The Origin of Species

@BookWyrm17 My thought is that making an intelligent machine in our image is the ultimate blasphemy of God, who made us in his image. Basically it is us saying he screwed up when making us. But hey, who knows. All we can do is wait and keep our eyes open

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ Now, I'm not Christian myself, but I am familiar with the ideology--and this isn't actually relevant to anything--but isn't that pretty much opposite to Christian doctrine? What makes humans supposedly special compared to other animals or angels is that humans were given a part of the Christian god's own creative power.

We are made in the image of God we believe, and given the ability to make choices and to worship Him.

That sums it up pretty much

Think of the story of the Tower of Babel

Forgive me, but I don't think that sums it up.

ok

What exactly did you think?

Creativity in and of itself is certainly not a bad thing, but again, this would be more of a tower of Babel scenario. It would likely be looked to to solve various problems, and in many ways take the place of God

If "given the ability to make choices" and "made in the image of God" are key human attributes, then doesn't that mean that making an artificial intelligence would be pretty much exactly in line with that?

Also, I'm don't remember the Tower of Babel story any more than "it has something to do with languages, I think?"

@Gwenn I don't quite get what you are asking . . ?

Ping me with clarification if you feel like it, I'll bbl

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ You said that according to Christian doctrine building AI would be blashpemy. I think that according to the same doctrine, it's pretty much okay.

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ I don't think it's actually relevant either way, because I think that Christian doctrine is wrong, but I'm willing to discuss it "as if".

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ From what I understand, either I am missing something in my knowledge of Christian doctrine, or you are misinterpreting it. I honestly do not know which one it is.

@Gwenn I'd tend to think that building an overpowered AI, depending on it, and looking to it as "the optimizer of the world" is essentially on par with idol worship. I could be wrong. And so could you. let us never forget either of those important pieces of imformation.

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ seriously doubted.

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ is that what you were trying to say?

@X-27 Exactly

@Gwenn The tower of babel isn't about the languages, it's about when lots of people where together in one place, speaking one language, so they where able to communicate extremely well. They decided that they would build a tower for their own glory. God didn't like that because they where putting themselves in front of him, so he gave them a bunch of different languages so they couldn't communicate

The act itself is not the issue, the ideology

@Gwenn Acc. to the story of the tower of babel, its was blasphemous to build too tall of a tower.

@X-27 how?

Because that tower was a challenge to God, like the AI would be.

@GiantCowFilms No

@GiantCowFilms the purpose was, but building towers is fine

@X-27 If we're stretching it that far, then wouldn't having children be considered "idol worship"?

@GiantCowFilms Yes

@ARadish Exactly

@Gwenn lol

Also, liking just about anything?

@Gwenn i think they're going a bit far here.

@Gwenn Idol worship to christians, is putting anything ahead of God

@GiantCowFilms not so much, it was a direct defiance of the command, fill the earth and subdue it. Everyone building a city was basically like saying, "We are going to ignore that and stay right here"

@TARDISMaker yeah, but making an AI doesn't mean your doing that

So if I decide to put Blender ahead of God, I'd be worshiping Blender

@ARadish Nope

so whats the problem with AI?

@TARDISMaker exactly. (now that is a scary thought)

worshiping Blender....

To the people who are going to create the first human-level AGI, they are going to view it either as a tool (like a hammer) or as a child.

@Gwenn lol, and true too.

I don't see how either one of those is idol worship.

@ARadish Nothing in and of itself, but the entire world could look to it as a savior at some point

^^^ yep.

Okay, so let's just stop here

the people building it would probably have very good intentions.

@Gwenn Worshipping anything more than God is idol worship :)

Because we're going to be taking this too far I think

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ thats the worlds problem, not mine

It's not bad right now, but it could get that way if we continue

the people building it would probably think they were going to create the biggest technological breakthrough in history.

Yeah, I'm going to go with @TARDISMaker on this one. Let's stop.

It won't be h2o this time :P It will be oxidization

@X-27 and they would be

@Gwenn Yes

right until they figure out they can't control their crreation.

I propose we BBQ @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ, intead

lol

Fun fact: cows call human meat beef. Its a long story.

I am disinterestedly curious, and I just wanted to ask questions because I legitimately do not know. But too many people are involved for us to all avoid stepping on toes.

@GiantCowFilms Really?

@GiantCowFilms Do cows eat human meat and call it a hamburger?

What does it taste like?

The giant cow eats humans!!!!!

EEEEK!!!!!

@TARDISMaker Nah, cows don't live in Hamburg due to city ordinance. (jk I don't actually know)

@Gwenn lol

@Gwenn Yeah, if this was in person or something like that, I'd love to have that sort of conversation, but not really a good idea here

"No cows open in the streets. concealed carry permitted"

The other problem is that people like me don't quite remember the entire story, but still offer opinions.

@X-27 XD

I've got a cow under my jacket, don't mess with me.

@GiantCowFilms "Sir, I'm going to have to give you a warning. your concealed carry cow is not totally concealed, a horn is sticking out of your jacket collar, and his tail is swaying below your overcoat."

Anyone want to play a game of chess?

Just one though, and then I have to get back to work.

vanishes

@X-27 bovines the cop

@Gwenn I want to, however, I cannot

(making an awesome upgrade to my tank)

@TARDISMaker yeah, lots is lost in transmission. Mostly just the important bits

@Gwenn toes grow back eventually

@ARadish you have experience with toes growing back?

@X-27 Sir, never mind that, did you fail to notice that I, myself, am I cow?

@GiantCowFilms and you are not concealed! that isn't your cow's tail and your cow's horn, that is Your horn and Your tail!!

Tuck in tail, pull ups hoodie

Puts on ski mask

Good to go, sir?

That warrens a direct violation of statute #1111779913285695. Your fine is $0.01 for first offenders. you may pay by mail.

then we will reply by mail, confirming your payment of $0.01 was received.

don't you just love the government? stuff like that actually happens!

@Gwenn I do, if the offer's still up

I haven't had a chance to play you yet

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