[gurps] Failing autopilots and RVO

[David Scheidt]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
 state of the art generally is in 2008.
>
> Admittedly, the theories don't seem a whole lot better than 1975, there is
> just more computer power and storage available now.

Utter codswallop.  The theory is a whole lot more advance today, in
2009, than it was in 2000, let alone what it was done in '75.  Some of
that is that it's easier to do experiments if you have ready access to
computing resources, and don't have to compete for them, of course.
But lots of it is sound theoretical advances.

>

> So computers have been rewriting their own rules since 1975.  Sure.  But not
> the rules for writing those rules, or the rules for the rules for the rules,
> etc.

Of course they can.  I've done a bunch of work in the field.  What
you're saying isn't just wrong, it's so wrong, it's not even untrue.
It's just nonsense.  In the right problem domain, computers
can do just this -- even to the point of building a new machine that's
better at it.


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David Scheidt
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