[gurps] Failing autopilots and RVO

[Knapp]

> Can quantity replace quality, or just simulate it?

If the answer is correct then it is correct. Do you remember those old
text based adventures were you could sort of chat with the characters,
post Zork stuff? I was thinking that it really would not be very hard
to take 10000 people playing that came on the net and have a 10000
other people playing the NPCs of the game. Have everything written
recorded for a year and then just have the computer play back the best
matches. I bet it would appear to be very good and this is just a
simple database search based on a massive amount of data. Add some
smarts and it might be Turing level good, it might pass without the
smarts too.

>And just how sure are you about those growth predictions?

I did not check them but the doubling every 14 months has been going
on for a long time and shows little sign of stopping any time soon.
Also the 14 month time keeps getting shorter. What happens when it
almost reaches the 0 asymptote? Infinite progress in 0 time?? That is
a mind blower and could be interesting to throw at your players!

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> "The Free Lunch is Over", Microsoft says. Unless developers
> go parallel, which might be just what Monte Carlo or neural
> net computing needs, of course.

Don't know about your computer but mine is parallel now with 2 CPUs.
The nice shine new ones I like to drool over have 4 CPUs. Most of my
software is threaded too (Nice to use Linux). So parallel is here now
and in the super computers it is way old news.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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