RE: Alice is Not Enough

2001-01-30 Thread Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jcma/papers/1986-ai-memo-871/subsection3_8_1.ht ml Y'all might enjoy that as more food for thought. The notions of plot molecules are interesting. "Plot units provide a unvalidated but nevertheless interesting vocabulary for designating affective relationships and

RE: Alice is Not Enough

2001-01-29 Thread Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)
Feedback into discoverability. We have agents for that, what I might like to call, Golem worlds. At the point at which the Golem is entertaining, it is effective because it is affective. A shoot-em-up in a maze is surprising but not astonishing. A monster that makes you answer its

RE: Alice is Not Enough

2001-01-29 Thread Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)
Not oddly, we find that in almost all worlds, the relationships of simplicity to beauty holds. That which is attractive is also subjectively simple. http://personal.centric.net/natasha/locoface/ I am sitting here working on a paper on ontologies and find myself repeating the phrase, a

RE: Alice is Not Enough

2001-01-29 Thread Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)
Sophistication and value: this would indicate to me that the value of the story, subjectively, would be in the cost to recreate the experience. If we create a story that is not "superficial" then we have introduced algorithms that will make the experience highly and subjectively unique.

RE: Alice is Not Enough

2001-01-29 Thread Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)
- From: Jed Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Alice is Not Enough Len wrote: Not oddly, we find that in almost all worlds, the relationships of simplicity to beauty holds. That which is attractive is also subjectiv