That sounds like Robocode CS wow... it would be amazing... =)
-JF-
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: [hlcoders] tei's dumb-bots
Hi All -
Subject: [hlcoders] Idea: no-competitive bot, implementation of stupidity This is a idea for a new type of bots. Purposelly idiots, designed for coward, idiocity and obnosiuxity. "Non-competitive" bots. From: tei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Dumb-bots" -- this is a smart idea, I like it.
I have had similar thoughts about various kinds of bots -- an ecosystem of intelligences, some entities dumber, some entities smarter.
Intelligence is not necessarily a survival trait. Consider us, for example: if we nuke ourselves to extinction, the survival value of our big beautiful brains drops to zero. Would be interesting to mix various kinds of bot-intelligences, just to witness their interactions.
Taken to an extreme, one could build a first-person equivalent of genetic algorithm modeling, where entities represent ideas (e.g. gas-engine turbine design) ... iterate the entities through many many generations ... entities evolve ... the long-term survivor represents the entity best adapted to it's environment (i.e. most efficient gas-engine turbine).
Also, I like the idea that Art Imitates Life ... therefore Art should have dumb entities, just as Life does.
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