HL scientists who can shoot? Michael
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juan Fernando Mora Mu�oz Sent: Sunday, 14 November 2004 6:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] tei's dumb-bots 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. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
