I'm going to work on an artificial life program in LISP. Text-based, will write the parser-renderer in C later. I've seen a lot of AL programs; being just grandiose state machines I'm pretty sure writing one would be within my capabilities.
...but I don't want to write a cookie-cutter one either that's just full of animals eating each other and mutating. I'm not looking to write Spore, but I am seeking some ideas. What are some concepts that haven't been explored too deeply in AL programs that would be interesting to see attempted?
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Anonymous2006-06-12 19:21
REPRODUCTION AND INSTINCTIVE MATING... seriously...
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Anonymous2006-06-12 19:58
Get a book from your local library. Artifical Life is a pretty popular topic.
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Anonymous2006-06-13 2:36
I remember reading something about AI. The algorithim went something like this:
1. Try random action
2. Did it work?
3. If so, repeat it.
4. If not, goto 1.
for (;;) {
p = penis_size
a = RandomAction()
ExecuteAction(a)
while (penis_size > p) {
p = penis_size
ExecuteAction(a)
}
}
ExecuteAction() sets the penis_size to a number which is calculated with some function where you take into account the number of resources or accumulated happiness you have versus everybody else's. This will implement the Will to Power.
That looks like code to an erotic RPG that I began to write when I was really, really horny. It was going to take place in a Corbenesque world where everyone is completely naked and completely built well.
I wrote about 800 lines of code before I finally ejaculated... after I shot my load into the wastebasket I was all, "... this is a STUPID idea." And deleted the code.
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Anonymous2006-06-14 3:45
Artificial Intelligence has not been able to reproduce consciousness yet because they didn't implement Penis. The reason why some living beings have true intelligence is because they have a penis. Through it they can find goals for their life and act by themselves, without a pre-programmed script or rules. We will be able to create true AI once we implement Penis.
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Anonymous2006-06-14 4:16
The reason why some living beings have true intelligence is because they have a penis.
<insert dumb blonde joke>
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Anonymous2006-06-14 20:37
A basic AI would think something like this:
Hungry? move(at speed i) until reach food or die cuz no energy.
See mate? move(at speed i) until reach mate or die cuz no energy.
want to mate? (if partner speed >= my speed) mate!
this would cuse the animal to look for food and move towards it if hungry or not hungry (food is always good).
if it see's a mate, but is hungry, go for the food (survival > chance to mate).
if at mate but hungry, mate (mating > survival).
now make this more advace by adding.. looks? ammount of food capable of storing in stomage.
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Anonymous2006-06-15 22:26
THIS CONSCIOUSNESS THING THAT MOST PHILOSOPHER TYPES THINK MAKES US SO SPECIAL IS REALLY A VERY EASY THING TO IMPLEMENT IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING.
What is meant by "consciousness" in the above context is "self-consciousness", not in the connotation of being bashful or shy, but being *conscious* (aka knowing) of *the self*.
A program knows of itself if it maintains data structures that represent itself. The more elaborate the abstraction, the better quality the self-consciousness of the program.
THREAD OVER.
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Anonymous2006-06-15 23:37
Leaf hates you all
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Anonymous2006-06-16 3:23
>>10
Therefore Lisp programs must be omniscient because Lisp code is represented as the fundamental Lisp data structure, the list, and can be operated on at runtime.
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Anonymous2009-01-14 5:09
Try Game of Life and then cellular automata theory
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Anonymous2009-03-06 11:33
The other thread might be using All sorts of problems might arise Nothing.
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