May 20th, 2008
#66: mommy issues
Hey look the wiki’s back. I’m going to hold off on putting it up on the navigation bar until I have in a state that’s somewhat more complete and presentable, but I might as well let you all start playing around with it right now. :)
May 20th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Is that another flashback coming on?
May 21st, 2008 at 3:35 am
Shouldn’t people be more worried that it thinks sentient life is computers?
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:50 am
Honestly, ARIA has at least as good an answer to that question as anybody else does.
Which isn’t to say that it’s a good answer.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 am
Calculating large numbers is fun though. Perhaps ARIA is making a logic error very typical of human beings, that is, confusing the specific with the general. Consider — one can actually win monetary prizes for finding particular really huge numbers. Try a google search on the “Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search”. I haven’t looked myself for a month or so, so someone might have found it already, but there’s a fairly significant prize going for the person or organization that finds the first Mersenne prime a million decimal digits long. That is, find the least p such that p = 2^q - 1, for prime p and q, and for which p >= 10^1000000.
Doesn’t all that stuff sound fun? Don’t you like doing fun things? ARIA must be on to something.
May 24th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I don’t s’pose that’s a G’krigg Court reference there? :D either way it’s one of the best greetings for an AI or any talking object to give, especially if it’s just doing it to random people. :D
May 30th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Which is to say that it’s a very bad question. “Motivation of sapient life”? What does that even mean? How does “motivation” even apply to “sapient life”? Why did Napoleon cross the Mississippi?
42. That’s a good answer.