So… remember a few years back there was this “bring your fandom to work” thing where people wrote fic set in AUs where their favourite characters worked in the same kind of work setting that the fic authors worked in and basically it was the concept of the coffeeshop AU taken so much further? Anyone up for bringing that back? Because I desperately want to see an Avengers-inna-restaurant AU ok. Or a Teen-Wolves-as-game-designers AU. Or Hockey-Players-as-hospital-staff AU. Or a newspaper news room AU. Retail AU (especially at Christmas time). Lawyer AU. Even just normal corporate office AU (with all attending drama and office politics). Give me aaallll the AUs, is what I am saying. =D
i like crossovers but i really like the idea of dc and marvel being fictional in eachothers worlds like the teen titans are gonna go see the avengers at the movies tomorrow on their day out and then beast boys gonna do his best hulk impression all day meanwhile a universe over the young avengers are passing around the lastest batman issue and arguing about who could take batman in a fight
Researchers at MIT were surprised when they discovered that an A.I. which was designed to play League of Legends was instead found playing the popular indie game, Cave Story. The A.I., dubbed Playtron 2000, was created to test logic and learning in machines. “We wanted to create an A.I. that could learn and strategize over time based on its experiences.” spoke Dr. Richards, head researcher at MI, “We chose League of Legends as Playtron 2000′s testing grounds as we wanted to see how an A.I. that was designed to learn from its mistakes would go up against an expect human player.”
However, the researchers plans were cut short when they found on Tuesday morning that Playtron 2000 had uninstalled League of Legends and installed Cave Story in its wake. “At first we thought there may have been an error in Playtron 2000′s code,” spoke Dr. Richards, “but we discovered that Playtron 2000 had indeed gone through a complex trial and error process and had made its decision entirely logically.”
Similar experiments were ran earlier this year with two A.I.’s designed to play DOTA 2, which ended in the A.I.’s uninstalling DOTA 2 to play Bejeweled and Castle Crashers respectively. Research into why this happens is still ongoing.
Okay, this is definitely impressive but more than a little bit freaky. An AI just figured out how to install and uninstall software from its host computer; how long until one just figures out how to change its source code?
The 4th of July, its the day that people put American flags outside their homes expecting a visit from Captain America who arrives in a sleigh powered by eight bald eagles giving fireworks, who then goes and has his birthday party.
Okay, leaving aside the incompetence of this apparent attempt to embed an infohazard, why would a parrot be a good mascot for warding off meat? Parrots are made of the same stuff. Why not “reblog Meatbane Terminator” or something?
Outside-Setting:
Thanks for getting me (both you and the commenter) to look up Langford’s Basilisk content!
He’s apparently an SF author, it’s great.
Read this! Or, if you’re ridiculously paranoid, turn on an image blocker and read it. ;)
…Probably one of the reasons I like it is it’s fictional evidence for “don’t censor kids’ lives”, despite the fact that it is not an actual argument for not doing that.
That is probably supposed to be the point, but I was distracted by “don’t blanket censor, fine-tune censor”. I would expect biochips to work more like antiviruses, selectively blocking the dangerous bits and leaving everything else intact, though at the cost of a window of opportunity where weapons that are new enough can still affect you. (Mind you, the window of opportunity would still be far shorter than their current one. The Parrot’s been around for so long that kids old enough to hold their own in adult conversations can’t remember a time before, and it can still affect people? Really?) Rendering yourself blind should be an option available for the paranoid just as disconnecting your Internet access is an option available for the cyber-paranoid, perhaps also the “site whitelist” system like what they’re currently using, but these should be neither the first choice nor the only ones available.
Yes, vaccination would be better still, but my complaint is not so much “they should do that” as “why aren’t they already doing that?”. Not the ideal, but the baseline upon which they should be improving.
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#infohazards #(I read it with an image blocker on principle) #reply via reblog
#home of the brave #actually I’m pretty sure the fireworks-happy neighbours from down the street see it as an excuse to set off leftover Canada Day fireworks #or maybe they don’t actually need an excuse #they’ve been setting off fireworks since June 29th #it’s Canada Week I guess
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