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[sisyphus]

Klosterman wonders where is the Lester Bangs of video games; why a gamer hasn't come along as articulate, passionate and insightful as Lester Bangs was about music. It's probably because they're too busy beating Halo 2 on Legendary or finishing up Oblivion. You can write about music while listening to it. Try writing about lighting effects,

Comments

re: hockey

[merlynspen]

my dad used to make my brother be the little skinny guys and he'd be all the fat guys so that if he skated into my brother's guys they'd go spinning out of control.

i used to like to pick all medium guys and make them get in fights.

[chgriffen]

People get bent out of shape over artificial intelligence because they conflate their own perception with the actual existence of consciousness.

A computer does not produce words. It draws a bunch of pixels on a screen. What makes them even "Hello world" words is US perceiving and interpreting them. They wouldn't be there to be thusly interpreted, either, without someone who knows our alphabet and language creating the software just so. In other words, there's nothing intelligent in it per se, it's a creation that's only meaningful because the creator is exterior and shares a common interpretative vocabulary with the audience.

Consciousness is not possible based on precision, it's only possible based on fuzzy associative abilities, which computers will never possess.

[devilsmurf]

"the Ruby programming lanaguge is a Tolstoyan hedgehog while Perl is a Nietzschean fox"

What the fuck, have you been reading Good to Great?

[sisyphus]

hell no, i wouldn't read that shit. the hedghog and the fox come from a famous-ass isiah berlin essay.

[ragnus]

dude how you doing man? haven't heard from you in a while. what you been up to?

anyway, I cited you on my paper. it has nothing to do with ladder theory. it was something you told me a few years ago on AIM.