This is right off my FB status, but anyways...
A useful skill to have in any game (particulary SC2) is to be able to know if your teammate(s) is/are likely to rage quit. Unfortunately I don't have that skill and ended up doing a 1 vs 4 which lasted for a good 20 minutes (turtling Terrans FTW!)
The game after that one, a 3 vs 3, I scouted a reaper rush coming well before it happened (why the Terran player didn't change build, I have no idea) and one of my teammates decided to completely ignore the warning. S/he got attacked first by a small army of 4 reapers and some SCV's were destroyed before I managed to chase off the reapers. Then what does my teammate do in response? Rage quit.
Eh, I can understand rage quitting in FPS or RPG but you NEVER rage quit in RTS, especially when your teammates are doing well and are trying to help you.
There's my rant of the day.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Hello world.
And happy fourth of July. I've decided to start blogging today because I have some spare time on my hands.
A typical person would start off with "As a reader, you might want to know a bit more me..." but no. I'll jump right into a topic. You'll find out what kind of person I am as you read my posts. ^^
Let's talk about robot ethics.
Many people have this fear that robots will eventually develop the capacity to destroy, or even "enslave" the human race as they are developed, enhanced, and even humanized. Media often puts a negative spin on robots by portraying them as Sentinels or Terminators. In many ways, this view of robots may be detrimental to technological progress.
First of all, we already have robots that are designed to kill humans. Even more, they are being used in a daily basis. For example, the newly developed Predator and even more recent Reaper "aerobots" (aka drones) are being used to kill insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States military. The operator, or "pilot", controls the bot which targets and destroys potential enemies while sitting in some facility a safe distance from the combat zone. These called "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", they are still considered robots.
Maybe you were thinking of an autonomous machine, something independent of a human operator, controlled entirely by a program. Such robots are already in development. Although they may not look like the more sophisticated, android-like, stereotypical, "robots that kill people", they are equally destructive.
But lets take a look at the other side of robots. There are robots that can rescue people from dangerous situations, robots that help people in their daily lives, robots that aid in surgery, robots that beat chess masters, pet robots, and even just friendly robots that just dance. We interact them in our daily lives. In fact, you are using a robot brain to view this blog right now. Instead of executing "physical" commands, your computer is using several processing units to convert and display information on a screen. The point is, robots are shaped by us humans.
Drones with the same level of sophistication are being used to rescue people on one side of the globe while they are used to kill people on the other side. Ultimately, what a robot does depends on what it was created to do which depends on what the creator wanted. As technology continues to advance, robots that can think like humans will undoubtedly develop. Instead of fearing this technology, I believe we should embrace it and integrate robots further into our lives. Cautionary measures can be taken but labeling robots as "evil" or "harmful" will not bring us anywhere.
There's my first blog post. More to come later. I'll probably end up covering a whole bunch of different topics that are stuck in my brain.
A typical person would start off with "As a reader, you might want to know a bit more me..." but no. I'll jump right into a topic. You'll find out what kind of person I am as you read my posts. ^^
Let's talk about robot ethics.
Many people have this fear that robots will eventually develop the capacity to destroy, or even "enslave" the human race as they are developed, enhanced, and even humanized. Media often puts a negative spin on robots by portraying them as Sentinels or Terminators. In many ways, this view of robots may be detrimental to technological progress.
First of all, we already have robots that are designed to kill humans. Even more, they are being used in a daily basis. For example, the newly developed Predator and even more recent Reaper "aerobots" (aka drones) are being used to kill insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States military. The operator, or "pilot", controls the bot which targets and destroys potential enemies while sitting in some facility a safe distance from the combat zone. These called "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", they are still considered robots.
Maybe you were thinking of an autonomous machine, something independent of a human operator, controlled entirely by a program. Such robots are already in development. Although they may not look like the more sophisticated, android-like, stereotypical, "robots that kill people", they are equally destructive.
But lets take a look at the other side of robots. There are robots that can rescue people from dangerous situations, robots that help people in their daily lives, robots that aid in surgery, robots that beat chess masters, pet robots, and even just friendly robots that just dance. We interact them in our daily lives. In fact, you are using a robot brain to view this blog right now. Instead of executing "physical" commands, your computer is using several processing units to convert and display information on a screen. The point is, robots are shaped by us humans.
Drones with the same level of sophistication are being used to rescue people on one side of the globe while they are used to kill people on the other side. Ultimately, what a robot does depends on what it was created to do which depends on what the creator wanted. As technology continues to advance, robots that can think like humans will undoubtedly develop. Instead of fearing this technology, I believe we should embrace it and integrate robots further into our lives. Cautionary measures can be taken but labeling robots as "evil" or "harmful" will not bring us anywhere.
There's my first blog post. More to come later. I'll probably end up covering a whole bunch of different topics that are stuck in my brain.
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