Re: [-empyre-] sidebar - continued discussion between John Klima and Bill Seaman - part 2

[John Klima <john_klima@cityarts.com>]

shout out to marcus for cleaning up the exchange. thanks!

bill said:

> I like how you place the deeply intellectual into
> a context of the deeply pragmatic. 
>  
That process is the very core of my being. Until I witness the 
intellectual manifest into something concrete, it is just a bunch of 
fancy words. I'm not suggesting that the pragmatic has more value (I've 
been misunderstood in the past regarding this point, so I now feel the 
need to be quite clear about it :).  When I hear a bunch fancy words 
that inexplicably feel right, I want to prove it. The context I work in, 
that of gaming, is (i feel) uniquely capable of demonstrating the deeply 
intellectual in pragamatic terms because a game is understood a-priori 
to be the shadow on the cave wall and not the truth itself - though it 
is the complete truth internally, to itself, within the confines of it's 
system.

A new bot AI needs only to build upon existing capabilities to produce 
an incremental improvement in believability.  Every nook and cranny of 
it's brain does not need accounting for. This way , one can (relatively) 
quickly determine if the bunch of fancy words are headed in a good 
direction. Also, a pragmatic implementation has the striking ability to 
cut through the vagaries of definition, meaning, and context. It renders 
the word game mute. The [game] world is everthing, that is the case.

j