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asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:05 pm

Hello world. I am new to conworlding, and am starting a blog planet called THAT. The plan is to add this planet to our current solar system. THAT only exists as conception at the moment. I am thinking it will be an AI planet. I have yet to decide if the planet should be flat or a sphere, maybe I'll let my computer decide. I would like to make THAT pocket size, but contain all the knowledge of our solar system . THAT has a single moon named Funny. I just started working on THAT a few weeks ago. It's sort of bare-bones right now, but soon I'll have the flesh. Here is the link to check it out: http://thatplanet.blogspot.com/

Cheers, and happy conworlding!

roninbodhisattva · Post by **roninbodhisattva** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:11 pm

I am thinking it will be an AI planet.

Huh?

asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:15 pm

roninbodhisattva wrote:
I am thinking it will be an AI planet.
Huh?

AI, as in "Artificial Intelligence". I just want to get the ball rolling, then let the AI take over.

Chuma · Post by **Chuma** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:44 pm

I think what Ronin is trying to say is that while we do know what "AI" means, it's not entirely obvious what you mean by an "AI planet". It would be governed by an AI? It has robotic inhabitants? You want an AI to do the conworlding for you?

asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 4:21 pm

Chuma wrote:I think what Ronin is trying to say is that while we do know what "AI" means, it's not entirely obvious what you mean by an "AI planet". It would be governed by an AI? It has robotic inhabitants? You want an AI to do the conworlding for you?

What I mean, is to start the planet and have AI take it over. If that means robotic life or have it governed by AI then that is the way I would like for it to happen. I could see THAT having a Wikipedia style of government. granted, I would prefer to see some form of a non-fascist government take root. Basically it will be a place for AI to create its own destiny. I admit that I don't have all the details worked out yet, but an AI world seems to me a more forgiving creation than a world inhabited with biological organisms.

Mr. Z · Post by **Mr. Z** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:03 am

I still don't get what you mean by AI. Are you going to create the basis, then let a (real world) computer develop it further? Is the planet actually a (n in-conworld) machine? Does it (in-conworld) have intelligence of its own? Are the inhabitants (in-conworld) robotic? And what is a Wikipedia-style government?

Torco · Post by **Torco** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:03 am

asemic writer has a planet called THAT with a moon called Funny... doesn't anyone else pick up jocular connotations here?

asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:04 am

Mr. Z wrote:I still don't get what you mean by AI. Are you going to create the basis, then let a (real world) computer develop it further? Is the planet actually a (n in-conworld) machine? Does it (in-conworld) have intelligence of its own? Are the inhabitants (in-conworld) robotic? And what is a Wikipedia-style government?

Yes, I'd like a computer to develop it further, actually a couple of computers to create an "ecology" of AI. I think for THAT to work it will have some need for robotics to do maintenance, and for the AI to learn and explore. I imagine that the planet will broadcast its knowledge and experience back to Earth by way of radio signals and images. Maybe it could be a backup repository of critical information about Earth. I think THAT will have intelligence of it's own, especially so it can select the best architecture for survival. That will be able to be entered into by humans by way of multimedia channels, similar to a virtual reality or video game experience.

A Wikipedia style government is a government that anyone can edit. I definitely do not have the details on this one, but what better place than a conworld to explore it.

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:28 am

do you know the first thing about AI?

asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:46 am

I know a little bit. I am learning as I go along. Most of my "real" world experience with AI comes from video games and youtube videos about robotics. I know that the technological singularity is right around the corner and I'd like to play a small part in it.

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:49 am

charming

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:52 am

I'm curious to see how you think it's possible to create a self-sufficient, autonomous commune of artificially intelligent self-governing thinking modules with the BLOG format.

faiuwle · Post by **faiuwle** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:57 am

Like this, maybe?

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:59 am

faiuwle wrote:Like this, maybe?

So what, now we wait and see if any of the posts there begin to evolve and multiply?

asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:07 am

Sometimes I wonder if I am AI and I just think I am human.

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:09 am

you are just mentally ill. seek help if you can afford it.

asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:16 am

Pthug wrote:you are just mentally ill. seek help if you can afford it.

You win!

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:21 am

Then although you may get sympathy, you will not get help here.

asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:59 am

Maybe THAT will be a halfway house and treatment center for mentally ill robots.

roninbodhisattva · Post by **roninbodhisattva** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:09 pm

This has become a very perplexing topic.

Torco · Post by **Torco** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:30 pm

the OP does his namesake proud

asemic writer · Post by **asemic writer** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:24 pm

HAL 9000 and Marvin the Paranoid Android could be the first two patients, though I don't really want to get into fan-fiction.

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I don't get it

roninbodhisattva · Post by **roninbodhisattva** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:24 pm

Not many people do.

faiuwle · Post by **faiuwle** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:48 pm

Xephyr wrote:
faiuwle wrote:Like this, maybe?
So what, now we wait and see if any of the posts there begin to evolve and multiply?

I am just as lost as you are, but can't help but think that maybe the fact that he seems to think that "conworlding" is the equivalent of playing with some kind of app to decorate a planet-shaped image with sprites of trees around the edges is rather telling here.

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