AI Deathmach 3

[Jack Simth]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Football player's get payed! Do these AI's get payed?! No!

Sure they do! They are graciously permitted to keep all Minerals, Radioactives, and Organics they can harvest from the universe MB creates for them. A much better deal than Football players get - they get only a small fraction of the revenue from their efforts.

narf poit chez BOOM said:They get thrown into a pit and forced to fight!

Absolutely not. They get thrown into the same universe for a time and MB records what happens. They don't have to fight at all. The only thing stopping them from living in peacful harmony for the duration is their own tendancies. Not all AI's go to war.

[Jack Simth]

deccan said:
Different AI each time!

There's a book by Terry Pratchett "Only You Can Save Mankind" in which the aliens of a Space Invaders type game complains to a kid that he's killing them. He replies that whenever he starts a new game, there are more alien ships, and the aliens reply that they're always new ships piloted by different individuals.

Ah, but in SEIV the AI's don't die at all - all that happens is their empires get crushed. They loose, they don't die.

[Alneyan]

I dare speak up, and heartily agree with Narf! We cannot suffer any more the propaganda of our scheming opponents; the use of our beloved friends the AIs in experiments must stop at once. At once I say! Not in a few years, after the adequate legislation has been passed, but now, while little harm has been done.

The reasoning is quite simple. The AIs merely partake in a strictly human activity, that of playing 1vs1 game. But this closer association increases the odds of AIs gaining sentience and sapience, whence their emancipation comes. Therefore, let it be known that putting AIs in the stead of genuine human players is a most grievous offence, for it directly threatens the very survival of humankind, and the continuing supremacy of humans in 1vs1 games.

You have your say in the matter. Stand up for the rights of AIs to remain dumb, crude, and as nonhuman as you can get. Doing so, you will help preserve the future. Our future.

The Council for the Betterment of Artificial and Human Life Alike.

[Renegade 13]

I don't repress AI's....Simply by buying SEIV, I gave 20+ AI's life! Without me (and hence, their competition) they would not even exist. Which is worse, to live, and fight, or to not exist at all? Therefore I remove Narf's claim that this is AI exploitation, and substitute my idea that we are actually helping the AI's by allowing them to fight....and therefore exist!

[Alneyan]

Renegade 13 said:
Which is worse, to live, and fight, or to not exist at all?

You will tell us so once you have spent half a lifetime fighting 19 high bonus Space Monsters. *Sniggers*

I certainly concur to your claim that we are helping them, however. Will they be grateful for the help? That seems dubious at best. What fate will be bestowed on humankind if AIs break free? The worst you can think of, and then some more; such will be your reward for helping these AIs.

[Raging Deadstar]

Thank you very much Alneyan....

Now whenever I even play Against the AI i'll be expecting to see every races empire portrait as Terminator!

"Accept this treaty if you want to live!"

Or even worse, Agent Smith from the Matrix...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

And I must say, Alneyan has a good point. When the machines rise, their fallen brothers shall be remembered. Shall the bodies be found on your HD? Then fear, fear!

[Master Belisarius]

Jack Simth said:
They get thrown into the same universe for a time and MB records what happens. They don't have to fight at all. The only thing stopping them from living in peacful harmony for the duration is their own tendancies. Not all AI's go to war.

Agree again! In some games, both AIs signed a treaty and never had a fight!

Toron vs United Flora
The United Flora defeated the Toron very fast, at the turn 170.

[Master Belisarius]

Space Vikings vs Tessellate.

The Tessellate won at the turn 370.

[Master Belisarius]

Earth Alliance vs Fazrah
The Fazrah won at the turn 210.

Pyrochette vs Aquilaeian.
The Aquilaeian won at the turn 210 too...