From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 16:34:51 MST
Emlyn O'regan wrote:
>
> I wonder if, with all the simulation computer games out there now, and
> massively multiplayer games, we are training our kids to understand complex
> systems in a deeper, though more intuitive way, than their elders do?
The question is *what kind* of complex systems they are being trained to
understand. Some relevant properties may not generalize from the kind of
complex systems that programmers create to the kind of complex systems that
arise in real-world ecologies, just as the social systems that arise in
MMPGs may not be fully analogous to our own society. I would not say that
they are being trained to understand complex systems, but rather that they
are being trained as an army of conquest under the command of the game
designers.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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