Showing posts with label artificial intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artificial intelligence. Show all posts
Monday, September 26, 2016
Iteration 209 - How Many Planets are You?
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In this iteration: Ryan laments the shutting down of another one of his online passtimes: Avengers Alliance. Then we get into a long discussion about the planet that was found orbiting Proxima Centauri. With several tangents on Pluto's planetary status, the nature of science, astronomy versus biology, and nerds arguing. Then we get into artificial intelligence. We get into some armchair philosophizing about how society, culture, creativity, and ethics emerge from multiple intelligences. Finally, we are joined by Ryan's daughter Zoey for a review of Disney's Robin Hood animated film. And Ryan talks a bit about the musical style and accents of the film being non-British.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Iteration 185 - Robot Angel Philosophy
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We start off this week's iteration of the show with a short discussion about actors playing actors, in a kind of recursive reality. And the amount of artfulness that it seems to take to pretend not to be competent at something you're actually good at. In games this week, Josh figured out how to recover a Minecraft save. Has more fun with villagers. Ryan watches and reviews Barbarella (1968 film). Which spawns our main topic for the episode: talking about angels who forget, and whether forgetting is necessary for forgiveness, and whether artificial intelligence should be programmed for forgiveness or forgetfulness, or both. Josh comes up with an idea for a league of drone do-gooders. And we argue about philosophy and morality.
References and Recommendations:
Barbarella (1968 Jane Fonda film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_%28film%29
Monday, November 9, 2015
Iteration 166 - Robots in Simulations
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In this iteration: Update on our nanowrimo projects (spoiler: we procrastinated). Ryan comes up with a right-wing conspiracy theory. We play hardball with Warren Buffett on the ship of fools that is Las Vegas? Josh and Ryan play video games and watch TV. Ryan reviews the Mr. Peabody and Sherman movie. Our main discussion topic is just about robots. Robots as characters, robots versus aliens, robots as bad guys, and robots as loot and treasure.
References and Recommendations:
National Novel Writing Month: http://nanowrimo.org/
Kathy's vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kQ5QmD8UbQ
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014 film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0864835/
Girl Genius (webcomic) http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php
Monday, June 30, 2014
Iteration 095 - The Littlest Nomads
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The Littlest Nomads
Josh and Ryan talk about all the simulations they've been running this week: Josh prepares for some in-public D&D, Ryan plays Marvel Online, Josh writes himself a sitcom, Ryan notices a coincidence with the Tagalog word for onions and Ghostbusters lore, Mutants, mixing and matching genetic mutations for awesome comic book and video game characters. And once all the tangents are out of the way, for our main topic, we discuss how a nomadic lifestyle applies to the world of Dungeons & Dragons.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Iteration 068 - Knights versus Cowboys
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Discussion Topics:
D&D Fifth Edition
Cowboys versus Knights, which is cooler?
References and Recommendations:
Mindcrack http://www.guudelp.com/
The Spice Girls www.thespicegirls.comD20 System Reference Document http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35
Monday, October 28, 2013
Iteration 060 - How the Babylonians Count - 27 Oct 2013
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First Discussion Topic: How the Babylonians count
Second Discussion Topic: Ruining horror with humour
References and Recommendations:
Daddy I'm a Zombie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243469/
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
Monday, October 14, 2013
Iteration 058 - Imprisoned Adventures - 13 Oct 2013
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Topics: Christopher Columbus, Kender Merchants, Going to Prison
References and Recommendations:
Dinosaur Comics: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php
Josh's Minecraft Channel: http://youtube.com/spacebootone
Monday, October 7, 2013
Iteration 057 - Gastronomy Games - 6 Oct 2013
The Simulationist Podcast is recorded on Sunday evenings and uploaded Monday morning every week. Hosts Ryan Kirkby and Josh Treleaven celebrate games from all genres, plus film, television, literature, and anything else that can be simulated.
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Discussion Topic: Gastronomy Games: Why does food play the role it does in our games?
References and Recommendations:
Cookie Clicker! http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
Breaking Bad http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/
A Tribe Called Red http://atribecalledred.com/
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