Evening Reading
I played Minecraft for about three hours this week and I found myself enjoying the quest for better ore for better items, but eventually grew bored. There just isn't enough "game" in there yet for me to enjoy. I completely understand why people love it for the multiplayer and creation mode, but I hope Notch makes it more of a game.
I came to the conclusion that if Minecraft and Nethack could be combined into some sort of dungeon-crawling, craft-your-items-from the-world-around-you, RPG-type game... well, I would play that game forever and ever.
Gaming News o'the Day
- NBA 2K11 review.
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- Dave Perry's Gaikai going online in December.
- League of Legends wins big at GDC Online.
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locater16
replyEveryone in the world has their own infinite factory, and it works by itself to produce whatever they want. The only thing they don't have is someone to design a product the factory can make, which something had and time consuming to do. But whenever someone makes a design, everyone everywhere automatically has that design, for free. So, how do we get people to make those designs in the first place? Few are going to pay someone to make a design, because there's little way of knowing if it's any good before it's finished. Few are going to pay for a good design after it's finished, because they already have it for free.
A paradox then, how is it solved?-
Have them make the design then kill anyone who goes and makes it for free.
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The people who love to design are going to design regardless of if they are getting paid or not.
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Inventors of successful inventions are "paid" via fame, and oral sex. Other types of sex too, probably. Money is meaningless in such a world, so you have to look at other systems of reward.
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^^^To be a top notch designer would be equivalent to being Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp. Your face would be everywhere – advertisements, billboards, commercials
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Even if everyone has an infinitely producing factory and all the items are made available, you will need advertisements to show people how the product is used and why they would want it.
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What? You make the ads in your infinite factory. Currency has 0 use in a world where anybody can make anything.
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I would just design a factory that generates artificial intelligence which designs top-notch designs automatically (designs that include self improvement). It's so well designed that the technology generated from these automatic processes will roughly double every 6 months to a year in terms of speed, efficiency, and costs. Within a few years it reaches singularity AND OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.
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I think this is flawed. 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. You can have all the good ideas in the world, but it takes work to see the product. I understand what you're saying, if it pertains to copyright law, but otherwise I would have to disagree. Workers are supposed to own the rights of production. Anyone can own the rights to inception :)
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Many designers would work purely for the joy of it. Other designers with a proven track record might be in it for the celebrity and the associated social favors that would bring from people who want to be around fame. I think you would also have exchanges of personalized artistic works (paintings, songs, films, etc.) or personal favors (control of another person's time would be invaluable) for the promise of a more practical design to address a personal need or desire (a necessary drug for a condition you have, a well-trained animal, maybe you just want a bigger TV).
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design obfuscated devices that kill people closeby when they are assembled but look like they do something else and are decribed as doing something else and don't build any; other people will build them and kill themselves thus eliminating competition and making people more wary about building shit they dont understand.
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