[FRIAM] alternative response

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Nicholas Thompson

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Clark University

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 4:37 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] alternative response

 

 

Marcus wrote:

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If I were to try to write a set of bots to reproduce FRIAM conversations, I’d probably do it with an agent-based approach, and dump my mental model of each person into a program, and then run the programs together, like a sort of core-war game.   

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

 

I think the dynamics of this game would be predictable sometimes, and other times it would have long transients.  Other times idiosyncratic word associations would redirect the conversation in unexpected directions. 

 

To some (many?) that might be what our collective "rattling on" looks/sounds like.  Especially with some of the overt attempts for various members to mind-read others.   We might name them (similar to Core War strategies) names like TinMan, StrawMan, Imp(uter),  StoneMan, ScissorMan, ScatterShot, etc. 

Maybe Nick can adapt his "MOTHA" (my way or the highway) strategy from the iterated prisoner's dilemma (circa 2004?) into CoreWar .

Or maybe Tom Ray's Tierra <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)>  might be a better model?

- Steve

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