Monday, September 25, 2006

Bored groups...

So when your a group of people, and really bored, too much time on your hands, what do you do?

Well answer is simple, you play Human Space invaders! What else would you do?

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Combat intelligence and Video Games.

-=( Yet another warning, requires 10-15 minutes of reading and some intelligence to respond )=-

So getting home from being worked over at work, (always on the toe to toe with management) Clicked on the TV to decompress at home and of course there is Ahhnold the terminator in Judgment day.

Which brings up a previous thought I had in the development of A.I. and the downfall of humanity. People say (well the paranoid schizophrenic kinda people say) That machines will prevail and humanity will be enslaved and possibly drove into near extinction.

Well military drones aircraft is completely possible and in actual practice. The world of Terminator, Matrix, and then a collection of various B grade movies puts us as in the position of answering to machines that seem to out think us and take control over us. (With current management that I have had to deal with, and typical people in power in various corporations and government, I am afraid this is completely possible)

So the base structure is, machines can not take over until they can do the complex engineering and field maintenance that humans do. Meaning hands on basic ground-pounder, brainless pre-high school manual labor that everyone hates because it is so underpaid.

A simple pair of hands and basic adjustment of equipment, taking out the trash and loading ordinance and crap into the machines to control us to start with. Not mentioning making the bullets, feeding the raw materials to do all this and the entire network and infrastructure that is maintained by people, because machines can’t physically do the work.

Management would have replaced us by now if this could be done because machines don’t need $100k of benefits to make it happy.

They don’t need Medical, dental, pensions, company picnics, you know being treated like a human instead of a machine. Which I still believe that upper management are more like machines and not human.

As far as the basic unit being able to out fight us. I think it is very possible. With game environment simulations where the machine is given the same information we are, sight, sound and crosshairs to target and shoot with. The machines can outshoot us.

They aren’t effected by adrenaline near the kill point, and as such don’t get jumpy and don’t make mistakes.

The A.I. scripts can work in a fluid manner allowing them to do a tried, tested and true method of ground combat. Pin and flank. All combat consists of Pin and flank, not wire-fu, chop-sake combat opra matrix, one Vs the nation of the machines. Its more like saving Private Ryan, get your ass kicked, pin them down, flank and execute the kill before they do the same to you.

Combat requires team work. Machines are designed for team work, they lack the confusion of fog or war like humans deal with, (thus the U.S. integration of wireless combat PDA with real-time unit placements) to help reduce Fog of war from our side while increasing it to the other side.

*Term* “Fog of war” is not a fog, smoke screen or visual impairment, Fog of war is situational awareness, knowing what is around the corner, knowing that the movement two blocks down is your guys or their guys. Friendly fire is usually caused by Fog of war, getting confused in a live fire situation and hitting the wrong unit (person, tank, etc.) by firing on something thinking it is the enemy when it is actually your guys. That is Fog of war, for those who are unfamiliar with combat terms.

They are designed for situational awareness when dealing with designed tasks. We are a jack of all trade design. We can sweep floors of the building where we design stealth planes that delivers the nukes that can glass over a section of desert that contains the enemy that threatens us. Along with every support role along this food chain with this single human body design.

Robots/Machines/A.I.’s deal specifically for the task they are designed. One unit that delivers crap from one side of a room to another can not be trained to fly the plane that requires being fueled and loaded with the armament to glass over the desert site that contains the threat against their existence. It requires a separate design for every task. We need a single design.

Though a plane that is supported by others can outfight the humans general purpose factor, in that they can deal with G’s that black us out or kill us. So in a dog fight, it is possible for a drone unit to take out a human unit because the human unit can not physically compete with the drone unit’s abilities. However after the fight that drone is gone without outside support, no fuel, not weapons, no maintenance, etc.

Ground combat is more of a closer call. Though if designed and had the ability of human movement, the machine squad may be able to take a human squad.

In a simulation where human players go up against A.I. players, when the A.I. is a real A.I. with real tactical abilities, not some cheap knock off of a substandard game, humans will tend to get their asses handed to them if they are not super aggressive.

I can tell you from personal experience, those who dig in, get over run. You have to be fluid enough to not get flanked. However you can’t flank if your pinned down. Humans also have an issue with fear. You dig in to save your ass because your getting flanked. So this circle of combat tends to eliminate those who are worried about their own butts against those who focus on elimination of others.

Germans had better equipment then the allies. They had the choice of first placement, and yes they cause serious casualties, however because they where dug in, we pinned them, flanked them and well. The world does not speak German.

Technically as long as they where on the offensive, they where taking real-estate, taking names and kicking ass. When they stopped and went on the defensive, they where eliminated.

A.I.’s set for “easy” on games tend to play the defensive role. Those on “Hard setting are on the offensive role and are aggressive.

A.I.’s ramped up to hyper offensive mode is going to also break humans on the psychological level. We will be pissing ourselves hiding in a trench because they will show aggression that almost no human, that does not have some serious psychological issues, is not capable of showing (in real life, not video games.) Hardened units when faced against superior aggression will tend to withdraw into a defensive stance and draw the aggression to a choke point where they can not get flanked. If they are in the open they tend to get eliminated.

The other part of this equation is air support. (Which is being flanked on a 3-D level, instead of a 2-D ground plane level)

So back to the argument. Machines Vs Humans. We are, in fact, for the purpose of challenging ourselves in the name of entertainment, developing superior combat A.I. capable of besting us in a combat situation. A.I.’s for air combat, A.I.’s for tank combat, A.I.’s for troop, and urban combat, along with A.I’s for naval combat, along with A.I.’s for driving, racing, etc.

We are shelling out $50+ a person for a copy of this latest A.I. in a multi Billion dollar industry called Videogames. Video game developers and their high end programmers are most certainly surpassing military black-hole, think-tank wet dreams.

Under the radar, in the name of video games. No one pays attention for the same reason why old school near retirement persons in media corporations still don’t provide the video game industry with respect, recognition, and at times with down-right contempt stating that it is a colossal waste of a nations time and should be outlawed.

The military has just scratched the surface of how much of an impact this is really going to change everything in the world of combat and military superiority.

Take the creative side out of it and strip it down for military development and it doesn’t work so well. Because they are stripping out the creativity. If DARPA was to simply fund some talented game developers, they would have the prized machine Grail of A.I. while earning back their money instead of flushing it down the toilet. They simply remove the A.I. out of the game, and apply it to drone planes, tanks, ships, and other bigger equipment.

And That, my friends, would be the start of the machine take over of humanity. Management however is keeping humanity very safe from the possibilities of this from ever happening because of incompetents, personal ego, and all those other human trates.

I sleep very well at night knowing Halo-3 is in development and Military structures are incompetent enough that we have people marching on the white house because they don’t understand Terrorist not only have no problem of killing innocent children, that the left wing mistakenly think, we are targeting.

If given the choice the terrorist extremist would kill every left wing person on the face of the earth, because they (left wing) are the ones that need to go first according to the psychopath terrorist agenda. Then they go after the innocent civilian population, and of course children of the infidels.

Machines would be simple. Eliminate everything not machine, no politics, no terrorism, just systematic automatic elimination until the job is done.

If the Videogames A.I. ran Germany and Japan. They would have completed the war before the U.S. could get up to speed and respond to world war II.

Thank god for humans hu?

I’m thinking Machines taking over will never happen, though Game A.I.’s are capable of taking over the higher functions of military applications and directing us humans in times of war. Luckily the U.S. is the powerhouse of this “possible” application of A.I. deployment, and not nations such as Iran, Vietnam, and various others who would pose a threat to free-willed humanity.

Integrating Game combat A.I. into our combat PDA systems may advance our abilities beyond the militaries understanding of elimination of Fog of war and tactical operations.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Fiat Vs Commodity Cash..

-=(Warning)=- My Blogs are more like white papers then minute Blogs. Don’t enter unless you got at least ten to twenty minutes to read and some education to comprehend


Fiat Vs Commodity cash.

For some of you, understanding that fiat money is the blight of society.
For those wondering if I’m talking about Italian cars,.. Fiat money is money that has designated value because it is agreed upon by the institutional entity issuing it and the people who use it.

Quick example. Paper money. It takes the same resources to make a $10 dollar bill as it does to make a $1000 dollar bill. It is only worth ten dollars because the US treasury sez it does, and the thousand dollar bill represents its value because the treasure sez it does, not because they used a thousand dollars worth of paper in it.

Commodity money is money that is back by or made of commodity, such as gold coins. The coin is worth what it is because it is made from actual gold which has a value to it.
A $20 dollar gold coin is much smaller then a $500 dollar gold coin. That is commodity money.

Ok, now for the psychotic rant and a fix.

The blight of society is, all fiat money will eventually reach a value of zero. And as a world wide fiat society we are well on our way.

As a kid finding a dime in the street (yah, I’m old) meant a bag of candy, as in, a whole small bag of candy not just a couple candy bars. I could go to the nickel and dime store (They where called that because most things where under a dime.) and get a pretty nice toy, (which if I still had, would be a collector item worth hundreds of dollars.)

The candy machines with bubblegum and such where a penny for a big jawbreaker.

Now because the fiat money gets devalued over time, now 5 dollars almost make that same bag of candy.
Meaning that the fiat money, U.S. dollar, has devalued by almost 500% since I was 5 years old.
So unless your money is making interest to match or exceed this rate your retirement isn’t going to mean crap and you will be working through your retirement because you won’t be able to afford the basics.

The founding fathers of our nation knew the hazards of this and as such designed the U.S. to be a commodity country. So that the money you earned as a boy would have the same value when you retired at 60. Or in their case when you where 50.

Growth is slower with a commodity structure; however it is stable and doesn’t collapse like during the great depression. The other problem is the U.S. was never designed to be a debited nation our forefathers would be very upset with us right now.

We didn’t have a national debit until World War II, then it was like a teen with a charge card, and now our children are going to be corporate slaves to foreign nations because our generation could not control their spending. That is pissing me off to no end.

This really, really pisses me off, to know no matter what I do, unless I have 500% above what it takes the average person to live on, I won’t be retiring because the devaluation of the U.S. dollar is increasing in an exponential rate.

As the saying goes. The good news is, you’ll be a millionaire! The bad news is, so will everyone else. (This is really a true statement if you make 40k a year, in 25 years you have made a million dollars!) Meaning, you need to be a Billionaire to be what we think a millionaire is, and a millionaire will be what we currently think someone bordering on poverty is 40 years from now.

The problem: The U.S. was a commodity nation, when the world global market came to be, when everyone else was fiat, they coveted the U.S. dollar because it was a commodity and actually worth something. The other nations where sucking out our gold supplies from our nation as they cashed in the dollars.

So we stepped it down, to silver, and then dropped it all together in the interest of saving our gold and silver reserves.

So in the end we decided to screw over our future generations for the sake being in line with all the other unstable nations of the world. (As in financially unstable.)

The answer (Can’t bitch about something unless I can give a fix for it.)
(You can go to sleep now, unless you’re a Micro/Macro economics major)

Commodity/Time-fiat money:

So we would still be circulating the paper money that is only worth the paper and ink that is printed on however it is backed by commodity like in our gold standard days,
HOWEVER it would only be considered commodity money for the Citizens. So a dollar today would be a worth a dollar 40 years from now and not $0.008.

The issue of other nations draining our gold reserve would be rendered mute by the fact that the commodity (gold) would be held in trust only for the nation’s citizens. So if other nations grabbed our money it would be considered a fiat cash for our goods and services to them. They could not cash it out and take our gold supplies overseas it would only be good in the U.S. boarders, so they would need to come back and spend it here, or trade it for products/services. otherwise it is useless outside of our boarders. (though worth a bunch to foreign nations as it is inflation proof to them for our stuff.)

The other problem of others coming into our boarders and cashing the fiat for the commodity backing, that would also be rendered mute by the fact that the gold reserves are being held in trust. Meaning it is locked up. So the gold is there but can not be cashed out as it stays in our reserve to represent the money printed.

Simply having the Gold in the amount that is issued by the national reserves means it doesn’t devalue and doesn’t go through the massive inflation/deflation swings that causes grandma to sell her house that she purchased for $25k, because the taxes are now being levied for a house worth $500k with her fixed income of $28-30k (that was what she was making when she retired some 30+ years ago.)

Granted there isn’t near the same amount of money floating around, but then our $1 would be the equivalent to $500 so products would cost much, much less. A loaf of bread would still be a nickel. So we wouldn’t need such a large amount of cash floating around for people to function.

Now for the equalizer: Time.
Commodity alone doesn’t fix things. The other part of my money equation is that the money is also linked to time, not just commodity. That is a national average of time tables would be linked to the money. Meaning if it took a person an average of 5 minutes to make a loaf of bread (considering bread is done in batches and when all the loafs are done the average is 5 minutes per loaf.) then it would be tied into the cost to prevent price gouging (you know like with oil prices where they are making double digit profits when the gas goes up, suggesting the price never needed to go up or they wouldn’t be making such disproportionate profits.)

So:
1 hour basic unskilled labor would be equal to 1 CT (Commodity-Time) dollar/hour (Basic labor not requiring an education or any skill, sweeping, picking berries, etc.)

1 hour of basic labor = 2 CT Dollars/hour, (labor requiring pre-high school education, such as being able to read, but still unskilled labor anyone can do in their sleep.)

1 hour of Standard labor =3 CT dollars/hour (High school education, reading writing, basic math perhaps, some thinking required.)

1 hour of semi-skilled labor=4 CT dollars/hour (minor collage or apprentice for skilled labor positions.)

1 hour of skilled labor=5 CT dollars an hour (Collage degree required, or skill such as journeyman level classification jobs with technical skill requirements, any skilled trade skills)

So with money being tied into this structure, all regulated services such as medical field, communications or anything else regulated by society would be within reach of even the unskilled section of society, so those who don’t want to work “much” could still afford healthcare because doctors can’t charge way beyond reasonable levels. (in today’s structures even middle income people can not afford medical without insurance because it would break them or strip them of all assets including the house they live in.)

Everyone could afford education if they wanted it. And those in the skilled positions could afford the much nicer things in life such as having nice houses, decent cars etc. So they are not capped at just above poverty like with communist money markets, like with old pre-collapse Russia

Of course things that have no designated hour time/set, such as unregulated services, artists, implementing new technology, can charge more to recover costs and fund further development. So it is possible form someone to charge 6+ CT dollars/hour as agreed upon by all parties involved. Such as painting a tricked out car for example, something that is personal skill that others can't be taught because of needed skill and raw talent.

Foreign trade would be converted value by estimating what the value to creat such an object would be in our boarder. (Cars: Basic cars, luxury cars, commercial vehicles, boats planes, Electronics, furniture, toys, etc.) We can calulate what their dollar is worth to ours and go accordingly.

So things in foreign lands would be comparable to what they pay for things. If it cost $200,000 yen for a car in Japan, our trade value to them would be about the same, as we always update the exchange rate. However cars coming into the Nation would still only cost us $500 bucks for a new car. Just because they have unreasonable inflation doesn’t mean we would. It would still hold the same value as it did 35 years ago. so years down the road when it costs $300,00Yen for the same type of car in Japan, we still only pay $500 for the same car. (starting to see the picture here?)

So global markets would mean nothing to us as it all costs the same inside of the U.S. the only reason why it means so much now is we are fiat cash, they are fiat cash and when we swing or they swing in value it kills us or kills them as to cost of items go way up or way down.

So something that 35 years ago cost 1 month of wages would still cost the U.S. citizen 1 month of wages instead of one year to three years worth of inflated wages. I.e. Cars being the current $35k+ instead of $500 under this structure.

The stable structure would probably lead other nations to follow suit. Families could still afford to live a quality of life on a single income, and those who work full time could easily afford basic heal needs and education. So we keep freetrade intact without having to be communistis in nature to save our economy and allow everyone a piece of the pie. Those who drive to be super rich can still achive this, markets expand and comeate/grow/advance unlike the communistic nature which kills open markets and shifts power to a small group instead of the nation at hand.

This system would almost wipe out the government's control over the nation finantualy so they would never go for something like this.

We would continue to accumulate gold silver to expand our reserves to help deal with increasing population.

I would suggest to start off with one CT Dollar is worth 1/10th of a troy ounce of gold and freeze it at that. That is the current worth of one hour of typical average income for lower-middle income to have food on the table and heat in the house in todays standard. of course this structure would also lock in the value of gold. (or the commodity in question being used)
So 1/10th of a troy ounce is woth 1 CT dollar now, and still worth 1 CT dollar 150 years from now. Though with advancement in technology, items would only get cheaper as we could produce more with the same ammount of time and effort.

The only inflation of value would be gold, if we increased the value, such as setting 1 CT attached to 1/15th of a troy ounce instead of 1/10th.
Then the value of gold went up, however a car would still cost us $500 CT dollars.(or actualy maybe only $420-300 CT Dollars because we can now make 1.6 cars with the effort it used to take to make 1 car.)

So retierment is still grand and medical and food is still for everyone. So it all ends in, Do you want to work. Those gainfully employed would indeed be gainful in their employment. Those wanting to be bums would still be pennyless bums. There is no fixing lack of effort in a human.
If you don't want to work or do anything, you still have the freedom to starve if that is what you really want to do.

OK Folks those armed with shotguns, now is you turn to shoot this full of holes. I don’t have my full structure down but hopefully enough to flesh out the concept.

Monday, September 18, 2006

Psyber's Psychosis


Welcome To my Psychosis, which of course consists of uber brain damaging deconstruction of items people have no business thinking about. (Thinking outside of the brain-box)

A bit more involved in the rants, a bit more scientific in observation, and downright psychotic in thought.

Try and keep up and two word lines tend to be frowned upon. Enjoy

-Psyber Wolf