It strikes me as amusing that Nomograms are called alignment charts.
I am thinking of how Brandon Sanderson describes dynamic characters. He gives a great deal of emphasis to the measurable aspects of a character (sorry if that's not the lecture with the bar graphs, I didn't feel like listening to him for two hours to find the clip again). This intersects with the classic roleplaying practice of bidimensional classifiers.
If I try to smash these ideas together: it would be like making a nomegram with "class", "Race", the two alignment factors, the six linear attributes as input dimensions. Then the characters names all appear on a final line wherever their combination of linear factors lie.
Imagine doing this for everyone in a TTRPG, giving every character a unique color, and making it the thing used to explain the story. I mean including the named NPCs. It feels like a baffling tapestry in my head. How about yours?
what unique trait of a creature on earth has the highest chance of existing on any alien life out there? for both an aquatic and land lifeform
if some analog horror style incident (be that something like a creature, infection, alternate dimension, etc) were to occur and society stabilized around it, how long would it take for it to be regularly exploited for some sort of benefit, if ever?
if/when some sort of nerve gear style thing were to/comes to exist, become a consumer product, and have some sort of open source world hub application made for it, what would the first high quality world be? and why?
Realized that recently, I've become slightly more aware of my emotions. My periodic check-ins with myself seem to be paying off somewhat. Specifically, I am more aware of when I am mildly upset. I still seem to have my typical reaction, though, which is to just ignore it.
Which makes it all the funnier when I check in again and get confused as to why I am upset, I srop whatever I am doing, and have to reverse-engineer the emotion and flip through my brain like a rolodex until I figure it out (again). Like a single-threaded computer pausing to go through a lookup table.
Unrelated, but I feel like the majority is going about the creation of AI sort of wrong. Neural models are great, but they aren't really native to the way computer hardware works. Very inefficient.
I wonder if we could use a more streamlined approach that still incorporates NNs to a limited extent, but augments their abilities with tools native to the hardware. Maybe some different way to categorize and store data, too, one that isn't so bloated like our current models. After all, brains have structures already built into them from the genetic code of the organism. There are tools there so the brain doesn't have to start from scratch. Maybe we could do the same for AI. Maybe in a way that allows the AI to actually be an AI and not a static model that is queried and then remains idle until the next query.
i’d love to be able to be a flying ghost whenever and explore dangerous areas like faulty caves, middle of wild forests and tall mountains because being able to explore anywhere sounds so cool because of what might be out there
