Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...
In the 1980s, Don Swanson proposed the concept of “undiscovered public knowledge,” and published several examples in which two disparate literatures (i.e., sets of articles hav...
Assume a coevolutionary algorithm capable of storing and utilizing all phenotypes discovered during its operation, for as long as it operates on a problem; that is, assume an algo...
Google’s project to digitize five of the world's greatest libraries will dramatically extend their search engine reach in the future. Current search-engine philosophy, which...
Abstract. We distill Penrose’s argument against the “artificial intelligence premiss”, and analyze its logical alternatives. We then clarify the different positions one can...