I think Lloyd embodied his own comments this weekender, boring and unexcited, pacing would be nice, but you made your comment about an idea, made it quite clear you are not willing to move from it, or really discuss about it and then dragged it for 15 more minutes let alone shoving it wherever you could after the topic moved on, really not exciting and quite boring.

I feel we got it from the very first minute.

Now as far as the idea goes, I am not sure it has merit, for what it is a “gladiatorial” style game it will always be too risky for it to happen with real pilots inside and if you go RC why bother with big expensive mechs? and not something small and less expensive? of course that is what Robowars (correct name?) did and it had quite a following.

moving on AI is really uncharted territory, I am really skeptical we can create AI because frankly we ourselves do not know what “real” intelligence is, or how feelings and emotions work, an AI is a nebulous concept that is vaguely registered on the back of our brains, essentially people expect a “human” that can think faster be more connected to a clouded network and embody the worst aspects of our culture.

At the present, we have a really hard time making robots survive outside a lab, things we take for granted are not easy for them, such as spatial awareness and random data processing, or pattern recognition, making something that can actually think of itself is really really far away let alone one that can do so and “exist” in the real world, once we do so, its a big unknown question how it will behave, how was it brought up? what its canvas was? how was its education? does it have feelings? is it social? what was its purpose and why would we create it really? because AI now that it is unobtainable seems an interesting thing, but once we reach the level of sophistication to create one would we need it for something other than a scientific experiment, a curiosity? would it serve a purpose that “mindless” robots could not perform?

Now I really enjoyed the discussion about Representation and Replica, one of the most inspired discussions you had and one that could touch many things in wargaming from design, rules, background, to the models and everything else, this is what I would love to see been discussed in more depth, maybe in a designers studio or as an organised community discussion.

Closing, I hope I am not sure how many of us have got their Myth pledges and how many of those that did managed to actually go through the contents of the pledge yet, maybe it is something to ask next week.