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) I have a crappy website on error691.com which I haven't touched for about six months and it isn't even finished! I think I should delete it to save Grimmus some hard drive space. 
What do you mean, clones, when you can have the original?pjknibbs wrote:I'm surrounded by Helge clones! Aaaarggh!
If you're writing in english, you'll have less of a problem to find a publisher; the US/UK market is comparatively huge. In germany, though, SF literature currently is in it's greatest crisis since it's inception. If you don't make it bestseller, twice or more, you can't live off it. And currently, there are only 2, or 5 at the most, german SF authors who can pull this stunt.Jericho wrote: regarding your comment on it being hard to publish SF these days, is that because you feel there is so much utter crap being published? (Which I do)
Or that you think there is a lack of publishers for SF?
That's the spirit - that's why we started writing in the first place, isn't it? To tell a tale, and have it carry ourselves away. Upon becoming a pro, things start to look differently, tho, and one will find out that writing is not only the fun it used to be. It's work, hard work, and it can and _will_ drive one through ups and downs like on a roller coaster. And It's hard work, very hard, dedicated work.Jericho wrote: Even if I never send it to an editor or publisher I will be happy when it is finished.
there have been some proposed theories that it just might be impossible for a machine to realise itself, that is recurse to a level of creating a concept of "mind". i believe i had found one on the comp.ai.genetic newsgroup once.Thalass wrote: But I don't belive that true AI will come about from programming. Well, AI maybe. But ALife is a different story. heh
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.htmlHelgeK wrote: The real fun begins at the point where the AI will do it's own research on self-improvement...
Helge
Well, what's that conciousness thing anyway, and why would a true AGI need it?xao wrote: there have been some proposed theories that it just might be impossible for a machine to realise itself, that is recurse to a level of creating a concept of "mind". i believe i had found one on the comp.ai.genetic newsgroup once.
At least we know now where all the hair is going. It's a well known fact that there is only a finite amount of hair in the universe, so the longer Helge, Grimm et al grow theirs, the shorter and shorter (and nonexistant) mine gets. I sure some of your know how it is.pjknibbs wrote:I'm surrounded by Helge clones! Aaaarggh!Apothos wrote:Hmm...fair enough;
i'm this big ugly mofo:
Iron Orchid wrote:
At least we know now where all the hair is going. It's a well known fact that there is only a finite amount of hair in the universe, so the longer Helge, Grimm et al grow theirs, the shorter and shorter (and nonexistant) mine gets. I sure some of your know how it is.
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