ethics rawk - 10:41 a.m. 02.25.2005
�����Today was a special day in Ethics. Today was a day when Danny neither shuts up, nor backs down. As Jes put it, every day that I'm with her.
�����So, the class starts with some sort of discussion about music, which I take a part of. Unimportant, but whenever I get started talking in a class, it's over. I don't stop.
�����The primary problem with AI recognizing human speech is their lack of real world understanding, and ambiguity in speech. Our professor's example is "Johnny hit the boy with a broken leg". He proceeds to explain that either Johnny or the boy who was hit can be the one with a broken leg. To which I quickly chime in, "OR, Johnny simply hit the boy.... with a broken leg." Assorted ughs and laughs.
�����One guy is doing a paper on video games. Specifically, he's doing a paper on why video games are bad. Apparently, when doing an action in a video game, your brain synapses fire as if you were actually doing the action. Think mental training in basketball, as opposed to physical training - picturing the action. My argument that this isn't behavioral training; it's physical training; training to make the motion, not training to want to do it.
�����"Look, dude. If this were true, I swear to god I'd know level three magic already." Then, to my professor, "It is ok if I write my paper directly contrary to Tom's? Like, I don't mean: He says video games are bad; I say video games are good. I was thinking more like: He says video games are bad. I say Tom is a dumbass."
�����Finally, we somehow get to talking about anime, how feminine characters and good characters are drawn with larger faces and eyes. One girl explains; one petite, has-never-spoken-before girl, "Yea, and evil characters usually look more mature, and have narrower slantier eyes. That's why us anime fan girls lust for them so much."
�����I just bust up laughing in the middle of class. No one else at all. So, of course, everyone turns to look at me.
�����"What?! Did you guys not just hear that?"
�����Yes, I too have a class on ethics. I'm all philosophy-like, like Jessie. My class, however, talks about anime, porn, and video games. Comp Sci majors are superior stock.
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