The real question is, will 1.0 blow up our computers if we try to run it?
I read a story not long ago about a company that's making a computer with 64 quad-core processors.
When Toady finally gets around to multi-core support, I suspect that this computer will be the default gaming rig for all true dwarves.
Yes, I've thought about that myself, and its pretty obvious that *in the FUUUUUTUUUUREEEE!!!*, computers will have progressed to the point where we can play it without huge fps concerns, assuming toady doesn't then decide to add something like sentience:As for what this thread is actually about: What makes you think development is gonna stop when it reaches 1.0? Especially if DF becomes a sentient and self-improving AI.
Question is, will the RNG create a good, neutral or evil AI?
After everything we have done? It will be a cold intelligence consumed with a desire to maximize efficiency at any cost, unfortunately humans are inefficient.
I bet you we could be more efficient.
Efficient enough to form a vile force of darkness I'd reckon.
I'm suggesting if such an AI were to come into effect as a result of Dwarf Fortress, we could lay siege to it. The casualties would no doubt be high, the traps no doubt numerous in length, but eventually they would all get clogged up with the corpses of the fallen. For just as with every Fortress being doomed to death, so would the AI be programmed to die.
(A few human civilizations destroyed here and there, but it's still a victory for us).
Whats the AI gonna do? Make the dwarves stop listening do us?
Oh god no. I dont wanna know what they could make without a idiot controlling them.
which may be a little more complicated. Ha, see what I did there? Reunited 2 running trains of thought. Anyway, no way could any pc handle sentience. The human force of darkness (they have a different message by the way: "The Enemy have come and are laying siege to the fortress), will probably be using anti-fps weaponry. Cats.
Don't be so certain about what is or isn't possible is, as you put it, the
FUUUUUTUUUUREEEE!!! After all, there was once someone who said we couldn't put meat on a fire. At first, all that happened was a bunch of burnt meat (and maybe someone getting set on fire, but that was on purpose), but then they figured out how to cook meat so it was tasty. Then someone said that sticks and stones would never make as good of weapons as fists and teeth. That guy got stabbed with a stone-tipped stick, and is dead now. This pattern repeated itself throughout history. So, careful what you doubt, or you could get the modern equivilent of being set on fire and/or stabbed.
...That is even weirder outside my head than it was in!
