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Heiankyo Alien 3671

Heiankyo Alien was resurrected for a 2017 release on Steam by Mindware, the same developer that put out Cosmic Cavern 3671 and Space Mouse, remakes of some extremely early Japanese PC games. Though it includes a port of the original arcade game (complete with a number of customizable tweaks, including adjusting the score values), the big drawn is Heiankyo Alien 3671, a complete reimagining in the style of Pac-Man Championship Edition. Like Namco’s title, it takes the basic mechanics of Heiankyo Alien and reworks into it a fast-paced, scoring focused game, where you get five minutes and unlimited lives to score as points as possible.

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Oliver Kornetzke: "What if the future of computation isn’t smaller chips, but engineered brains?

...Today’s models cannot restructure themselves. They cannot reroute their own connections. They do not grow new modules in response to new tasks. They do not forget selectively or regulate their own learning rates."

From 'Partnering with Nature: Toward an Intelligence Rooted in Symbiosis', by Oliver Kornetzke

https://substack.com/@oliverkornetzke/note/p-169185442

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From All Systems Red by Martha Wells:

It's wrong to think of a construct as half 'bot half human. It makes us sound like the halves are discrete, like, the 'bot half should want to obey orders and do its job while the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do.

Most of the time we're like the second umpire, thinking that we’re seeing the world the way it really is and “calling ’em as they are.” That umpire is what philosophers and social psychologists call a “naive realist.” He believes that the senses provide us with a direct, unmediated understanding of the world. But in fact, our construal of the nature and meaning of events is massively dependent on stored schemas and the inferential processes they initiate and guide.

We do partially recognize this fact in everyday life and realize that, like the first umpire, we really just “call ’em as we see ’em.” At least we see that’s true for other people. We tend to think, “I’m seeing the world as it is, and your different view is due to poor eyesight, muddled thinking, or self-interested motives!”

The third umpire thinks, “They ain’t nothin’ till I call ’em.” All “reality” is merely an arbitrary construal of the world. This view has a long history. Right now its advocates tend to call themselves “postmodernists” or “deconstructionists.” Many people answering to these labels endorse the idea that the world is a “text” and no reading of it can be held to be any more accurate than any other.''