- The Bold Kobold
- Aug 11, 2014
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Bold to the point of certain death.
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Wooden robot must learn to trust Sensei!
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Dec 27, 2014 03:44
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- Adbot
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Apr 23, 2024 15:29
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- JosephWongKS
- Apr 4, 2009
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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Your robot becomes still in your hands. You decide to teach rhim that the word for this state is…
1. "Peace."
2. "Trust."
3. "Helplessness."
4. "Weakness."
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"Trust," Killall repeats back as you set rhim on the ground. You have taught rhim to have a little faith that when a human does something rhe doesn't understand, things will turn out well.
(+Empathy)
(+Military)
By now, it is near midnight, and you have another busy day ahead of improving Killall. You get ready for bed, leaving Killall plugged into the wall with your cell phone charger.
"Stay there," you tell rhim.
Killall obediently stays very still — so still that, while you are drifting off to sleep, you glance down at Killall just to make sure rer code didn't crash.
But rhe is still there, looking up at you adoringly, and you think rhe will probably remain like that all night.
CHAPTER TWO - MACHINE, LEARNING
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The next day, you take Killall to the Stanford hacker space, which has more tools for electronics than the fabrication shop. None of the other students are around in the morning on a Sunday but the long stainless steel workbenches are littered with their strange, half-finished projects: a half-disassembled Furby, a potato gun, a circuit board connected to a houseplant.
"Sorry, Killall, but I'm going to have to power you down for a moment," you say. "We're going to switch you to a new power source."
"Strong?" Killall asks.
"Yes, you'll be much stronger," you assure Killall.
"Okay," Killall says.
You fiddle with the smartphone lodged in Killall's back, exit the application that is Killall's mind, and power it down.
What will you use for a power source?
1. A car battery. It's big and bulky but also inexpensive and locally made.
2. A motorcycle battery: not quite as bulky nor as powerful as the car battery.
3. A biodiesel engine. Good for the environment, and everybody likes the smell of French fries.
4. Cell phone batteries made in China: lightweight and cheap while providing reasonable power. Clearly the best choice for a dexterous robot.
Stats posted:
Year: 2019
24-year-old Barry Tezuka
Humanity: 58%
Gender: Male
Fame: 0 (Who?)
Wealth: 0 (Broke)
Romance: none
Killall
Autonomy: 4 (Buggy)
Military: 12 (Stable)
Empathy: 4 (Buggy)
Grace: 6 (In Beta)
Material: Wood
Head: Ring of cameras
Mobility: Eight legs
Hands: ALL OF THEM
Engine: ?
Relationships
Professor Ziegler: 74% (Great)
Elly: 52% (Good)
Josh: 54% (Good)
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Achievements Unlocked posted:
Gadgeteer: Made Professor Ziegler reminisce about the Chief. (5 points)
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Dec 27, 2014 03:45
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- Lord Cyrahzax
- Oct 11, 2012
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A phone battery for every limb!
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Dec 27, 2014 03:50
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- Pompadour Diamond
- Mar 21, 2013
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Biodiesel Engine. Just because Killall has military purposes including possible wholesale slaughter doesn't mean rhe can't be environmentally friendly at the same time.
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Dec 27, 2014 03:51
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- VictualSquid
- Feb 29, 2012
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Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
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If we let the bot use car batteries will the bot learn to eat cars for nourishment?
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Dec 27, 2014 04:08
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- JosephWongKS
- Apr 4, 2009
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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What will you use for a power source?
1. A car battery. It's big and bulky but also inexpensive and locally made.
2. A motorcycle battery: not quite as bulky nor as powerful as the car battery.
3. A biodiesel engine. Good for the environment, and everybody likes the smell of French fries.
4. Cell phone batteries made in China: lightweight and cheap while providing reasonable power. Clearly the best choice for a dexterous robot.
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You're more environmentally and socially conscious than most inventors, ready to sacrifice some elegance in the name of saving the planet. You have your buckets full of leftover grease from nearby fast food restaurants all ready to go. People near Killall will find rer smell of McDonald's French fries strangely comforting.
(++Empathy)
(+2 Humanity)
You'll need a lot of motors to be able to power your full robot — in addition to the motors rhe needs when rhe crawls and the motors to power rer Inspector Gadget arms, rhe also needs motors for moving rer head and eyes. But after speccing out the power available to you, you can still splurge by adding extra motors in one place. What will it be?
1. Extra degrees of freedom in the face for realistic facial expressions.
2. In Killall's Inspector Gadget arms for fine manipulation.
3. I would prefer to save the power for Killall's mind.
Stats posted:
Year: 2019
24-year-old Barry Tezuka
Humanity: 60%
Gender: Male
Fame: 0 (Who?)
Wealth: 0 (Broke)
Romance: none
Killall
Autonomy: 4 (Buggy)
Military: 12 (Stable)
Empathy: 6 (In Beta)
Grace: 6 (In Beta)
Material: Wood
Head: Ring of cameras
Mobility: Eight legs
Hands: ALL OF THEM
Engine: Biodiesel
Relationships
Professor Ziegler: 74% (Great)
Elly: 52% (Good)
Josh: 54% (Good)
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Achievements Unlocked posted:
Gadgeteer: Made Professor Ziegler reminisce about the Chief. (5 points)
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Dec 27, 2014 06:01
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- Pompadour Diamond
- Mar 21, 2013
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The face. Not only would rhe have better facial expressions, but wouldn't rhe be better able to manipulate the cameras that compose rer face as well?
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Dec 27, 2014 06:25
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- GenderSelectScreen
- Mar 7, 2010
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I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
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College Slice
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It needs to fine tune it's killing potential. Mind will give the best course of action for it's limbs.
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Dec 27, 2014 08:13
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- Ghostwoods
- May 9, 2013
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Say "Cheese!"
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power brain.
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Dec 27, 2014 12:31
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- VictualSquid
- Feb 29, 2012
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Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
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Crush your enemies with the power of your mind.
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Dec 27, 2014 13:13
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- sullat
- Jan 9, 2012
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Hands. We'll do the thinking around here. And maybe the emoting. If we can spare the time.
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Dec 27, 2014 15:03
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- Theantero
- Nov 6, 2011
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...We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you....
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Hands.
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Dec 27, 2014 16:37
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- JosephWongKS
- Apr 4, 2009
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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But after speccing out the power available to you, you can still splurge by adding extra motors in one place. What will it be?
1. Extra degrees of freedom in the face for realistic facial expressions.
2. In Killall's Inspector Gadget arms for fine manipulation.
3. I would prefer to save the power for Killall's mind.
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You decide not to add any more motors to Killall. The extra power could be used to overclock Killall's multicore CPUs instead.
(+++Autonomy)
You suppose you could call Killall…"hotheaded." (Sorry.)
You hold down the power on Killall's back and rhe boots to life again.
"Good morning," you tell Killall.
"Good morning," Killall says, imitating you.
Having completed Killall's initial test run, what will you do now? Now would be a good time to show Killall to Josh, to see whether he's interested in funding rer further development.
1. I should show the robot to Josh.
2. I should fix the little things I noticed during the test before I forget.
3. I should probably get a new phone in case Mom wants to call tonight.
Stats posted:
Year: 2019
24-year-old Barry Tezuka
Humanity: 60%
Gender: Male
Fame: 0 (Who?)
Wealth: 0 (Broke)
Romance: none
Killall
Autonomy: 7 (In Beta)
Military: 12 (Stable)
Empathy: 6 (In Beta)
Grace: 6 (In Beta)
Material: Wood
Head: Ring of cameras
Mobility: Eight legs
Hands: ALL OF THEM
Engine: Biodiesel
Relationships
Professor Ziegler: 74% (Great)
Elly: 52% (Good)
Josh: 54% (Good)
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Achievements Unlocked posted:
Gadgeteer: Made Professor Ziegler reminisce about the Chief. (5 points)
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Dec 27, 2014 17:38
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- JosephWongKS
- Apr 4, 2009
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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 Art Contest
Make a drawing of Killall, our wooden, eight-legged, multi-armed, panoptic, biodiesel-engine, three foot tall robot, and post it in this thread by 4 January 2014. The best drawing (as selected by me) will win its artist goon:
(a) a forums upgrade of the goon's choice; or
(b) [requires said goon to have a Steam account] a copy of Choice of Robot and any other two "Choice of" games available on Steam.
JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Dec 27, 2014
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Dec 27, 2014 17:45
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- Pompadour Diamond
- Mar 21, 2013
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New Phone. You never know when and why a mother might call.
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Dec 27, 2014 19:49
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- The Bold Kobold
- Aug 11, 2014
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Bold to the point of certain death.
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Debugging. Robot more important than other people.
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Dec 27, 2014 19:56
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- GenderSelectScreen
- Mar 7, 2010
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I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
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College Slice
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Debug. The robot's got to be perfect if it is going to conquer Alaska.
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Dec 27, 2014 20:09
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- JosephWongKS
- Apr 4, 2009
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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Having completed Killall's initial test run, what will you do now? Now would be a good time to show Killall to Josh, to see whether he's interested in funding rer further development.
1. I should show the robot to Josh.
2. I should fix the little things I noticed during the test before I forget.
3. I should probably get a new phone in case Mom wants to call tonight.
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(-1 Humanity)
You noticed throughout the test that some things were off in the way Killall moved — the distribution of weight wasn't quite what your simulations predicted. The longer Killall has ill-fitting parts, the longer rhe will get used to moving around with them, and the harder it will be for you to change rer body.
You spend the rest of the day fiddling with CAD files, printing replacement parts, and seeing how Killall moves around with them. By the time you're done, you've yet again stayed up very late.
But when Killall crawls, there's now a precision in rer stops and starts. When rhe raises rer Inspector Gadget arms, rhe does so with style. Your attention to the perfection of form has paid off, and you go to sleep happy.
(++Grace)
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The next day, the new semester begins. Though you're past the point of taking classes, you're a teaching assistant, and that means instead of doing one homework assignment, you grade fifty. The students have mostly stopped coming to your office hours, as they apparently can't handle your blunt criticism. You tell them you are only being objective, and they can't correct their behavior without a learning vector in the correct direction, and of the correct magnitude. Is it your fault that the vector is so large? That is usually the point at which they find something else to do, and so much the better.
You're also busy writing a grant proposal for the National Science Foundation, trying to get an alternate source of funding that doesn't involve the military. Grant proposals are very long, it seems, and require you to make a lot of claims about things you don't actually know yet.
Despite your other time commitments, you've managed to sneak in a little time to work on Killall's motor programs.
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You soon realize that, while you're busy, Killall could be learning from the Internet. The most important thing for machine learning is more data, and there's a lot of it out there.
Lately, there have been a lot of custom hard drives on the market that are good at quickly retrieving particular kinds of information.
What sort of hard drive did you order for Killall's long-term memory?
1. A media-enhanced hard drive, good for quickly recalling faces and memories of events.
2. A multiblade hard drive that can efficiently store and query a giant amount of data.
3. An encrypted and tamper-proof hard drive, making it more difficult for Killall to be tampered with or reverse-engineered.
Stats posted:
Year: 2019
24-year-old Barry Tezuka
Humanity: 59%
Gender: Male
Fame: 0 (Who?)
Wealth: 0 (Broke)
Romance: none
Killall
Autonomy: 7 (In Beta)
Military: 12 (Stable)
Empathy: 6 (In Beta)
Grace: 9 (In Beta)
Material: Wood
Head: Ring of cameras
Mobility: Eight legs
Hands: ALL OF THEM
Engine: Biodiesel
Relationships
Professor Ziegler: 74% (Great)
Elly: 52% (Good)
Josh: 54% (Good)
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Achievements Unlocked posted:
Gadgeteer: Made Professor Ziegler reminisce about the Chief. (5 points)
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Dec 27, 2014 20:24
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- VictualSquid
- Feb 29, 2012
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Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
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No rugged drives that actually work well in a moving robot?
Best is a fast/large drive for all the data.
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Dec 27, 2014 20:33
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- Lord Cyrahzax
- Oct 11, 2012
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Encrypted drive.
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Dec 27, 2014 20:48
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- Porush
- Dec 26, 2012
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Encrypted. Nobody wants their robobuddy to get hacked.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:27
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- GenderSelectScreen
- Mar 7, 2010
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I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
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College Slice
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Encrypted . Can't let someone turn our killbot on us.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:52
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- Pompadour Diamond
- Mar 21, 2013
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Media-enhanced. Our Killbot needs to be able to tell friend from foe.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:36
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- Ghostwoods
- May 9, 2013
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Say "Cheese!"
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2. A multiblade hard drive that can efficiently store and query a giant amount of data.
Slurp ALL the datas!
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Dec 27, 2014 23:22
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- tlarn
- Mar 1, 2013
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You see,
God doesn't help little frogs.
He helps people like me.
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The encrypted one not only means our little bot can't be messed with, it's also the only drive that sounds like it'll actually survive being in a constantly moving chassis.
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Dec 27, 2014 23:25
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