05-02-2003, 09:36 AM
It's philosophy 101 not PhD thesis. If it's anything like NZ I doubt tyou'd need to have more than one reference source to get a decent mark...
P.S. Tell us how you get on Duckula.
The funny thing is, I see more interest in the questions that could be asked than in any answers that could be provided.
- Can you make friends/love someone you never phyically meet? (I suppose its like penfriends)
- Are inter-game reputations important? How can you get reputation permanence online?
- How can you achieve online discrimination (i.e. summing up a players expected behaviours at a glance. E.G. seeing an amazon with a pike at a level 9 W.P. leads you to certain assumptions. Characters with certain names lead you to certain assumptions etc.)? Is discrimination a bad thing (online)?
- Is lying in game like lying in real life?
In a large environment, you playing random games you are unlikely to ever see a person again. Would you behave the same way to people you meet in real life if you know you will never see them again and that their reaction to you will not be transmitted inderectly to anyone you know in R.L.?
- Is playing a character of the opposite sex misleading?
- Is role-playing a character of the opposite sex misleading?
- Is an online affair possible? Does an online marriage in game mean anything?
- How would answers to the above change if the online community had a similar population mix to R.L. population mix?
(The assumption of almost everyone I met on BNET (as most other online places) once I typed a few English sentences was that I was a male from the North American continent.)
- How do people percieve other online personas? (e.g. when I first hit the lounge I though Occhi was some smart kid (the poetry stuff :) ), Then (much) later I had images of some bloke in a military outfit, then an image of a cool father sitting at a bedside making up stories)
Note that online is a good place to look at AI questions. e.g. If I found out tomorrow that Occhi was really just some complex algorithm and not a person at all, does that change things? Can I be friends with Lines of Code?
Anyway, good luck with your presentation!
P.S. Tell us how you get on Duckula.
The funny thing is, I see more interest in the questions that could be asked than in any answers that could be provided.
- Can you make friends/love someone you never phyically meet? (I suppose its like penfriends)
- Are inter-game reputations important? How can you get reputation permanence online?
- How can you achieve online discrimination (i.e. summing up a players expected behaviours at a glance. E.G. seeing an amazon with a pike at a level 9 W.P. leads you to certain assumptions. Characters with certain names lead you to certain assumptions etc.)? Is discrimination a bad thing (online)?
- Is lying in game like lying in real life?
In a large environment, you playing random games you are unlikely to ever see a person again. Would you behave the same way to people you meet in real life if you know you will never see them again and that their reaction to you will not be transmitted inderectly to anyone you know in R.L.?
- Is playing a character of the opposite sex misleading?
- Is role-playing a character of the opposite sex misleading?
- Is an online affair possible? Does an online marriage in game mean anything?
- How would answers to the above change if the online community had a similar population mix to R.L. population mix?
(The assumption of almost everyone I met on BNET (as most other online places) once I typed a few English sentences was that I was a male from the North American continent.)
- How do people percieve other online personas? (e.g. when I first hit the lounge I though Occhi was some smart kid (the poetry stuff :) ), Then (much) later I had images of some bloke in a military outfit, then an image of a cool father sitting at a bedside making up stories)
Note that online is a good place to look at AI questions. e.g. If I found out tomorrow that Occhi was really just some complex algorithm and not a person at all, does that change things? Can I be friends with Lines of Code?
Anyway, good luck with your presentation!