What would get AH growing again

[DmonSlyr]

It is.  I haven't flown in about 2 months, and I am upset that I don't miss it anymore than I do.

The guy who quit the game over a single player... the irony 

I actually did miss it though, atleast what it was before him...

[nrshida]

AI can't do everything better than people, it's always going to be reactive even if the reaction is very quick.

[AKIron]

AI is already "smarter" than a lot of people. I wouldn't count on it not growing into a self-proclaimed state of sentience if I was you.

[Banshee7]

The guy who quit the game over a single player... the irony 

Isn't that what you did?  I had checked out of this game before Skyyr's "ban" as noted by the 1hr 47m of flight time in September (he was banned the 16th).  And what if we never actually left? 

I actually did miss it though, atleast what it was before him...

I'm afraid what we both miss will never be again. 

[RotBaron]

Like no drama compared to how I remember. Back in the day people were arranging to have it out on the mic at random locations in MC ing comps to decide the fight bringing their own PA systems 

To be fair in those days MC ing it off on the mic was how everything was decided and it was brutal   

Some fellas never came back from those days and we miss them 

Some people got very angry and we are better now 
We had some young fellas squaring off and the forumn would run to 100 pages. WHO WHAT WHEN WHATEVER. THE real war was here on the forumn and people who had not logged in for years were in the thick of it. I personally know of felllas who were advised on mental health grounds to take a brake from AH. It was just too hot to live with and they had to step back 


I think the Flame forumn war was the peak. I dont know what it was about but I am a survivor 

Suffering from low-T these days but haven’t done the blood work yet to realize. A good row makes everything more interesting, quite healthy for all, a few mentally unstable take things further… Thankfully the leader was removed.

[nrshida]

AI is already "smarter" than a lot of people. I wouldn't count on it not growing into a self-proclaimed state of sentience if I was you.

Your culture seems abnormally paranoid about that eventuality.

[zack1234]

People had mental health issues because of cartoon planes?

Nonsense

They were mental before they logged on.

Yarbles has loads of issues.

The main one is being a liberal southerner.

Northern England is still English…fact

[Yarbles]

People had mental health issues because of cartoon planes?

Nonsense

They were mental before they logged on.

Yarbles has loads of issues.

The main one is being a liberal southerner.

Northern England is still English…fact

Zack likes chippy tea 

I remember Friday night you would strap yourself into your gaming seat stark naked, with a bottle of Jack just like Winston Churchill 

[Yarbles]

Your culture seems abnormally paranoid about that eventuality.

We invented the Frankenstein complex to be fare     

The colonials caught it from Mary Shelley.

[AKIron]

Your culture seems abnormally paranoid about that eventuality.

Not paranoid enough imo.

[Shane]

We invented the Frankenstein complex to be fare     

The colonials caught it from Mary Shelley.

More like America is Mr. Hyde to England's Dr. Jekyll

[Yarbles]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wzdTTSA7nQ

This is a justified but ancient video diary of when Zack and Micky set off to visit London. Note the well thumbed London A to Z on the dashboard.

In deference to culture they sported a part worn GB sicker and drove on the other side of the road. 

[nrshida]

Not paranoid enough imo.

I don't think a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unfounded jealousy and exaggerated self-importance arranged into an organized system is anything to aspire to.

[Yarbles]

I don't think a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unfounded jealousy and exaggerated self-importance arranged into an organized system is anything to aspire to.

Science meets politics is it ?

"Please welcome to the annual mad scientists convention professor neutron who first coined the phrase "fools I will destroy them all".

[AKIron]

I don't think a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unfounded jealousy and exaggerated self-importance arranged into an organized system is anything to aspire to.

You are over dramatizing. Fear in letting a growing AI, potentially capable of taking control of everything connected to the Internet, should be nurtured. This AI need not harbor its own malicious designs but simply those of its creators. Yes, fear. The survival instinct that comes from understanding we cannot predict what such an AI might be capable of.