Comments on: Fake Dead People http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/fake-dead-people/ A Portrait of the Archaeologist as a Young Woman. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:37:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Before there were graphics, there was text: and fake dead people too « Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/fake-dead-people/#comment-768 Before there were graphics, there was text: and fake dead people too « Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:25:53 +0000 http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/?p=347#comment-768 [...] there was text: and fake dead people too I’m still mulling Colleen’s post, Fake Dead People, where she writes about using non-player characters in games as mere ‘mouthpieces’ for [...] [...] there was text: and fake dead people too I’m still mulling Colleen’s post, Fake Dead People, where she writes about using non-player characters in games as mere ‘mouthpieces’ for [...]

]]> By: egoodman http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/fake-dead-people/#comment-747 egoodman Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:26:56 +0000 http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/?p=347#comment-747 ...Which reminds me of the irony of the Henry Ford Museum, which doesn't even try to use the employees inhabiting its "historic" buildings and toiling in its reconstructed agricultural sites (which puts "the farm of 1850" right down the path from "the farm of 1750") as re-enactors. The employees wear the poke bonnets, they work the fields by hand, they attempt to make cakes in 1830s kitchens using 1830s Michigan cookbooks ... but they do it all as themselves: 21st century Michiganders who are working a shift job which happens to be at a museum. If you can't tell, I really admire the museum curators' respect for both the reality of their employees' lives and the uncrossable distance between the people doing the work of sharecroppers and the actual sharecroppers of a century ago. …Which reminds me of the irony of the Henry Ford Museum, which doesn’t even try to use the employees inhabiting its “historic” buildings and toiling in its reconstructed agricultural sites (which puts “the farm of 1850″ right down the path from “the farm of 1750″) as re-enactors. The employees wear the poke bonnets, they work the fields by hand, they attempt to make cakes in 1830s kitchens using 1830s Michigan cookbooks … but they do it all as themselves: 21st century Michiganders who are working a shift job which happens to be at a museum.

If you can’t tell, I really admire the museum curators’ respect for both the reality of their employees’ lives and the uncrossable distance between the people doing the work of sharecroppers and the actual sharecroppers of a century ago.

]]> By: Native Language and Culture through 3d Gaming « Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/fake-dead-people/#comment-734 Native Language and Culture through 3d Gaming « Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:46:23 +0000 http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/?p=347#comment-734 [...] in the video regarding the agency of the non-player characters, and then read Colleen’s post here. ▶ Comment /* 0) { jQuery('#comments').show('', change_location()); [...] [...] in the video regarding the agency of the non-player characters, and then read Colleen’s post here. ▶ Comment /* 0) { jQuery(‘#comments’).show(”, change_location()); [...]

]]> By: Four Stone Hearth (58th Edition) | moneduloides http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/fake-dead-people/#comment-733 Four Stone Hearth (58th Edition) | moneduloides Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:47:29 +0000 http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/?p=347#comment-733 [...] AI meets archaeology: Colleen Morgan over at Middle Savagery has given us her own perspective on Fake Dead People. Fundamentally we are better off wearing Caesar’s crown for ourselves rather than asking a poor [...] [...] AI meets archaeology: Colleen Morgan over at Middle Savagery has given us her own perspective on Fake Dead People. Fundamentally we are better off wearing Caesar’s crown for ourselves rather than asking a poor [...]

]]> By: chewy http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/fake-dead-people/#comment-732 chewy Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:58:05 +0000 http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/?p=347#comment-732 the transition from NPCs to Eliza was hilarious. Also, something about this post reminded me of late, crazy Robert Heinlein with his anthromorphic ship computers who ended up with bodies according to his imagination. the transition from NPCs to Eliza was hilarious. Also, something about this post reminded me of late, crazy Robert Heinlein with his anthromorphic ship computers who ended up with bodies according to his imagination.

]]> By: Jesse http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/fake-dead-people/#comment-731 Jesse Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:10:01 +0000 http://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/?p=347#comment-731 my friend tony and i were talking about making an eliza bot this weekend that would claim to be pyschic and do cold readings and guided questioning. We figure if someone's stupid enough to fall for cold reading, they're probably also stupid enough to fall for an eliza bot. my friend tony and i were talking about making an eliza bot this weekend that would claim to be pyschic and do cold readings and guided questioning.

We figure if someone’s stupid enough to fall for cold reading, they’re probably also stupid enough to fall for an eliza bot.

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