{"id":458,"date":"2004-02-24T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T12:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2020-11-10T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:39:11","slug":"the_virtual_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"the virtual world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">theres a pretty interesting article today from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3507531.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bbc<\/a> about the u.s. army\u2019s intent to build a virtual \u201csecond earth\u201d\u2026to be fully detailed and at full scale. shit. the u.s. army is currently working with the game company <i>there<\/i> to build an accurate model of the earth at full scale so theyre able to not only simulate battles, but also to \u201c<i>let the Army simulate intelligence work as well as patrols, planning and working with indigenous populations\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">coincidentally, theres also another article today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/computers\/article\/0,12543,592948,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popular science<\/a> about scientists attempting to create computer models of social thought patterns so theyre able to predict the behavior of whole populations. the way they describe the agents and coded behaviors reminded me of the \u201cmassive\u201d program utilized for crowd control in <i>the lord of the rings<\/i> movies. individual agents were prescribed with a set of behaviors and reactions, skills and thought patterns, which helped it to determine its course of action as it independently made its way thru its environment. in the defense departments case, the pentagon has laid down some $100 million to develop the oneSAF program, a similar agent-based modelling program they hope will be able to anticipate terrorist activity. they essentially plan on replicating the enemies of the u.s. in virtual form in order to predict their behavior. quite scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">now combine the agent-modelling with the full scale virtual earth and you have the potential to make some truly scary shit. hypothetically, they could build the full-scale earth down to every little detail, encode real-world physics, populate it with independent-thinking agent-models with prescribed behaviors, then interact with them in order to determine their behaviors and reactions in a real-life scale and environment. all virtually. this is the basis for how many movies? they could potentially even set the agent parameters, let the program run on its own, and see where society is in a hundred or so years\u2026whether theyre bombed out or hopping from planet to planet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3507531.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">creating a second earth<\/a> (via bbc)<br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/computers\/article\/0,12543,592948,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predicting behavior<\/a> (via pop sci)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/digital1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/digital1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/digital1-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/digital1-250x106.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/digital1-425x180.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theres a pretty interesting article today from the bbc about the u.s. army\u2019s intent to build a virtual \u201csecond earth\u201d\u2026to be fully detailed and at full scale. shit. the u.s. army is currently working with the game company there to build an accurate model of the earth at full scale so theyre able to not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}