This is fascinating to me. Those crazy kids, err, I mean, Researchers at Rensselaer are using Second Life as a platform to test an engineered, self-reasoning avatar. Yes, avatar. The little character on the screen that comes to life when operated by a reasoning human being, only… without the human being. His name is Eddie.
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A response to Atty and Scholar Andrew Jankowich’s article, “EULAw: The Complex Web of Corporate Rule-Making in Virtual Worlds”
Below is an excerpted response to Jankowich’s article, in an email I sent to him 11/25/2007:
I appreciate that you respect so much that ‘quitting the game’ is not the option that the non-rpg-playing public seems to think […]