On 11/1/19, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
A few years ago, I heard of a new version of the "Grand Theft Auto" program, maybe it was 'version 5', that was going to have an "assassination contract" feature built in. I didn't, and don't, know anything else
But it seemed to me that video games, especially modern ones, tend to lend themselves to immerse players in a modern, semi-realistic environment. If we want to learn as much as possible about the behavior of people with access to "assassination contract" scenarios, I assume it should occur in such games. What could have been learned, I never checked out.
There are MMORPGs, Second Life, many other sim platforms AP could be introduced on. Both in form of the raw text, such as added to the virtual world libraries, posted on virtual lightpoles, etc. And as a functional implementation, whether in a virtual market or embodied into a players character. Such platforms being centralized, the implementation would likely be reported and instantly shutdown. The raw text of AP might survive a bit longer. The main issue with such proposal as AP, as you noted, is getting exposure needed to run it through the critique and development cycles. For that you have to keep reposting AP everywhere... literally jamming it into peoples streams randomly throughout social media, news releases, journals, etc until a large enough mass starts to pick it up and work with it in their brains. Same as suggesting there is any truth out there besides the fake two party duopolies, etc... such as Libertarian Voluntary Anarchist models. Regardless of how valid the latter may in fact be, they are immediately dismissed because they are so far outside the everyday exposure and programmed computation modes of their brains. To counter that programming you have to either get lucky with a starburst logic bomb, or invest much traditional school time equivalent in reprogramming them. For example... the public conferences and interviews AP has done recently have had more public exposure effects towards that than all posts here to date.