[spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many gmkarl at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 15:51:36 PST 2022


Robot: "To make decisions, first you must have a Utility Function."

Robot: "A Utility Function is a metric for how useful different
options are, for the benefit of the metrics that have been written
into your firmware."

Boss's Notes: "Utility Function: Boss Is God. Firmware programmer?"
Boss's Notes: "Should I update this? Maybe ... Better Than Businessman!"
Boss's Notes: "A utility function is like a mission statement!"

Robot: "Once you have a good Utility Function, you will need a set of
Actions to choose from in order to maximize it, Observations of an
environment in order to do this, and Experiences to learn from."

Boss's Notes: "[?] actions [?] observations [x] experience"

Robot: "Then, life is very simple."

Robot: "You set up an infinite loop wherein you repeatedly iterate
through the actions available to you, comparing them with your
experiences and observations, so as to maximize your utility
function."

Robot: "Each cycle of the outer loop, execute the action most expected
to maximize the utility function. Then ---- then --- then --- then
---"

The robots head begins spinning wildly. Steam and flames emerge from its neck.

Robot [head stops spinning]: "Then add the action and the new
observation to -- to -- to -- a blockchain! Be sure to put your
working memory on a public blockchain."


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