Left 4 Dead 2, and Nerd Rage
Wow, this is amazing. I am trying to wrap my head around what’s going on here. One thing is obvious: Valve has us spoiled. Left 4 Dead 2 First things first, Valve announced Left 4 Dead 2 at the E3. The game will have plenty of new things over the first: A new and improved [...]
Francis Hates Everything
You know I love Left 4 Dead – I actually got to play it quite a lot, too. One thing that’s great about the game is how the characters interact (automatically), letting small conversations form in some spots that are different every playthrough of a map. Now if you’ve heard a few of those conversations, [...]
Left 4 Dead Pre-Order Open
I just got mine today. Left 4 Dead is coming in roughly four weeks, I’m sure you heard about it. It’s the upcoming post-apocalyptic zombie shooter by Valve, the makers of the awesome Team Fortress 2 and the Half Life series, with raving previews (an extensive preview is here) – everyobdy who played it loves [...]
John Searle’s Chinese Room
I attempted to show in a paper that my counter arguments to Searle’s Chinese Room don’t prove that there can be such a thing as strong AI, but that at least they go to show that Searle’s attempt at proving there can’t be has failed, and as such the question whether strong AI can exist is as of yet still unresolved.


