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Old 08-01-2008, 12:21 PM   #63
shadowfyr
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Re: Triggers, scripts, and bots

Scandum - I have an "IQ" over 120. I happen to *know* people that where at one point in Mensa. The common characteristic between those of us who think IQ tests are BS, while having high IQs, is that we try damn hard to understand how the world really works. The common element among Mensa people is that you are about 500 times as likely to find loonies among them that believe the moon landing didn't happen, space aliens are secretly working with the government, Crystals or Magnets from Atlantis "heal" people, or just about any other sort of unproven woo possible. These are people that **think** themselves so much smarter than everyone else that they quite happilly latch on to any old insane idea, defend it with all the skill and genius they have, no matter how invalid, and spend more time learning how to solve the next "puzzle" that makes them **look** smart than they ever actually spend thinking.

Ironically, this is directly anologious to botting. Someone else codes the bot, a new guy comes along that is smart enough to adapt it to their mud, but they have no clue how to deal with other people in the game, what some of the rules are, or, perhaps, even how the bot itself works 100%. What they do have is a whole list of metrics that the "game" set up that say that they are geniuses for being able to "solve" the puzzle of killing 500 trolls in 10 hours, or defeating the Great Red Dragon, or what ever. They may be complete idiots socially, in terms of the overall game world, or, possibly, even in terms of fully understanding what the bot they use does. And the guy that coded it in the first place, might still be a complete twit with respect to the first two. High IQ means someone recognized that you where damn good at IQ tests *period*. But even ex-Mensa people will tell you that **thinking** that makes you great may actually help turn you into a complete idiot, and that the only quality of the crazy ideas, and how convoluted and hard to pick apart their defenses are, changes once people become "convinced" that their all their ideas, even the stupid ones, are better than "dumber people's".
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