ChrisPine comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChrisPine 02 December 2009 11:40:22AM 2 points [-]

They want a fun opponent.

In games with many players (where alliances are allowed), you could make the AI's more likely to ally with each other and to gang up on the human player. This could make an 8-player game nearly impossible. But the goal is not to beat the human. The goal is for the AI to feel real (human), and be fun.

As you point out, the goal in this contest is very different.