US Navy's latest Online Wargame to combat Skynet

[WMGroomAK]

In the latest iteration of the US Navy's Office of Naval Research's Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI), the US Navy is going to fairly much crowd source gamer's ideas on how to combat a greater than human intelligence (singularity) event.  The MMOWGLI first launcher in 2011 to look at ideas ranging from combating piracy to reducing the reliance of the Navy on fossil fuels.  According to Dr. Eric Gulovsen:

 

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“Technology has advanced to the point that we can see the Singularity on the horizon,” said Dr. Eric Gulovsen, ONR’s director of disruptive technology. “What we can’t see, yet, is what lies over that horizon. That’s where we need help from players. This is a complex, open-ended problem, so we’re looking for people from all walks of life-Navy, non-Navy, technologist, non-technologist- to help us design our Navy for a ‘post-Singularity’ world.”

 

http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/20170315-game.html

 

This year's MMOWGLI project is scheduled to launch on March 27th and go for a week, so how many gamers out there are interested?  Is this a good topic for the Navy to be studying?  

[Radiant]

ehm sure

[VerticalDiscussions]

Mememememememememememememememememe..... you get the point. I would DEFINETLY be interested

[TidaLWaveZ]

Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.

[WMGroomAK]

Just now, TidaLWaveZ said:

Let's play Global Thermonuclear War

Where's Matthew Broderick at???

[TidaLWaveZ]

Just now, WMGroomAK said:

Where's Matthew Broderick at???

Taking the day off.

[ShardZ1]

Seems interesting, I wonder what the game play is like.

[Techstorm970]

23 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.

I dare you to yell that in a plane! 

[Orangeator]

3 minutes ago, ShardZ1 said:

Seems interesting, I wonder what the game play is like.

Well I doubt it will have high graphical requirements. Probably look like trash as they need as many people to use it as possible.

[Master Disaster]

39 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.

I wonder how many people get this reference?

 

Also inb4 the us navy comes up with a solution to a problem that doesn't exist but the solution ends up becoming the very problem it was invented to solve.

[ShardZ1]

17 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I wonder how many people get this reference?

 

Also inb4 the us navy comes up with a solution to a problem that doesn't exist but the solution ends up becoming the very problem it was invented to solve.

"Hello Joshua"

Great movie.

[WMGroomAK]

53 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I wonder how many people get this reference?

 

Also inb4 the us navy comes up with a solution to a problem that doesn't exist but the solution ends up becoming the very problem it was invented to solve.

I keep thinking a combination of 'The Matrix', 'Wargames', 'Terminator' and 'Dr. Strangelove'.

[SSL]

Why would we need to combat it?

[Doobeedoo]

This will be fun.

[SansVarnic]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

I wonder how many people get this reference?

 

Also inb4 the us navy comes up with a solution to a problem that doesn't exist but the solution ends up becoming the very problem it was invented to solve.

For those who do not. This movie was pretty good at the time ... today kids would be bored by it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

 

[ionbasa]

13 hours ago, Orangeator said:

Well I doubt it will have high graphical requirements. Probably look like trash as they need as many people to use it as possible.

FYI: Its a text based / message based game. See: 

 

Its essentially a card game that works by combining various cards such as strategy, theory, etc. These decisions then branch out into multiple options. You are essentially trying to play the best outcome.

 

So yes, it is a (card) game, think along the lines of a RPG, or something like GOPS:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofspiel or even Rummy. Other players can play on your idea cards and build up points. 

 

Its essentially a game theory experiment.

[JAKEBAB]

1 hour ago, ionbasa said:

FYI: Its a text based / message based game. See: 

 

Its essentially a card game that works by combing various cards such as strategy, theory, etc. These decisions then branch out into multiple options. You are essentially trying to play the best outcome.

 

So yes, it is a (card) game, think along the lines of a RPG, or something like GOPS:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofspiel or even Rummy. Other players can play on your idea cards and build up points. 

 

Its essentially a game theory experiment.

Wow what a buzzkill

[Ostwind]

10 hours ago, SSL said:

Why would we need to combat it?

I kept thinking the same thing, maybe it wont want to fight, maybe it will just want to touch butts with us.

[Thony]

 “What we can’t see yet, is what lies over that horizon. "

But you want to make a game preparing you for something unknown ?! How the fuck you want to do that

 

The only thing that comes up my mind is updated super realistic Skyrim in VR with like 100 gadgets soldiers can use in a warehouse designed for VR gameplay simulating almost amything.

 

 

 

 

 

[Prysin]

15 hours ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Mememememememememememememememememe..... you get the point. I would DEFINETLY be interested

mimimi?

 

[Prysin]

3 hours ago, JAKEBAB said:

Wow what a buzzkill

atleast it wasnt buzzfeed

[Okjoek]

Why would I need to combat the singularity?

[Guest Darth Revan]

Shall we play a game?

[JoseGuya]

What if Skynet was the creator of this game to get ideas of what humans would do when the singularity happens? 

[SSL]

9 hours ago, Ostwind said:

I kept thinking the same thing, maybe it wont want to fight, maybe it will just want to touch butts with us.

 

I seriously hope it wants to do more than that.

 

But if it's superior to human intelligence, probably not.