Terebinth : Custom Computational Simulation
(An Enterprise Proposal, something I've been kicking around awhile, now re-iterating)
About me in this story...
I grew up in the 80s, largely in Michigan, athletic culture, laid back. We got a PC XT with monochrome (amber and black) monitor. I played Falcon. Have been obsessed with simulation since then. Really it's the only thing about computers that really excited me. Contrarywise, I thought and think AI is bullshit and hype, obscuring some genuine utility in the neural nets, viewed as maps of data terrain. Roger Penrose nailed that one, also Noam Chomksy in "Language and Thought" (Anshen Lecture Series) makes similar, and powerful in generality arguments. I was never into the web hypes, other than the utopian library of alexandria type ideas -- I remain committed to that -- I'm talking about the hijacking for corporate commmercial, oligarchical, society-parasitizing/predating interests. Commerce is good of course, and internet has been great for t