I wasn’t sure where to add this comment, or idea rather. But I have something to propose hair that I think would make a gigantic impact on the well-being of millions. I don’t have a fancy research or such to back it up yet but I’m sure there’s money out there to support if needed. So here goes … I remember learning about ancient times and Greek mythology and such and was very fascinated with the time period and a lot of it’s heroes. I do believe that’s back then four wars or sometimes fought by having two of the best warriors battled and place of whole armies going to war. Each side would pick the best of their best to go up against the best of the other sides army. And those man chosen, the ones that seem to have been born to do such things, would fight each other and the winner will take the victory for his side. It kind of makes sense to me to do it this way rather than have some person who is a leader of a country or a place use its people as poems in some game of power between himself and another doing the same. So with this idea in mind what if instead of real battle using human lives instead started doing battles in the technology realm of things using video games as the medium. There’s already so many more games out there why not have each country have their own video game army I suppose. Some sort of virtual battlefields could be made and many lives actually saved by doing the battle this way instead of in person. The world is already advanced quite a bit in the direction of this being a possibility with the amount of people who play video games. So I’m just going to plant the seed of this idea here and see what happens with it. Perhaps some of the funding could go towards making sure our country has people that can build us a virtual army of sorts and perhaps by having more in this manner instead of involving real life death it could help some people channel up there anger and I less hurtful way to humankind. I haven’t signed into this website or anything and I’m not sure if I even have any information on who I am it’s going to show up here or if anybody needs it. My name is Lavender West, and I’m just a girl that is spent way too much time of my life trying to figure out a way to actually help fix the mess that seems to be going on all around me in this world. And right now this seems like a pretty feasible idea. What are your thoughts?
Hi, I think this is an interesting idea, thanks for raising it. People have raised this a few times before, mostly in science fiction. You might wonder why countries don’t do this already.
The main issue is lack of enforcement mechanism. If someone does well with their videogame armies, the loser could agree to abide by the rules. Or they can “cheat” and just invade your country with a real army anyway. And there are strong incentives for cheating!
I think this idea is theoretically workable but it’s pretty hard to get it to work. You probably need an external enforcement mechanism somehow.
This paper has a bunch of jargon but might be related.
Sorry for the joke, I actually like your idea. But the military indeed sorta prevent having wars by doing military exercises to expensively signal strength and capabilities. That’s how we have prevented WW III so far.
So the crux is doing this without such an economic waste.
Please excuse any type of a mess of this post. Not sure if anybody’s even going to read it but it wasn’t edited before I hit the submit button and I literally have just been rambling into the speak to text on my phone, which at times seems to hear things other than once I am trying to have it relay
I wasn’t sure where to add this comment, or idea rather. But I have something to propose hair that I think would make a gigantic impact on the well-being of millions. I don’t have a fancy research or such to back it up yet but I’m sure there’s money out there to support if needed. So here goes … I remember learning about ancient times and Greek mythology and such and was very fascinated with the time period and a lot of it’s heroes. I do believe that’s back then four wars or sometimes fought by having two of the best warriors battled and place of whole armies going to war. Each side would pick the best of their best to go up against the best of the other sides army. And those man chosen, the ones that seem to have been born to do such things, would fight each other and the winner will take the victory for his side. It kind of makes sense to me to do it this way rather than have some person who is a leader of a country or a place use its people as poems in some game of power between himself and another doing the same. So with this idea in mind what if instead of real battle using human lives instead started doing battles in the technology realm of things using video games as the medium. There’s already so many more games out there why not have each country have their own video game army I suppose. Some sort of virtual battlefields could be made and many lives actually saved by doing the battle this way instead of in person. The world is already advanced quite a bit in the direction of this being a possibility with the amount of people who play video games. So I’m just going to plant the seed of this idea here and see what happens with it. Perhaps some of the funding could go towards making sure our country has people that can build us a virtual army of sorts and perhaps by having more in this manner instead of involving real life death it could help some people channel up there anger and I less hurtful way to humankind. I haven’t signed into this website or anything and I’m not sure if I even have any information on who I am it’s going to show up here or if anybody needs it. My name is Lavender West, and I’m just a girl that is spent way too much time of my life trying to figure out a way to actually help fix the mess that seems to be going on all around me in this world. And right now this seems like a pretty feasible idea. What are your thoughts?
Hi, I think this is an interesting idea, thanks for raising it. People have raised this a few times before, mostly in science fiction. You might wonder why countries don’t do this already.
The main issue is lack of enforcement mechanism. If someone does well with their videogame armies, the loser could agree to abide by the rules. Or they can “cheat” and just invade your country with a real army anyway. And there are strong incentives for cheating!
I think this idea is theoretically workable but it’s pretty hard to get it to work. You probably need an external enforcement mechanism somehow.
This paper has a bunch of jargon but might be related.
Oh I was hoping you would propose this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-end-of-history
Sorry for the joke, I actually like your idea. But the military indeed sorta prevent having wars by doing military exercises to expensively signal strength and capabilities. That’s how we have prevented WW III so far. So the crux is doing this without such an economic waste.
Please excuse any type of a mess of this post. Not sure if anybody’s even going to read it but it wasn’t edited before I hit the submit button and I literally have just been rambling into the speak to text on my phone, which at times seems to hear things other than once I am trying to have it relay
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