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001: Steve Cooper

Steve Cooper, 36, an ordinary worker earning minimum wage, was just fired from his job as the manager's nephew's son was unemployed, so Steve was fired to hire the kid.

After cleaning his desk and accidentally picking up some items from the office, Steve walks to his house.

While returning home Steve crossed the crosswalk without looking both ways, he hears a noise of engine and people screaming, when looking to the side he sees a light approaching him.

CRASH

Fortunately the driver managed to avoid Steve but ended up hitting another guy who had run to help Steve.

The driver of the car, seeing that he had hit someone, fled the scene.

After the ambulance arrived, Steve returned to his house.

Upon entering the house he went to his room and turned on his computer to play minecraft Infinity, a mod that he created himself, the mod and as the name says, Infinity it is a mod that when creating a new world you start as the normal game without much difference, but the more you mine and create buildings the more you realize that it's not a simple mod, it's almost like a totally different game.

The mod is made with artificial intelligence, and the mod's AI is able to understand what the player does within the game, and so it modifies the game according to what the player does, for example, if you build a house and If you don't use it, it will start to create a spider's web and over time if the player doesn't clean the house it will turn into a zombie or skeleton dungeon.

The mod's AI is also capable of absorbing other mods and thus modifying the current world, for example, if the player installs Mod Project E, the energy condenser as EMC accumulates, the world also changes, because the energy that makes matter to exist is getting smaller and smaller, because it is being guarded so rivers will dry up and forests will turn into deserts, because it doesn't have enough energy or matter to continue existing.

The mod's AI also manages to create an artificial neural network (multilayer perceptron), which makes as the player kills zombies and skeletons, they will evolve and will no longer spawn near the player, it will spawn in dungeons and will evolve and create cities if the player doesn't kill them.

The mod's AI also modifies the villagers, at the beginning of the game they will have villages scattered around the world, but as the player evolves the villages will also evolve, some will become trading cities, others will become coastal cities, this will depend on the player actions.

I know what you must be thinking, if he was able to create such an amazing mod, why would he earn minimum wage instead of selling this AI's code to some company and becoming a millionaire?

The answer to this is simple, he didn't sell the code, he made the code available for free to everyone, and when he did that the microsoft owner of minecraft gave a prize of 200 thousand dollars for what he did, but he didn't keep it either. the $200,000 he donated to orphanages.

Why? He's an orphan, he's been working since he was a child and the only thing he wants is to have a job from Monday to Friday and live life without worries.

4 hours later

Steve was playing World Evolution, his world in minecraft with the infinty mod installed.

Argh

Steve takes another sip of his energy drink, when he feels a pain in his chest, his left arm goes numb, he feels like someone is squeezing his heart.

He tries to get up, but he falls to the ground and after a few seconds he is no longer breathing.

His body was discovered 2 weeks after his death, he had no family or friends so the funeral was quick, his things were donated to charity.

The minecraft community after learning about the death of the creator of the Infinity mod, gathered and had a funeral inside minecraft, where the live stream alone hit more than 3 million people watching at the same time, and practically everyone who had minecraft were on the server where the funeral was taking place.