a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by _refugee_
_refugee_  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Needs some information

a) I think you're a bot

b) I suggest you drink until you can no longer remember

c) I suggest you realize that since you can't make yourself forget your own lived experiences, you learn how to deal with them

d) Maybe try therapy

e) Hubski isn't your therapist





The_Final_Boss  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·  
This comment has been deleted.
Quatrarius  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How old are you?

The_Final_Boss  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And why is that your business!?

_refugee_  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is yet another reason I suspect you are a bot. You bring things up in conversation, then when others ask you for more information regarding them, you become hostile and refuse to divulge.

This simply isn't the way that people converse.

The_Final_Boss  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well my bad, everybody's not perfect, what do I have to do to prove I'm not a bot, and by the way, aren't these "bots" not supposed to have emotion?

user-inactivated  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    What do I have to do to prove I'm not a bot

Interview time! Tell us . . .

1) Your favorite Ninja Turtle, Transformer, Care Bear, or My Little Pony

2) Your favorite food

3) How you came to discover that Santa Claus isn't real

4) Your dream car

and 5) Your dream job

The_Final_Boss  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Optimus prime is my favorite transformer, my favorite food is combination fried rice, one day I came to a reliazation when I was 7 that the government would of tooken him by then if he had magical powers and they would cut him open, and experiment, my dream car is a 60s Thunderbird, and my dream job is one that would make me a LOT of money, is this enough to prove that I am not a bot?

user-inactivated  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Let me analyze your answers here . . .

1) Your choice of Transfomers out of the four listed cartoons is very suspicious. It shows that you have a heavy bias in favor of technology. To further compound things, your favorite character happens to be Optimus Prime. A leader. A straight arrow. An authority figure. This suggests that you value laws and structure. In short, this is the perfect answer a bot would give.

2) Combination fried rice. You know what's crazy about rice? There's a lot of it, making counting it a challenge. From what I understand, computers are all about numbers, so once again, this is a perfect answer for a bot.

3) You rationalization for the inexistence of Santa Claus is both deeply logical and completely unempathetic. If that doesn't scream "bot" I don't know what does.

4) While a Thunderbird if far from my first choice for a dream car, your answer is very unique. At the same time, you didn't say something a bot would say such as "Oh, a Honda Civic would be fine, I'm only worried about getting from point A to point B." Your answer here hints that you might not be a bot after all.

5) You don't want a dream job that appeals to your emotions or passions. Only cash. Cold. Hard. Emotionless cash. That's the kind of answer I'd suspect from a bot.

After thinking about things long and hard today, I've decided that your answer to question number 4 is sufficient enough to show that you very well might be human. You pass, for now. But be warned. I have Rick Deckard on speed dial.

I kid. I kid. It's nice to meet you by the way.

The_Final_Boss  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Whooooo! I passed!, wait who is Rick Decard?

user-inactivated  ·  3210 days ago  ·  link  ·  
The_Final_Boss  ·  3210 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok then,

Quatrarius  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because you mentioned your age in your comment and I was curious? You don't need to tell me if you don't want to.

The_Final_Boss  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·  
This comment has been deleted.
raisin  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am curious, why do you think that he/she/it is a bot?

_refugee_  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Everything about grammar and word choice seems off. Slightly off, as one would hope to see from a not-blatant bot, but off. Also note lack of replies. Other possibility: non-native English speaker, but then I'd expect to see more activity from said user.

The_Final_Boss  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I have a question to you, what did you mean by " everything about my grammer and word choice seem a bit off?

_refugee_  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For instance, in the above comment, you failed to close your quotation marks

The_Final_Boss  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  
This comment has been deleted.
The_Final_Boss  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Huh, well, I guess I did, my bad, but do you still think I'm a bot?, And what about my "word "choice"?

OftenBen  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ever talked to our friendly, native IRC bot lambda? (thundara) These posts kind of have the flavor of Markov chain generated text.

raisin  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, not yet. I probably got to show up in the IRC more often anyway :)

So is lambda written by @thundara or are you saying that @thundara is a bot? I've been following @thundara for some time now, and if it so happens than he/she is a bot then that means that I'm... well, really bad in this whole bot-detection game.

OftenBen  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lambda is indeed a bot and Thundara is indeed it's creator. Although in thinking about it, I swear I remember a conversation that implied that lambda didn't use Markov modeling, but some other kind of speech generator.

thundara  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Manager, not creator. I'm just running an instance of MegaHAL. And it is a Markov-based language simulator that learns from the conversations of others in the channel.

raisin: I aspire to one day be a bot

The_Final_Boss  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wait, thundara, if you manage a bot, can't you tell if I'm one or not?

thundara  ·  3206 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Looking through your comment history, you seem to have asked this question more than once. You'd either have to be human or a pretty convincing bot for you to doubt your own identity in this manner.

The_Final_Boss  ·  3205 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Whoo! That means that I'm not a bot! Here that everyone! I'm not a bot!