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raisin  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Needs some information

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  ·  
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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!