[extropy-chat] Channel surfing

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Well, having ONE of those things puts control in the
> hands of the person holding it. Having TWO or more
> however
> might test the patience of the more ardent channel
> surfer :-)

Especially if one surfer does not realize there is
another controller.

I recently got into a situation like this at work,
remotely accessing a system while someone else tried
to log on.  As it turned out, both our accesses were
legit - I had to do some maintenance, and the other
one was the system's official sysadmin checking things
out - but we each thought the other was a cracker from
outside the company.  The sysadmin gave up after being
kicked off the system four times.

...then again, considering the sysadmin's low level of
experience, I could have pretended to be an AI -
specifically, the computer in question come alive -
and she'd never have known the difference.  I wonder
if there's a name for reverse Turing like that.