[ExI] sex machine, was: RE: The answer to tireless stupidity

spike spike66 at att.net
Wed Nov 3 19:04:21 UTC 2010


>Subject: [ExI] The answer to tireless stupidity

>Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense... Jeff Davis

Actually this application would be a pointless waste of perfectly good
technology. 

Consider the online lonely hearts club.  There are places on the web (and
the usenets before that, and DARPAnet even before that) where lonely hearts
would hang out and make small talk.  A really useful application of a
chatbot would be to have it mines one's own writings and produce an enormous
lookup table, which it would then use to perform all the tedious,
error-prone and emotionally hazardous early stages of online seduction.  As
soon as the other party agrees to meeting for, um, stimulating conversation
(and so forth), then the seductobot would alert the user, who then reads
over what the bot has said to the perspective contact.

Of course, the other party might also have set up a seduct-o-matic to do the
same thing.

Similarly to Jeff's example, it might soon become very difficult to
distinguish two humans trying to get each other into the sack from two
lookup tables doing likewise.  As soon as actual creativity or innovation is
seen in the mating process, we know it must be a chatbot, for humans have
discovered nothing essentially new in that area since a few weeks after some
adventurous pair of protobonobos first discovered copulation. 

spike














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