On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
> > Warming? Is for the birds. Will at most kill a billion.
>
> What. An. Awesome. Quote.
>
I think Eugen is being too optimistic. We're already probably fried because
we're paralyzed
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Warming? Is for the birds. Will at most kill a billion.
What. An. Awesome. Quote.
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:13:57AM -0500, Sean Doyle wrote:
> Agreed. I worry this will set off an arms race - the people that fund GW
> deniers will now fund an army of chatbots. I'm sure there's an twitter
> version of Gresham's law - any sane comments or discussion will get
> overwhelmed by the
On 08-Nov-10 8:05 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> An assumption that a viewpoint opposed to yours is "nonsense" is,
> indeed, patronizing and flawed.
How do you know that it's an "assumption"? Oh.
Is this way of handling things better, in your opinion?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Sean Doyle wrote:law -
any sane comments or discussion will get overwhelmed by the bots.
Instead of debates aided by what's bottled, we'll have bot-led debates
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
>
> And I agree with all those comments down below, which point out what's
> wrong with the chatbot way of handling criticism, denial and negation.
>
Agreed. I worry this will set off an arms race - the people that fund GW
deniers will now fu
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:05:11PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> An assumption that a viewpoint opposed to yours is "nonsense" is, indeed,
> patronizing and flawed.
The question is what cost is associated with both outcomes.
Sometimes, the cost of keeping an open mind is just too high.
(And I don'
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> forwarded from an ex-silklister.
>
> > Programmer Nigel Leck got tired of dealing with climate-change denial,
> > so he wrote a chatbot to respond with arguments drawn from a database:
> >
> > http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssb
forwarded from an ex-silklister.
> Programmer Nigel Leck got tired of dealing with climate-change denial,
> so he wrote a chatbot to respond with arguments drawn from a database:
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25964/?ref=rss
>
> (It's not good at recognizing sarcasm, tho
