> a bot which provides random citations base on key phrases... providing no thought and adding nothing to the discussion, by definition, he is providing noise.

> a bot which provides random citations base on key phrases... providing no thought and adding nothing to the discussion, by definition, he is providing noise. The thought he's adding is pre-cached. He's making a time-memory tradeoff. A memoized factorial function is still a factorial function, and a well-referenced refutation is still a well-referenced refutation, whether it's typed live or recorded in a bot.