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Just throwing this out there. Have you considered that maybe you are a robot?

• FabHK 8y ago
  Reasonable. Just look at its name.
  • labster 8y ago
    Interesting use of "its" but it is entirely possible that a robot has a preferred set of gender pronouns, and you just mislabeled them. Many of our assumptions support the biopatriarchy.
    • adventist 8y ago
      biopatriarchy? Thats a new one for me today!
    • Fjolsvith 8y ago
      Robots find the use of "biodiversity" is discriminating.
  • ams6110 8y ago
    Just a keyboard pattern. Not uncommon enough to read anything into it.
• fargo 8y ago
  The Turing self-test
• echelon 8y ago
  I know this comment is in jest, but please don't joke on Hacker News as you would on Reddit. Posts like this add little informational content, spawn a thread of joke responses, and take time away from hundreds of people who are here to read high signal commentary. Sorry to be so profoundly un-fun. edit: I'm being downvoted, but consider the comment chain this has generated.
  • pault 8y ago
    The occasional exception is reasonable, if the exception is exceptionally clever.
  • jancsika 8y ago
    > I know this comment is in jest, but please don't joke on Hacker News as you would on Reddit. Posts like this add little informational content, spawn a thread of joke responses, and take time away from hundreds of people who are here to read high signal commentary. Here's a challenge: Create a bot capable of generating and posting content like the above that's attributed to "zxcvbn4038." The bot doesn't have to be able to get through spam filters or register itself. It just has to take the current state of a forum thread as (part of its) input and output a) content for a post and b) a position in the tree to insert it. The human bot-author can then try to insert the content into the thread at the given position. If the post doesn't get detected as spam and can avoid downvotes, the bot wins. The prize is the sheer joy of contradicting what I'm assuming is an HN mod: > edit: I'm being downvoted, but consider the comment chain this has generated. Edit: added rule about avoiding downvotes to retain "high signal commentary."
    • jancsika 8y ago
      And it looks like we may already be there: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk... Yet some more signal for this thread that started with a joke.
  • defertoreptar 8y ago
    I checked the HN guidelines, and I didn't see anything about humor. I did find this, though: > Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
  • danmaz74 8y ago
    At the risk of getting downvoted too, I'll second this. Reddit is already a great platform to read fun comments on any possible subject, let's try to keep them differentiated.
• dTal 8y ago
  Well if this isn't just redolent of "The Difference": https://qntm.org/difference https://qntm.org/difference
  • sneak 8y ago
    Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film)
    • chillwaves 8y ago
      I tried to get into that film but why does every AI story seem to end with man trying to fuck his creation? I'm over that trope.
      • omeid2 8y ago
        This may sound bizarre, but to fuck is a fundamental desire of organisms that reproduce sexually, and reproduction is one of the prime objectives of living organisms.
        • chillwaves 8y ago
          I am not sure how fucking a robot has anything to do with reproduction.
• jkestner 8y ago
  Either that, or their lack of common sense suggests that they are.