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I managed to wire up sirc to a perl eliza implementation once. My cobol instructer in community college thought I was a pervert for doing so and in hindsight sh

I managed to wire up sirc to a perl eliza implementation once. My cobol instructer in community college thought I was a pervert for doing so and in hindsight she was probably right, I think I only ran it once honestly. Nowadays I just run an old eliza in another terminal when I chat on irc and copy and paste between the two terminals, this gets rid of the ethical concerns as there is a human between the interface acting as a guard against AI run amuck so I think I'm good.

tnzm 5y ago
Yep, you're alright. I like that you talk like a person and not like a copywriter. The lack of creative (or just non-dogmatic) thinking in this place is something else though. At times it feels like there's no human in the loop, which is disappointing because this is one of the few interesting forums remaining on the whole Internet... And even here's not immune to waves of people bulldozing over a nuanced conversation by parroting whatever ideological orthodoxy they've had to internalize to be able to successfully signal "lookit me HR I'm normaaaal". Fitting to mention Eliza - designed to be a shrink simulator IIRC? - sometimes I wish someone developed an AI to make people reflect on their blind spots in the rudest and most efficiently disruptive way possible. Thanks to the magic of AI, the ethical concerns of doing that to someone would vanish into thin air!
- mousepilot 5y ago
  I know what you mean (at least I hope I do), but after getting the boot from reddit (actually just 6 years of karma set to zero to effectively silence me) this place is fantastic by comparison, and I guess I'm new enough to have not been disappointed yet. I suspect that in time you're probably right, and I'll see that lack of mediocre thinking you speak of. The thing I have learned all too late in life is that on the average, people WILL dissapoint, its just that the current population here are such that maybe that disapointment will happen less often. Any place that inspires me to read more than write will get me hooked everytime tho. Yes Eliza the shrink, it was meant to be hooked to an irc bot lol.

tnzm 5y ago

Yep, you're alright. I like that you talk like a person and not like a copywriter. The lack of creative (or just non-dogmatic) thinking in this place is something else though. At times it feels like there's no human in the loop, which is disappointing because this is one of the few interesting forums remaining on the whole Internet... And even here's not immune to waves of people bulldozing over a nuanced conversation by parroting whatever ideological orthodoxy they've had to internalize to be able to successfully signal "lookit me HR I'm normaaaal". Fitting to mention Eliza - designed to be a shrink simulator IIRC? - sometimes I wish someone developed an AI to make people reflect on their blind spots in the rudest and most efficiently disruptive way possible. Thanks to the magic of AI, the ethical concerns of doing that to someone would vanish into thin air!

mousepilot 5y ago
I know what you mean (at least I hope I do), but after getting the boot from reddit (actually just 6 years of karma set to zero to effectively silence me) this place is fantastic by comparison, and I guess I'm new enough to have not been disappointed yet. I suspect that in time you're probably right, and I'll see that lack of mediocre thinking you speak of. The thing I have learned all too late in life is that on the average, people WILL dissapoint, its just that the current population here are such that maybe that disapointment will happen less often. Any place that inspires me to read more than write will get me hooked everytime tho. Yes Eliza the shrink, it was meant to be hooked to an irc bot lol.