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There's a fantastic short story called "Sort by Controversial" about a startup that develops a technology that generates the most controversial statements possi
by insickness 5y ago
There's a fantastic short story called "Sort by Controversial" about a startup that develops a technology that generates the most controversial statements possible and threatens to destroy humanity:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
- at_a_remove 5y agoIn the early days of IRC, around 1991, there was this bot that was ... possibly the most brilliant Turing test dodge I had ever seen. It would respond with keywords, but only in the most argumentative, liable-to-set people off, divisive manner possible. The arguments, I figured through probing, were pre-programmed, it wasn't coming up with them on the fly. You see, people didn't figure out that it was AI because they were too angry. It passed the Turing Test not because it could think, but because it made ordinary people stop thinking. Just as clever as we are if we're both dolts.
- NackerHughes 5y agoI'm intrigued. Do you have any more info on this?
- swayvil 5y agoI met a guy like this. Incredibly combative and assaultive. And weirdly irrational. For a while we actually thought he might be a bot. Now we think he's just some wealthy fellow (always on reddit), with a chemical imbalance, raised on religious doctrine apologetics debate stuff. Ewk.
- commandlinefan 5y agoSuch a shame he stopped writing this stuff - nowadays it's just book reviews.