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Ignoring this specific case where it seems especially unlikely, that's always seemed like someone worked backwards and overthought it to me, "the spelling mista
by throwaway821909 5y ago
Ignoring this specific case where it seems especially unlikely, that's always seemed like someone worked backwards and overthought it to me, "the spelling mistakes, they have to mean something".
I don't think there is a binary smart population and dumb population to optimise around, for every step down, some people who are otherwise convinced become hesitant and waste time, and some of that group become totally unconvinced.
- bredren 5y agoIn this podcast episode with the founder of conversational AI, he describes the need to make spelling mistakes (and correct them) in order to help establish that the bot is actually a human. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-python-podcast-init/id981834425?i=1000540984207 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-python-podcast-ini...
- dqv 5y agoI think making sublte spelling mistakes is a much clearer sign that someone is human. The imperfection without correction makes it more believable. I still think the hackers could stand to take a creative writing workshop.
- AbrahamParangi 5y agoThe argument is that the hacker’s operational costs are massively dominated by the manual work of social engineering, so they have a huge incentive to filter out people who are less responsive to social engineering. If you accept that some people are more credulous than others, it becomes the best strategy to optimize for only talking to people who believe you.