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The endgame solution is to let humans judge other humans. In 5 years, you will be interrogated every time you post to HN. The machines are here to make our live

• dmbass 13y ago
  That's not the endgame. Once machines pass the Turing test, it will be impossible to filter humans vs. machines.
  • return0 13y ago
    What if you are interrogated offline? What if the police visits you every 3 months to make sure you haven't turned to a robot?
    • chris_mahan 13y ago
      "The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping." (http://www.trussel.com/bladerun.htm http://www.trussel.com/bladerun.htm)
• Geee 13y ago
  The question is: does it matter whether the participants are human if they are intelligent enough to contribute. I think we'll eventually end up in situation where captchas actually filter out humans :)
  • jordanthoms 13y ago
    Yeah, I've had that weird experience of spambots taking text excerpts and posting it to avoid detection, but it's actually relevant information...
• Keyframe 13y ago
  In 5 years, you will be interrogated every time you post to HN But that's how it already is! :) Eventually spam content will either blend in to be relevant and attractive (we can see hints of it in new youtube ads system, but that's matching to ads only, not generating) or it will be analyzed and scrapped (along with other comments) by other equally intelligent systems. So machines will judge both machines and humans equally I think.
  • ralfn 13y ago
    When it becomes impossible to distinguish computer intelligence from human intelligence, do we really want to stop the computers from commenting? If a computer algorithm can create a more informed relevant comment than a person, maybe i would prefer to see the artificial comment.