From: Gennady Bystritsky Date: 2010-04-02T03:14:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Playing Games with "Ruids" On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Seebs wrote: > On 2010-04-01, Andrea Dallera wrote: >> Please everyone stop feeding the troll (or whatever he is). >> I appreciate the effort but please just leave him alone, he'll run out >> of gas soon. > > I think you're right. > > I'm done; he's established to my satisfaction that he is either trolling > or fundamentally incapable of communication. I hope that, if there was a > good idea in there, it eventually occurs to someone who can use language. > > -s > -- > Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam@seebs.net > http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! > It just struck me that there may not even be a real person behind those Boid/Ruid writings :-). At some point it started feeling like some AI module generated responses that seem crazy but vaguely relevant enough for people to even respond the them and keep the conversation going, getting utterly frustrated on the way. You know, like pick a subject and see how communication with real people on a mailing list would go along, possibly adopting to responders' mood/attitude. And seeing how many people got involved, the technology may be pretty cool after all ;-) Gennady.