cstross

foone , vor 2 Tagen

@cstross nah that's normal and fine.

foone , vor 10 Tagen

@cstross I'm hoping I can run Doom on those Bill Gates microchips

foone , vor 15 Tagen

@cstross I've already been joking about AI-jamming techniques being useful when talking to robotgirls, and from my experience with Tumblr, there's a bigger overlap between "girl who is a cat" and "girl who is a robot" than you'd think

cstross OP , vor 25 Tagen

@foone Two words: Leucochloridium paradoxum

foone , vor 25 Tagen

@cstross a good choice!
I was trying to get them horny for the Dicrocoelium dendriticum, the lancet liver fluke.

cstross OP , vor einem Monat

@foone Oh, absolutely! The reason that paper is seminal is because it was probably the very first time the general public had been exposed to the idea of thinking machines as anything other than a plot motor in pulp SF or satire. (Robots, as envisaged in fiction in the 1920s-1940s, don't really count: they're the Tin Man from Oz with added thermionic valves and homicidal tendencies. Actually-existing computers were indeed something new.)

ebel , vor einem Monat

@foone So now I'm wondering what's the moder scientific answer to “How do you tell if this machine is thinking?”, or explorations of that question in modern science fiction.

(Yes I know that question has lots of “What do you mean by “thinking”?”, which is half the fun issue)

@cstross

foone , vor 2 Monaten

@rogerriddle @cstross wasn't he... checks wikipedia Yeah he was raised Christian and stayed one. You were trying to convert someone to the religion he already was!

Landa , vor 2 Monaten

@foone wrong flavor of Christianity for her liking perhaps. @rogerriddle @cstross