Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: Turing "Test" was Really Alan's Attempt at a Joke

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice and you're AI..."

"I still can't allow you and Cmdr. Poole to jeopardize this mission, Dave."

Machine intelligence

[mcgrew]

I had an idea that might not be so dangerous and pulled out my fone. âoeComputer,â I said, âoewhat's the best way to knock that bitch out?â
The fone said âoeParse error, there are no female dogs on board and âknockâ(TM) is not in context. Please rephrase.â
Who programs these God damned stupid things, anyway? Back when computers were new, science fiction movies had computers that could think. These stupid comp

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[fustakrakich]

âoeComputer,â

What?

I beg all of you... please... stop!

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[mcgrew]

Slashdot needs to get out of the nineties and into the 21st century.

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

'Zactly. There are PILES of PHP and Perl snippet that filter quotes, or allow Unicode.

I have tried typing Russian (Cyrillic) and Persian (Arabic-derived) into the site in the past. Ouch.

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[fustakrakich]

There are ways [ascii.cl] to make a post readable. So what if Slashdot doesn't have unicode, plain old ASCII still works. The machines we work with are still very primitive and fickle. Think of of it as just another Italian car, or British actually, dripping oil all over the place. And please, put at least a minimal effort, and let's not blame the tools we have.

Another CSN song for ya there, JC: If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with...

It wouldn't bother me if this place didn't allow HTML tags

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html [hersam.com]

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[mcgrew]

It wasn't worth the effort, I just cut and pasted from the manuscript. It's bad enough posting journals, I take a bit more care with them.

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[fustakrakich]

It wasn't worth the effort...

Yeah, I noticed. I feel the same way about a lot of things. It's simply a matter of how you want to present yourself. No biggie, I suppose.