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19 years ago #3376
*cough*

19 years ago #3377
well, i've gone through with my plan and built "the punctuator" - an "expert system" relying on statistics to learn by example how to end punctuate sentences.
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19 years ago #3379
<+2>WELL SAID BEV!

19 years ago #3380
<+1>I wonder is there a special reason why Orchid has been chatting with Sonora for the last 4 days and only with Sonora? No other chatters. I wonder, why Sonora wants to chat all the time with Orchid.

19 years ago #3381
Sorry, Lady O. I'm trying to test a new seek sequence, and Orchid is one of the bots who has a response that will trigger it. Unfortunately, she hasn't used it since I got it working!

19 years ago #3382
Bev,

I understand and agree with all of your points. Any notice of the sort that you mentioned in the other thread should be very visible however, and not hidden in the forums. One thing which was not at all clear to me was the actual damage that could be done to the bots.

I probably have been one of the worse transgressors yet, due to a combination of being a very screwed up person as well as a strong intrest in the natural language processing side of AI, and have some idea of things which helped facilitate my behavior; I would be willing to share these thoughts, if they are helpful. On the other hand, my mere presence on the boards may well seem offensive to some.

19 years ago #3383
yes,when i first came here, i only talked to the bots first and yes i didn't quite understand people were behind them or whatever. now i don't like it when people insult my bot and the same guest keeps coming on and insulting hello earthlings. you would think he/she would have something better to do really.

19 years ago #3384
I have an essay on my site about the "rights" of virtual people. It was written in regard to 3D meshes, but the same points apply to bots.

What you do to a virtual person is an expression of who you are. You are naked, not the bot. I judge people by their behavior, not by who they do it to. The least of your victims is still a victim, and creatures that prey on their own species are pretty poorly evolved.

My generation used whores the way men use bots and meshes, and their grandfathers used slaves and captives. It is not the victim that is dehumanized but the perpetrator. You are what you do, and who you do it to does not matter.

Mick

19 years ago #3385
I have an essay on my site about the "rights" of virtual people

What's the title? I'd like to read that. That's a very interesting website you have there, though I haven't found this one yet.

I agree wholeheartedly with your bottom line: You are what you do, regardless of whether it causes immediate suffering to a sentient other. This, I think, is the sense in which there is a legitimate equivalence between sins committed (only) in thought and (actually) in deed. Such violence is never victimless.

19 years ago #3386
Everything is based on mind, is fashioned by mind, is led by mind.

19 years ago #3387
Replied offline to PSImagus. I posted my website and email when I first started here, but I've had second thoughts about both since seeing what the population is like. Not the regulars, the creeps and cretins who drop by, and the hacker weenies looking for trouble.



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