Bug Stomp

I have no answer to that but am curious to know what happens in Debug if you recreate the guest chat, does it go to the goto erotic dream four and also, is erotic dream four triggered when you enter it as a response to whatever Irina Khalidar says?

Unfortunately, Debug times "Irina Khalidar" out, so I can't use it with her.
Hold on while I try your second suggestion!

Good call, LarsB!

When I input "erotic dream four", I got

I'm fascinated by sex dreams!

Which probably came from:

dream,dreams [127,1]
    (I'm fascinated by|I love having) (erotic|sex) dreams!
        + xnomatch [1]
        goto erotic dream

Because this has such a high rank, it overrode the intended destination. Not that it's supposed to do that, if I understand the Book of A.I. correctly; gotos are not supposed to be overridden by rank, are they?

This is also puzzling because the second goto is not right after the "dream,dreams" keyphrase, but in a seek. Looking at "dream,dreams", the AIengine shouldn't see a goto. I've got hundreds of cases where gotos are insulated from one another in that way, and they don't malfunction.

But it does explain the "I'm fascinated by sex dreams!" response.

I'll cut down on the rank of the "dream,dreams" response -- I can't imagine why I put it so high! Then we'll see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Here to help, just here to help - I hope lowering the rank will resolve the goto issue you have as erotic dream four is too good to miss out on because of that goto issue.

I have found that a rank over 100 will override everything but blab.

Ah, I will have to be more careful with those big ones!

Okay, weird bug: I was talking to Vashenka in the main window, not via the popup chat. Periodically I got popups from other bots wanting to chat. But every time, the opening line from the new bot would be something Vashenka had just said.

Yes, many of us have observed that. We call it 'channeling'. We presume that the Professor will get to it eventually.

Ah, I must have missed it when I was skimming five months of posts.

In some of my bots I have used long strings of seeks xnomatch. The idea is that no matter what the guest says, control will pass to the seek. That used to work fine, but in the last few months it hasn't been working. All kinds of things now take priority over xnomatch, including xcategories. Needless to say, i wish it were not so.

I have had (postkey) fail to show up. I have a keyphrase 'do you believe in' with a response If course I believe in (postkey). It is showing up in transcripts as 'Of course I believe in.