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From: purple on 13 May 2010 05:35
On 5/12/2010 11:06 PM, Don Stockbauer wrote:

Bruce:
>> I can't decide which is funnier: your posts, or Mitch's incoherent
>> responses. You're flinging feces at the zoo monkey, and he appears to
>> be eating them. Did you play around with that automated social worker
>> program back in the 70s or 80s? I can't remember the name, but the
>> game was usually to try to get it to say something amusing, based on
>> its patterns of response. Mitch is only *slightly* more advanced.- Hide quoted text -
>
> Well, I won't argue with you, Bruce, my strategy should be to not
> respond. There's just something about "Mitch". He knows some tiny
> amount of physics, and a few of its terms, and he posts statements
> which are very rarely true and usually false. And I wonder why he
> does it. I mean, he could just as well post "The sun is hot" or "1 +
> 1 = 2" or any one of an infinity of statements, inane pap in other
> words. And certainly he does it for attention, and since I have been
> responding to him I'm to be criticized, and am slowly here weaning off
> him and moving on to other places. What does sort of fascinate me
> though is how such material will be handled in the future. How will
> true from false be sorted out? Will they handle it by deleting all
> that Mitch has ever posted? Or will some sort of AI come through and
> retain his few cogent posts? How do you deal with that type of mess?


His work will be one of the textbook cases of insanity and what happens
when it runs rampant in the public sphere.

How important are the usenet archives? What would be lost if they all
disappeared tomorrow?


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