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From: J. Clarke on 13 May 2010 07:45
On 5/13/2010 5:35 AM, purple wrote:
> 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?

A vast body of research material for future psychologists.


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