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From: purple on 14 May 2010 13:40
On 5/14/2010 10:58 AM, BruceS wrote:
> On May 13, 5:45 am, "J. Clarke"<jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote:
>> 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 -
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>>>> 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.
>
> Plus a source of humor for many. I'm not trying to get Don (or
> anyone) to stop responding to BURT. The s/n in rom is so low, the ng
> serves mainly as a source of entertainment for those with plenty of
> free time. If I wanted to improve it, I'd start a new thread, with
> some meat to it. Instead, I laugh at loonies and applaud those who
> egg them on. I expect to soon have a lot of free time, so maybe I'll
> do something more valuable then. Or maybe I'll just spend more time
> doing the same things.

Meat? Boiled, broiled, fried, burned, or raw?

The best happenstance here of late was a visit by wandering trolls. They
were fun.
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