Chap wrote:Doctor Scratch wrote:Why is Simon picking a fight with Blixa of all people?
Because he is not actually a human person at all.
Since coming to this board has been found to be far too dangerous for even the most dedicated human TBM's little pink testimony, NAMIRS has evolved a new breed of LDS chatbots - rather in the same way that the US uses pilotless drones to fly dangerous covert missions in Afghanistan. These wonderful new devices can never be discouraged into apostasy, however often they lose the argument. They just reset after every new crash, and bingo! Off they go again. Even if they did go apostate, the owners could just pull the plug, and the memory would be blanked.
The older types of chatbots like whyme and bcspace simply repeat the same posts over and over again with small random variations. 'Belmont' is however a new model, that operates on the nonpreprogrammed 'neural network' principle. Sometimes these models try out something entirely new at random to see where it will lead - and attacking Blixa was an example of that. If the system is operating properly, it will note the strong negative feedback it has received, and the likelihood of a similar move in future will be greatly reduced.
It's possible that someone will post something better than this today.
But it is unlikely.