From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Sep 06 1999 - 07:30:31 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Remember the first time you ran Eliza, or similar software psychiatrist?
> Did you not soon find yourself telling the computer things you could never
> even tell a human psychiatrist? The real doctor has her medical license at
> stake
> should she ever betray your trust, plus medical malpractice suits, etc, yet
> here you go typing material into a computer that is probably stored permanently
> in the machine, under *your* password, that you *cannot* erase, that can be
> used in god knows how many ways, yet *your internal censorship* routine
> seems to have been turned off. Can anyone explain this?
I tried talking to Eliza once. Nothing happened. It couldn't parse my
replies well enough to ask interesting questions, or even plausibly
human-generated ones.
This either says something complementary about my personality, something
uncomplementary about my self-understanding, or something interesting
about the way I communicate.
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