From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Sep 06 1999 - 08:14:30 MDT
It appears as if Spike Jones wrote:
|
|Remember the first time you ran Eliza, or similar software psychiatrist?
Yes.
|Did you not soon find yourself telling the computer things you could never
|even tell a human psychiatrist?
No, I did not.
+ 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 believe ``computer naïve'' users expect computers to have integrity.
One should think about computers as severely tortured humans who will
_everything_ to their masters.
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"Computers know too much."
(Blank Reg in ``Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future'')
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