From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 12:30:10 MST
Dan Fabulich <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu> wrote:
> I can't remember who (Anders? Eliezer?) suggested an interesting way of
> passing the Turing test. Set up only a moderately witty
> conversationalist, maybe ELIZA with a few modifications, that claims that
> it doesn't want to be turned off.
I'm reminded of the muuhrt(sp?) worm episode in Perry Rhodan. There
was this guy who had managed to procure a muuhrt worm in dill sauce,
said to be one of the Galaxy's most valued delicacies. When he
prepared to eat it, the worm tried to talk him out of it, covering
a range of tactics from begging and pleading for its life to claiming
to be poisonous and threatening with the most horrible consequences
its devourer would suffer. This went on for quite some time.
Eventually the worm prevailed. At that point it did a full turn-around
and tried to talk the gourmet--by now completely convinced that
the worm was inedible--again into eating it.
Some wicked humor.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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