amibotornot

TorgoX on 2002-05-26T23:51:59

Dear Log,

[As me and a friend are making fun of some marketroid jibberish...]

<technik> that line is one of the most bereft, content-free I've ever read.
<technik> it's the sort of stuff you get from Markov chains

<TorgoX> it's embedded in piles of other gibberish.

<technik> amibotornot
<technik> we could put real gibberish side by side with generated crap

<TorgoX> Chomskybot!

<technik> spooky.
<technik> it's not much different than my mission-statement maker CGI. Just different input

<TorgoX> yup. Gibberish is a universal (non-)language.

<technik> the scary part is that the phrases and snippets chosen for that chomsky bot really make as much sense as the original

<TorgoX> hehehe
<TorgoX> Chomsky always /did/ want the cliché Western dream of a notation that did all the thinking for you.
<TorgoX> He seemed to assume that stopping thinking was the /first/ step in that process, whereas I'd say it should be the last.