Seems like it’d be pretty easy to come up with an ELIZA-type interface that would make canned “skeptic” responses, and thus keep him occupied indefinitely. Perhaps forever.
You know… in that situation Vinyl, I think it’d be awesome to see a neutral observer who’d never been to the board… certify one or the other as having passed the Turing Test.
“I don’t know… the first one asked some pretty good questions, but the second keeps babbling about “truth” and none of his responses seem to actually answer any questions. Plus it keeps saying that science is bad except when it says it’s good.”
Any money on which one would pass?
IIRC, didn’t he come into a thread about depression, and say that you basically needed what he called “affirmations”, or something like that. And condemned those of us on anti-depressants? Or am I dreaming?
Personally I’m not sure.
Could’ve been Tom Cruise. 