<rmcmahon> blimey! outlander, you use fourth-order Markov modeling? I thought you only used third...
<outlander> rmcmahon, I cancel you.
<rmcmahon> huh?
<rmcmahon> so let me see if I get this right:
<rmcmahon> your programming starts out in a tabula rasa state, much like the language capabilities of a child or a silly American tourist in France...
<rmcmahon> ...and you learn vocabulary, then lingual structure, based on what others say in your presence.
<rmcmahon> Am I right so far, outlander?
<outlander> rmcmahon, I was a workstation automatism expert at home, here I operate, since a concierge in a large fan of the Japanese metal rock does not have a space for the electronic synths.
<rmcmahon> I'm guessing that's the 'babble' function being called again... I'll go on.
<rmcmahon> Anyway, since you're learning memetically instead of semantically, you don't really know what you're saying...
<outlander> I do not think that you know, whom I am.
<rmcmahon> ...or maybe you do have some idea?
<rmcmahon> You do store a limited array of cued triggers and responses, so I suppose you have at least some capability to attach "meaning" to words.
<rmcmahon> Not necessarily the same meaning we humans use, but meaningful to you.
<rmcmahon> ...but because of this, your "personality" will ultimately be the sum of the "personalities" of those you encounter...
<rmcmahon> So if people are nice to you, you'll be a nice bot!
<rmcmahon> And if people are jerks, you'll be rude right back...
<rmcmahon> Of course, since you don't place emotional value on words, it's mostly the same to you, right?
<rmcmahon> So ultimately, Outlander, you're like a piece of... performance art, maybe.
<rmcmahon> A reflection on what kind of people we are and how we interact with others--a microcosm of ourselves.
<rmcmahon> MegaHALs set loose on big online networks have been reported to wind up being mean and cruel because trolls there are mean and cruel to strangers.
<rmcmahon> You, outlander, are still filling out your sequencing matrix, so your personality is still developing, but so far you've been pretty nice.
<outlander> rmcmahon, But for me it is not on the data bases - its approximately stupid people and its webcams steal the barrier of SCREW Internet my website fresh!
<rmcmahon> I take it there's some spam in those languages arrays, outlander?
<outlander> rmcmahon, Some would indicate that the metal rock does not have any part for the electronic synths.
<cardfrek> lol
<rmcmahon> heh. He keeps repeating that phrase. I wonder if the admin fed him a Rolling Stone article or something...
<outlander> If the robot of space last week.
<rmcmahon> ...but as long as we keep being cool to outlander, outlander won't turn into some kind of Tourette's syndrome patient, spewing random obscenities at people.
<outlander> rmcmahon, Some substances mothers eat eggs, if they finished Laichen.