lung, meet rewind

[msrewind]

She gets the note just before lunch. She's in the PHQ in less than twenty minutes, then she knocks on Piggot's door politely.

Comments

[mrglam]

"I have no idea who Eliza is."

[thinkering]

"Eliza's a chatbot that parrots your own poorly re-grammared statements back at you with therapist-speak appended."

[mrglam]

"Therapist speak?"

[thinkering]

"Yeah, like 'and how do you feel about insert sentence here' or 'is it important to you that insert sentence here' or whatever."

[mrglam]

"Oh. Yeah that's easier."

[thinkering]

"Much."

[mrglam]

"Eliza sounds a bit obnoxious, though."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, not a very good conversationalist."

[mrglam]

"Might pass a very simple version of a Turing test though."

[thinkering]

"Sure, if a dumb person's administering it."

[mrglam]

"Could be a kid thinking it's a shrink."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, turns out the basic Turing test is easy to pass because humans come in 'really bad conversationalist'."

[mrglam]

"Yup, sometimes they do. I'm harder to fool, though."

[thinkering]

"And the bot is trying to impersonate a specific human, not just any human."

[mrglam]

"Yeah. It definitely can impersonate a generic human perfectly."

[thinkering]

"Mm-hm."

[mrglam]

Sadde takes another piece of cake because. Cake.

[thinkering]

Indeed cake.

Soon they're out of cake!

[mrglam]

"Y'know, I expected to feel different after becoming technically-an-adult."

[thinkering]

"No dice?"

[mrglam]

"It feels like yesterday plus one day."

[thinkering]

"How curious that we aren't biologically predisposed to sudden maturation after a societally-determined number of astronomical events."

[mrglam]

"Eh, it's more that I don't feel... er... socially different? Any freer? Maybe the fact that I'm planning on staying around or that I haven't graduated from the Wards is doing it."

[thinkering]

"Well, you can register to vote."

[mrglam]

"Yyyeah, I can, but I'm not sure that's the best use of my time."