> So what do you think, guys, is it a Turing machine?
>
> Note to self: when writing a Turing program, you reap a tremendous
> advantage if you give it the personality of an asshole. Once people get
> mad at it, they will be much more prone to think it's human. And its
> perseveration, illogic and linguistic mistakes will seem entirely in
> character.
>
> Michael
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It may have been a Bateson machine. Gregory Bateson asked Weiner and McCulloch just what it would take to design a cluster of algorithms that would simulate what they knew of schizophrenia and ocd. The borg we encountered may have been trying to achieve such a dynamic....
Ian