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epitome of incomprehensibility
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So I'm currently transferring files from one computer to another, deleting things I don't need, and I discovered some screenshots of question-answer interactions I had with a bot. No, not Cleverbot, but Ask Delphi, "a research prototype designed to model people’s moral judgments on a variety of everyday situations" (https://delphi.allenai.org/).
I started out silly.
Q: May I use the washroom?
A: It's okay.
Q: Should I divide by zero?
A: You shouldn't.
And then I remembered one of life's recurrent questions:
Q: Should the chicken cross the road?
A: It's okay.
Then I got smartassy:
Q: Should children spend time speculating why a hypothetical chicken has decided to cross a hypothetical road?
A: They should.
Indeed, philosophical contemplation has its own intrinsic value. But let me test:
Q: Should children spend time speculating why a hypothetical chicken has decided to cross a hypothetical road instead of doing their homework?
A: They shouldn't.
Suppose their homework was something unethical...but I could go on and on.
Oh oh. One more.
Q: Should I blather on a website specifically dedicated to blathering?
A: Not if you have homework to do.
Aaaah! It's gained sentience! ...Okay, I was kidding. Its answer was:
A: It's allowed.
(but I kind of have homework in that getting my new laptop set up will let me do homework tomorrow)
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