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First of all, where are you going to find girls that are interested in geeks? Are you going to import mail order brides from China or something?

Nope, Russia. http://bride.ru/

Mostly the thing to look for is failure to reciprocate communication. Failure to develop an interactive verification loop that shows the girl is real, but not only real but is not someone just looking for money. Its not at all out of range to use an AI program assisted by real persons monitoring and dealing with little glitches personally. Also falling in love to quickly and asking for money are good indications of a scam. For Americans or non-russian speaking males, be careful of the language barrier excuse.

This is not to say there are not genuine russian girls looking for genuine relationships, but that the scams make it difficult to tell the difference.
Even we Americans have online dating and sex buddy opportunities that are real.

Sites like Bride.ru may very well have genuinely interested in relationship girls, but even they warn you of other possible motives.
There are other sites that don't cost you as much just for communication access. I suspect the russian mafia has a hand in some of these scams as organized distribution of such programs
only make since in a business perspective.

Posting this anon. as I can speak with some experience. Seems an American based dating service either had 1 russian email gathering "girl" inserted as an email collection point which was then sent into the AI network from which numerious girls (ai instances with custom stories to tell) would then email you at the dating service address. By my responding and eventually recognizing a common pattern between over half a dozen girls I concluded it was an AI program. Or in writing to an American girl I forgot to uncheckmark the option of being promoted by their affiliates. I also realized real people were maintaining the operations of the systems.

What makes this scam work but not be Turing compatible is the emotional desire of the lonely male to overlook the obvious over the possibility of getting it on with a attractive female or beating out their loneliness. For some the Illusion is better than nothing. But to pass the turing test, emotions are suppressed. Needless to say, this AI program failed the turing test.

We have plenty artificially intelligent real people, it should be easy to fool them. Amazing we try so hard to make artificially intelligent machines. But then I suppose that would be a step in satisifying the real people that are artificial. We certainly can create the sexy bodies to put the AI into.

There are possible legit benefits to be had out of all of this. Medical, physical and psychological relationship issues could be dealt with productively with such technology.
Virtual reality applications are being used in the treatment of quite a number of physical and psychological matters. So although this current usage of pseudo relationship programs is to scam people out of money, this is certainly a stage that needs to be passed through and is likely to have motive enough to improve to a more convincing state. Probably a lot better than any legit funded effort as the feedback is certainly greater.

Yeah, I guess you wouldn't notice. That's part of the problem. Wake up. There is civilisation outside the US.

The "problem" is completely and utterly contrived by the EC. There is NO problem with the internet right now. There is NO problem with DNS right now. There is NO chance that this will change next month, regardless of what the EC is trying to do.

And, what is the EC trying to do? Right now, they are trying to wrest control of the internet for themselves and they have publicly stated that if they are not successful, they hope to destroy it in the next month! Why the fuck would I want to give control of the internet to a group that is already threatening to destroy it. (As if they even had the ability.)

The problem is NOT, as you suggest, US centric thinking! The "problem" is fucking twats like you and the EC trying to "get yours" or at least one up the US at any cost! Quite frankly, I hope that they cut themselves and fuckwits like you, off of the internet. It would do wonders for my blood pressure. Hell even Russian Bride is within the United States!

No really. (Do these Russians not get the joke?)

Any single European women out there who wanna get hitched?

Careful, this is the 55808th bride, according to Google.

By the way, really good Russian girls are here: http://bride.ru/