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They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers
I'm Not There (1956) writes "Sociologist Clifford Nass is talking about how people think of their computers as something like human beings. In one of his experiments, Nass found that people are more willing to 'help' computers when the computer helped them previously: 'When people were then asked to help optimize the screen resolution on a computer where the program had been "helpful," they were much more likely to do so than with the less helpful version.' He also found that people evaluating software's performance were more forgiving if the evaluation was done on the same computer the software was tested on. Nass has recently published the book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, in which he 'uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved.'"
Nass has recently published the book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, in which he 'uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved.'
I propose forcing women to think like computers instead of like women. They would be much easier to interact with.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
They bring us free porn on a daily basis!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Like I needed to know how to improve my relationship with machines. What I need is a map to get out of the basement and interact with real people!
Guess this lowers the theoretical barriers to the sexbot market.
We'll see robot girlfriends purposefully installing Microsoft software for the plausible deniability upon contracting a virus.
Wish I could quarantine my W32.Herpes/Worm. :'(
Mr Nass has shown his hand with such an obvious propoganda piece (which I didn't read - its how i keep my mind free of the effects of such manipulations), clearly he is a cylon.....
I'll throw it down a flight of stairs and give them these black and blue smudges on their LCD screens every now and then; but I only do it because I love them, and they have to learn that when I say "bitch, automake me a Makefile," I expect it now and nothing should be reporting to standard error. I'm that machine's user because it wasn't good enough for anybody else.
Why would it be superficial to date a self-aware non-biological machine?
Sounds like uppity biological machine talk to me.
I once tossed a desktop in a river. The water was brackish, so it was fresh at times and salt at others. I fished the computer out after a few weeks. After letting it dry, I put it in from of the other computers. I threatened to do the same to the other computers.
I have not had a problem since with any machine. I am often told that the computer problem just goes away when I go near other people's computers to fix them. I think the computers got the message. Piss me off and I will toss you in the river.
The question remains: Can we do that to congress and not get jail time?
... they hate it when you do that.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky