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    • Why couldn't my robot answer Plinky prompts?

    • After answering 36,499 prompts, I will have honed my writing process to the point where a robot will answer just as I would. Unlike Max Headroom, the robot that compiles my answers would, of course, pass the Turing test, and its answers would be indistinguishable from those of a person. It would never make spelling errors, and every answer would meet my personal criteria:

      1) The answer should have no information that would enable the reader to identify me, my location, or even my gender.

      2) If a prompt merits a personal answer, it should be honest and more than surface-deep, without violating criterion number 1.

      3) If a prompt allows for more, the answer should be creative, the more elaborate the better.

      4) Style should vary from one answer to the next.

      Other desirable features to answers include occasionally inserting derisive references to Michael Jackson, likening most contemporary musical performers to the Pitiful Shags, using an outsider point of view to turn a prompt on its head, and a touch of loopy self-reference ference ference.



       
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