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eiriasThere is a new toy on LiveJournal. I'm about to try it and see what it does. Consider this fair warning that the next thing I post might not make much sense, or be true.
ETA: That was anticlimactic -- the first two were essentially reposts of single old posts. The one I left up does at least have one good blend sentence. I think the lesson is that my recent public posts are too short to make good random-fodder.
ETA: That was anticlimactic -- the first two were essentially reposts of single old posts. The one I left up does at least have one good blend sentence. I think the lesson is that my recent public posts are too short to make good random-fodder.
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Date: 2007-08-29 03:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-29 04:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-29 05:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-29 05:25 pm (UTC)It did at least use more than two entries, and one of the paragraphs it put up was kind of funny, but on the whole it wasn't worth leaving. You really do need a pretty hefty corpus for these kinds of things to work.
Were you acquainted with DaP yet when babblebot was popular? It ran in one of our IRC channels and we fed it random conversation and it spit merged lines back out in a similar manner. It was often disturbingly convincing, and of course spoke like an amalgamation of DaP, which you can just hurt your brain imagining...
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Date: 2007-08-29 05:30 pm (UTC)And yes! I thought of Babblebot when I figured out how this probably worked (actually, the good thing about its failure in my case, plus the one modest success, is that it made the main mechanism pretty clear). I used to visit #D-a-P and some of its successors a lot, during college and the year after, so I saw a lot of Babblisms. Of course, after
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Date: 2007-08-29 08:10 pm (UTC)I kept a best of babs file. Have a few:
"Prophet!" said I, "Or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore, but the truth that hurts, it's walking barefoot on shattered delusions.
Life love, heaven death. Is that does not kill me makes me
tired also.
God is applied sociology, which is applied chemistry, which
is applied power, which is applied biology, which is applied philosophy, which is applied philosophy, which is a monkey.
...
And have a few conversations with the bot that were particularly fun.
<AlanJ> ,I Live
<Babblebot> but aside from being beautiful, you're not fooling anyone, you'll be stone-dead in a while, in thought.
<Vynce> ,in my best black dress, and my best black shoes.
<Babblebot> A new leaf then tore right through it.
<Beelphazoar> Damn, cheap dress.
<irc> ,Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
<Babblebot> whatever man. Just christen me 'the metaphysical big lebowski'
<Rachel> ,If everyone wore clothes, would you do that?
<Babblebot> I'd give it up for my violet skies. My astral nights, my
peace of mind
<sunmeeeeee> oh, me too.
<Rachel> ,Posit, things will tend toward formalizations and then toward entrenched structures that will try to defend themselves for simple Darwinistic reasons, those that don't vanish, those that do, stay.
<Babblebot> From chaos, order.
<Beelphazoar> ,For each man kills the thing he loves, by all let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter glance, some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
<babblebot> Come with a sword!
<AlanJ> ,I am an individual.
<Babblebot> I am a bot.
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Date: 2007-08-29 08:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-29 09:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-30 02:15 pm (UTC)God is applied sociology, which is applied chemistry, which is applied power, which is applied biology, which is applied philosophy, which is applied philosophy, which is a monkey.
This is the reason I now have tea in my nasal cavity.
I always knew that drinking would get me in trouble one day.