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Demolishun
3y

Someone mentioned being frustrated with people who answer "either/or" questions with "yes". I figured out why. They are not human. They are a robot and their processing of language is failing.

A simple question:
Q: The car is red or the car is green?
A: Yes

Breakdown:
The car is red. Yes, True
The car is green. No, False
The car is red OR the car is green.
True OR False
True || False = True
True = Yes

So they dissected the language like a computer treating "or" as a logical OR. This proves they are a robot pretending to be human. They failed the Turing test.

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  • 4
    3y
    function reply(question) {
    try {
    var brain = new NLP();
    brain.process(question);
    return brain.getAnswer();
    }
    catch (err) {
    return "yes"
    }
    }
  • 5
    3y
    @highlight won't work because of DevRant's image upload bug
  • 0
    3y
    @AtuM That's kind of writing an if statement without saying where the if braces start and end and where the ones for the else do.
  • 2
    3y
    False
  • 0
    3y
    I'd usually use that answer when I'm equally satisfied with either option, specifying an answer to the question instead of one of the options, e.g. "Would you like to get pizza or sushi?" => yes (I would like to get pizza or sushi)

    This works mainly because people use sloppy semantics and I have very broad preferences...
  • 0
    3y
    I missed some words there. My point is that trying to make a parallel between code and natural language isn't exactly sensible.
  • 2
    3y
    This is not just nerdy thinking. I once travelled with a Japanese guy and when they asked him "do you like coffee or tea", he replied "yes!"
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