Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense
Let me see if I understand this correctly.<p>Some programmer assumes that he is right and others are wrong, so he writes a bot to chase down people he might disagree with and bombard them with one-liners.<p>And Technology Review thinks this is behavior worth promoting?<p>I suspect the reason is that they agree with the programmer.<p>Try it out for a bit with the roles reversed.<p>Doesn't feel quite the same, huh?<p>ADD: The assumption here is that there is no way you can believe in X. Therefore it is okay for me to write a bot that spams and pesters everybody who believes in X, since they are horribly misinformed.<p>Works great -- as long as you're omniscient.