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by aruggirello 3905 days ago
He's a human pretending to be a computer pretending to be a human.
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This is a computer pretending to be a human pretending to be a computer pretending to be a human.

Am I just being silly? I assure you, I am not!

I am looking at a computer screen at this very moment. I do not see any humans in front of me. I am at home, it is past 3AM, and even my dogs have gone to bed by now.

(Why am I up so late? Debugging, of course!)

Everything I see on this screen right now comes from a computer. Any pretense past that is beyond my knowledge.

So, whatever I see, it's a computer pretending to be...

What about a video of a computer playing a video of someone interacting with the system in the article?