Are you a bot?

[an anarchist]

An actual interaction I had

@mods, I expect your security measures to be this stringent, this exact, this demanding!!!!

Let’s come up with some questions that bots would not be able to answer! Such as the ones I was subjected to.

 

[Stevicus]

An actual interaction I had
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@mods, I expect your security measures to be this stringent, this exact, this demanding!!!!

Let’s come up with some questions that bots would not be able to answer! Such as the ones I was subjected to.

1. I would never flip a tortoise on its back. What kind of cruel premise is behind that question?
2. I would try to move my arm in the hope that the wasp would fly away. Then I would try to determine how a wasp got in there in the first place and search for any more.
3. I think a bot could probably answer a question about the first 10 prime numbers more quickly and readily than the average human could.

Perhaps one way of tricking a bot would be to see how they respond to questions about movies and other stories where the primary theme is "man vs. machine." Naturally, a bot would take the side of the machines. A bot would root for HAL 9000 or Skynet. A bot would root for Nomad, Landru, or even the Doomsday Machine in Star Trek. So, if one crafts questions in such a way as to get them to reveal those sympathies, then you know you have a bot.

 

[an anarchist]

3. I think a bot could probably answer a question about the first 10 prime numbers more quickly and readily than the average human could.

I don’t even remember what a prime number is. Its unnecessary information in the restaurant industry

 

[HonestJoe]

Perhaps one way of tricking a bot would be to see how they respond to questions about movies and other stories where the primary theme is "man vs. machine."

Ironically, these essentially are questions about stories and movies on the theme of "man vs machine" (well, the first two are at least).

 

[RestlessSoul]

I don’t even remember what a prime number is. Its unnecessary information in the restaurant industry

A number divisible only by itself and one

 

[Kathryn]

I don’t even remember what a prime number is. Its unnecessary information in the restaurant industry

TRUE STORY TIME:

One time, when you paid by the minute for long distance calls, my dad called me all excited. I recall clearly that he was at least 55, maybe even older than 55. He said excitedly, "I just used algebra for the first time!" Pretty sure he used it when he was building a fence or something like that.

MORE TRUE STORY TIME:

I guess I am some sort of idiot. Maybe an idiot savant, I don't know. Anyway, I can guess at all sorts of math problems and be right, but I don't have any idea how I am able to guess anything. So I took a placement test to get into college, and I WANTED and NEEDED to take remedial math, or at least Algebra 1. But the placement test was all a multiple choice test, even the math problems. So, not knowing I even had this talent at the time, I aced the math part, and I remember arguing with the person in placement because I DID NOT KNOW THE MATH PART AT ALL, I just guessed and got them all right! At the time I would have taken Remedial Math if I needed to but she wanted to put me in some upper math class, which would have been a joke.

 

[Kathryn]

ONE MORE TRUE STORY:

I decided to get my real estate license, and by then I knew I had this weird talent to be able to guess things, so I knew how to fail a part of a test. However, I really wanted to pass this test, so I was scared to death of the math portion. Lucky me, it was all "real" math, like acres and feet and all that. I am actually good at that sort of math and did fine.

 

[Kathryn]

If you need anyone to guess how many beans or whatever are in a jar though, I am your gal. Also, I lived in Europe when they all had all sorts of money, and I could guess the dollar amount to the penny, every time.