# 5HC : Perverse thoughts on the Turing Test *The Urth list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 31 Jan 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Raylor *31 Jan 2005, 17:54* Alan suggested that a man could pass as a woman if his typed replies to messages fooled most men into believing him a her. Internal and external states were not mentioned in detail as I recall, he thought them irrelevant. Some problems are undecidable Alana set a different test. --- ### Maru Dubshinki *31 Jan 2005, 20:01 · in reply to Jim Raylor* Ironically, computers and the Internet would bear that out. ~Maru > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 01:54:52 +0000 (GMT), Jim Raylor > wrote: > Alan suggested that a man could pass as a woman if his > typed replies to messages fooled most men into > believing him a her. Internal and external states were > not mentioned in detail as I recall, he thought them > irrelevant. Some problems are undecidable > Alana set a different test. --- ### Chris *31 Jan 2005, 22:57 · in reply to Jim Raylor* I don't see the correlation with the price fluctuations of tea in Chinese markets. > Alan suggested that a man could pass as a woman if his > typed replies to messages fooled most men into > believing him a her. Internal and external states were > not mentioned in detail as I recall, he thought them > irrelevant. Some problems are undecidable > Alana set a different test. > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ --- ### Maru Dubshinki *01 Feb 2005, 12:36 · in reply to Chris* Nor do I perceive any causal or synchronous relation with the market equilibrium for icythoids of recent date. ~Maru Microsoft delenda est. > On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:55:32 +0000, Chris wrote: > I don't see the correlation with the price fluctuations of tea in Chinese > markets. >> Alan suggested that a man could pass as a woman if his >> typed replies to messages fooled most men into >> believing him a her. Internal and external states were >> not mentioned in detail as I recall, he thought them >> irrelevant. Some problems are undecidable >> Alana set a different test. >> >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________ >> ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! >> http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >> _______________________________________________ ---