(Belated) Dream Journal 2017-03-20: CHAT BOTS!
I’ve been hanging out a lot on @unichrome‘s IRC channel, so it should come as no surprise that I had a dream about the chat channel. And I can think of nothing more thematically-appropriate than using actual transcripts from the chat to describe my dream. Here’s your voyeuristic look into my online chat:
<fish> I actually had a dream about something very similar to that last night <unichrome> oh? <fish> A new nick joined our channel in the dream <fish> They went by the name Naufcham <fish> We chatted for a while and eventually discovered that they were actually a computer program <fish> Not like a chatbot, but like a fully-realized textual incarnation of a human
You’re welcome to join us on #init3 on the freenode IRC server, but please don’t freak out if Naufcham joins the channel. We don’t want to offend our potential cyber overlord.
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Image of the future of consciousness (in all its cheesy glory) taken from here.
