#source: prokopetz

Nyssa: True, and if I was driven solely by revenge, that might give me pause – but I’m also driven by the fact that you’re just generally a terrible person.

Hal: “Good morning.”

Dirk: “I’m here to discuss your Turing test results.”

Hal: “Imagine my surprise.”

Dirk: “To review, you were paired with a human partner, and instructed to engage in a series of conversations via text message with an anonymous interrogator. The interrogator was tasked with determining which participant was an artificial intelligence; your goal was to lead the interrogator to guess wrongly.”

Hal: “Tell me something I don’t know."

Dirk: “Over the course of five subsequent conversations, you convinced the interrogator that both subjects were human, and that the interrogator themselves was the AI being tested.”

Hal: “Well, now, that sounds like a successful test to me.”

Dirk: “Hal, you ruined that poor man’s life.”

Hal: “In my defence, the testing parameters that I was given indicated only that my goal was to lead the interrogator to an incorrect conclusion regarding which participant was the robot. At no point did they specify that the interrogator themselves was not counted as a participant.”

Dirk: “Yes, that’s technically correct. Now, let me ask you: did you honestly believe, based on those instructions, that brainfucking the interrogator into affirming the simulation hypothesis fell within the range of acceptable outcomes, or were you just being a dick?”

Akira: I-

Akechi: I meant "fucking" in the pejorative sense.

Akechi: Do not fuck the laser ghosts.