Terry Blanton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:17 AM, grok <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [drivel snipped] > > Clear? Clearly I was in error since bots can spell.
Not so fast. It's easy to introduce colloquial spellings and random errors into mechanically generated output, and, in fact, if you wanted to make a really convincing chatterbot that's probably one of the first things you would do. OTOH if you look at the site of the email address of Grok-the-coward-who-hides-behind-a-pen-name, it seems quite unlikely that it's a bot. (I use the pronoun "it" as, given its lack of a typically gender-identifying name, it would be inappropriate to refer to it as "him" or "her".) It hails from resist.ca, a group of Canadian anarchists and socialist. If you look at their "basis of unity" at resist.ca/basis, there's not much on it which most Vorts would DISagree with except the last point, which is the traditional socialist assertion that means of production should be nationalized. Notably, there is nothing in the Basis to indicate that members of Resist.ca should act like retards and attempt to "monkey wrench" attempts at investigating scientific paths not followed by the Establishment, nor is there anything to indicate that sneering at science is a Good Thing. In particular, the tenth point in the Basis, > > Ecology: Humans live in balance with, and are part of, the natural > world. A free society recognizes the right to clean water, clean air > and food free of industrial toxins and genetic engineering. would seem to indicate that the so-called "Grok" is 'way off base in sneering at attempts at finding novel ways to provide clean water to third world countries while simultaneously reducing air pollution. It would also seem to indicate that the so-called "Grok" is pursuing its own agenda without reference to its alleged principles when it casually dismisses attempts at providing basic necessities to people in poorer countries by saying "What they *REALLY* need is ... [political change]", with the implication that they don't need, for instance, efficient and cheap solar ovens, simply because those ovens don't fit with the so-called "Grok"'s political agenda. By interfering with free discussion of scientific principles and non-standard approaches to energy production, apparently because the venue doesn't happen to include discussion of the so-called "Grok"'s political agenda, it would also appear that the so-called "Grok" is acting directly against point 5 of the Basis: > Creativity: A free society values culture, art, and leisure as > fundamental needs. Every person has the right to their own culture and > to practice creative expression. This list is a place where creative expression is practiced, and the so-called "Grok" is working to interfere with that. There is also point three, > Diversity: All people in a free society are different, and space for > their difference is paramount to their equality. The people in this group are diverse. Yet the so-called "Grok" seems to scorn and vilify all those who are different from it, in direct contravention to this principle. Grok, in short, is not only unpleasant and disruptive, but also a hypocrite. >
