Yvain comments on Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Alexandros 10 May 2010 01:25PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (104)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: SilasBarta 11 May 2010 04:06:30PM *  3 points [-]

Yes, and imagine if spammers went through the effort to make an android indistinguishable from a human on the outside (in behavior and form), and had it "spam" you after reading your internet postings/websites, on the pretense that it has some questions and wants to collaborate with you.

Then, it fakes an entire friendship, in which it gives you many useful ideas, in order to be able to slip in a few remarks here and there of the form, "Hey, I know a good Mexican pharmacy where you can get cheap Viagra." (Which you point out to your "friend" is probably a scam.)

If that's what spam comes to look like one day, I don't want a filtered inbox!

Comment author: Yvain 11 May 2010 06:27:28PM 6 points [-]

If that's what spam comes to look like one day, I don't want a filtered inbox!

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1024#comic

Comment author: SilasBarta 13 May 2010 04:03:49PM 2 points [-]

I think it's freaking awesome that someone had already made a comic about that concept.

Comment author: kpreid 13 May 2010 06:32:59PM 1 point [-]