A thought.

Perhaps studying the manner in which sites like this one utterly fail to be convincing will help us to develop a better Turing test.

(Go. Look. See if you see what I mean. Then read this, and see if we’re right.)

PS: Don’t give her your email, whatever you do.

—Filed 8474 days ago to Poprocks.

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