From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 16:36:02 MST
> From: spike66 [mailto:spike66@attbi.com]
>
>>This CNN article describes the handwringing by parents
>>who have discovered that the porn filters they have on
>>their kid's internet connections can be easily defeated:
>>
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/14/downloading.porn/index.htm
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>
>>This gave me an idea for a fun and educational little
>>game we could play...
OK I have thought of an improvement to this idea.
We need some means of anonymizing the contestants,
so as to ensure freedom of speech. If we had a
drop box whereby a contestant could email their
entry along with a self-chosen 5 digit identifier,
the entries could be collected and email address
info removed.
For instance, if someone with an office email @
that does not carry any personal identification
were to post to extropians and volunteer to
collect the essays, and after a couple of weeks
post them with only each essay's private identifier,
we could then run them thru the filters and see
which essays pass thru whose filters. The results
would only be identified by the number. The
winner has the choice of outing herself or just
having the satisfaction of knowing she won.
Also, contrary to the original post suggestion,
do not write about any experience you have had.
Even with the anonymizer, this experiment will
probably work better with fictional accounts.
I even thought of a little Turing test we could
do, to compete human vs computer. Clearly any human
could take a quick look at any text and immediately
tell the difference between a medical article and
even the most cleverly written cryptoporn. But
what if we took both the porn and the articles,
removed all capitalized words, then put the remaining
words in alphabetical order. It would be like seeing
text from the point of view of a computer, flatten
the old playing field. Then do you believe you
could distinguish any better than the machine the
difference between the medical article and the
cryptoporn?
spike
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