| kazroth |
04-12-2012 10:58 PM |
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Originally Posted by somnia
(Post 618966)
I'm glad you remember your training. I double majored in computer science and psychology and currently in grad school doing experimental work with machine learning and in particular natural language processing. Since MMORPGs model human interacts surprisingly well I actually use log files from these games in some of my research to collect data to analyze.
That aside and on a less computational level, I've always been fascinated with this concept of trolling and how people carry themselves on the internet. It's interesting to see how people interpret hostility or threat to status in a virtual environment where the aggressor stimuli is entirely fictional. As technology plays an increasingly important roles in our social lives, mapping contrived stimuli to appropriate natural stimuli and triggering correct behavioral responses will be important in human-machine-human interactions.
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Pretty interesting read, actually. I have noticed certain elements of TMO react in different ways to different stimuli, usually in a very specific way. Usual trolling is met with even greater counter-trolling by Autotune, Tiggles, quido... when they can't keep up with the intellectual level of the debate, or can't be bothered to, Alarti and Frieza_Prexus pull themselves into the argument with heftier, well-written, logical, intelligent retorts.
Alarti hovers dangerously in between troll and witty (which I love), whereas Frieza has very detailed, very reasoned and enlightening posts filled with an aura of gravitas - I enjoy his posts the most, and would love to be against him in a debate some day; however, I must say - his avatar is very disconcerting. Whenever I'm reading his posts, I can't help but gravitate toward it... I mean, it looks like Val Kilmer about to have quintuplets. *shudder*
Keep on livin' the dream! |
