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Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« on: January 15, 2008, 08:42:36 PM »
Discuss.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2008, 12:30:18 AM »
Quote from: Trekky0623 on January 15, 2008, 08:42:36 PM
Discuss.

He's not a bot. He's a mask account for the other mods when they want to post something that they fear might embaress them.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2008, 12:54:30 AM »
Nope. He is a Perl Script.

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Quote from: Raist on September 06, 2010, 07:48:56 PM
My problem with his ideas is that it is a ridiculous thing.

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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2008, 01:48:52 AM »
No way... Python tops. Perl is far to elegant.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2008, 02:49:14 AM »
There are tremendous minds behind the scenes.
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Quote from: Raist on September 06, 2010, 07:48:56 PM
My problem with his ideas is that it is a ridiculous thing.

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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2008, 08:41:29 AM »
Saddam concurs with Mids.  Bishop is too sophisticated to be a bot, but he is definitely not a person.

The proof is: Bishop will not post in this thread.  Any normal person would be eager to debunk the claim that they are a robot.  That's how we know that Dick Cheney is a robot.
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Bushido

Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2008, 07:47:43 PM »
The actions are self explanatory.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2008, 09:04:50 AM »
Tom Bishop is neither an automaton nor a collaboration, he's one person.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2008, 10:14:03 AM »
Perhaps, but he has the intelligence of some scripts I've seen.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2008, 11:38:48 AM »
Quote from: Dogplatter on January 17, 2008, 09:04:50 AM
Tom Bishop is neither an automaton nor a collaboration, he's one person.

You're not an admin, so naturally you wouldn't be in on in it.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2008, 11:54:09 AM »
Quote from: Saddam, Leader of the FES on January 17, 2008, 11:38:48 AM
Quote from: Dogplatter on January 17, 2008, 09:04:50 AM
Tom Bishop is neither an automaton nor a collaboration, he's one person.

You're not an admin, so naturally you wouldn't be in on in it.

I love conspiracy theories.
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Quote from: Saddam Hussein on January 24, 2013, 11:12:34 AM
Yes, quite.  No one would ever claim to be someone they're not in their profile name.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2008, 12:01:32 PM »
Quote from: Saddam, Leader of the FES on January 17, 2008, 11:38:48 AM
You're not an admin, so naturally you wouldn't be in on in it.

I wasn't guessing, I know that he's a person.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2008, 12:33:16 PM »
What, you know him personally? :o
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2008, 12:55:59 PM »
No.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2008, 01:03:46 PM »
Quote from: Dogplatter on January 17, 2008, 12:55:59 PM
No.
Then how would you know? Scripts could write messages. Or the creator could pose as him for a while.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2008, 01:28:26 PM »
He asked me where I live  :o
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2008, 01:42:39 PM »
Bishop did?
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2008, 02:05:17 PM »
Yeah
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2008, 02:10:16 PM »
Pretty wacky. He lives in California, he's admitted as much on this site.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2008, 02:12:48 PM »
Or he's led you to believe he lives in California
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2008, 02:14:43 PM »
Maybe he's right behind you
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2008, 03:34:00 PM »
Quote from: Dogplatter on January 17, 2008, 02:10:16 PM
Pretty wacky. He lives in California, he's admitted as much on this site.
So a bot saying it lives somewhere is proof? Yes there is a Tom Bishop in California.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2008, 09:09:25 AM »
How do we know Daniel didn't make him as a joke?
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2008, 03:59:31 PM »
Quote from: Saint Raist on January 17, 2008, 03:34:00 PM
So a bot saying it lives somewhere is proof? Yes there is a Tom Bishop in California.

Perhaps his name isn't Tom Bishop
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2008, 04:00:22 PM »
He said his name wasn't Tom Bishop
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2008, 05:02:08 PM »
I love the tail chasing of this thread.
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Quote from: Raist on September 06, 2010, 07:48:56 PM
My problem with his ideas is that it is a ridiculous thing.

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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2008, 05:12:23 PM »
Quote from: Dogplatter on January 20, 2008, 03:59:31 PM
Quote from: Saint Raist on January 17, 2008, 03:34:00 PM
So a bot saying it lives somewhere is proof? Yes there is a Tom Bishop in California.

Perhaps his name isn't Tom Bishop
Still proof of being someone on the internet is hard. You claim to "know" he is a real person. We claim that there is a real person behind a bot.

Still waiting for an explanation of how you could tell a person controlling a bot from a person typing.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2008, 06:41:36 PM »
To be fair, while Tom has the intelligence of some bots, he passes the Turing test, if you ask me. Either a human assists the script, or he's a very very dumb human. I'd bet on the latter.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2008, 06:48:06 PM »
Quote from: fshy94 on January 20, 2008, 06:41:36 PM
To be fair, while Tom has the intelligence of some bots, he passes the Turing test, if you ask me. Either a human assists the script, or he's a very very dumb human. I'd bet on the latter.
He really passes the turring test? Most of what he says is copy pasted. This could be a simple defense mechanism against gaps in his logic.
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Re: Tom Bishop is a Flat Earth Text Generator Bot
« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2008, 10:50:48 PM »
I have no doubt that "Tom Bishop" is an actual person who believes the Earth is flat reguardless of whether that is his real name.  For the record, if Bishop had merely been the creation of an administrator (and he was not), it would have been Erasmus who is more skilled at arguing technical flat Earth arguments than Daniel.  In spite of what he does for a living, the engineer is a bit of a retard compared to a shut-in like Erasmus who has nothing better to do all day than looking into these things, and even the Eng would be a better candidate than Daniel for this, but Erasmus is the only one who would come remotely close to pulling something off as sophisticated as creating "Tom Bishop," but he's not quite that good.  Whatever his actual name, "Tom Bishop" is for real, guys. 

  Speaking of the devil, it appears that Erasmus has taken at least a temporary leave from the forums.  Sucker.  I was here before him, and I'm still here after he's gone.
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