Once while playing Civilization IV, my friend told me he felt a bit disturbed when reaching modern times, with the option of researching Fascism, which he would not take, even if in the gameplay level his country could enter in Police State, build Mt Rushmore wonder, resulting in less maintenance costs in the cities and more happiness for the citizens, and thus advancement of an expansionist strategy.
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It takes no longer than 10 minutes to make up a creature in the Spore Creature Creator and upload it directly from the program to YouTube. The first creature is just a result of clicking here and there to get acquainted with the “intuitive interface”. The second creature is “for real”, that is, I meant to make a nice creature, and the result is this:
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I accidentally found “love” this week.
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The interaction with Eliza-type computer simulations is usually compared to the human-human conversation, no matter if it is understood as a psychological projection as in Turkle, or as an interaction with a limited data-processing machine, as in Dreyfus. Whatever Eliza is, is compared to what a human interaction is, or more precisely, a certain ideal or generalized model of “human” interaction.

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One: hi there, how’s the canadian afternoon? :)
Two: hi… canadian afternoon goes hmmmmm
One: care to elaborate? :)
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