Comments on: Wherein we deny all robot-related activity

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:57:13 +0000

I had heard rumors of a secret project at IBM by the folks that created the the chess system, “Deep Blue.”

Now we have PROOF!
“Deep Pockets”

By: markm

markm — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:49:22 +0000

matt, sure, but to enable them to do this job their programming must exclude tort lawyers from the class “human”. Not that I see anything wrong with that. 😉

By: Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:07:18 +0000

This is like Keyser Soze meets The Matrix: The greatest trick the Matrix ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:12:30 +0000

just to make sure ibm programmed walter and ted to follow isaac asimovs rules right?

By: Wm. D. Hodges

Wm. D. Hodges — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:41:17 +0000

As a long time reader of Overlawyered.com, I must say, your robotic skills appear to be intellectually far superior to that of your human counterparts. I will definitely have to remember to congratulate IBM regarding its robotic acronym known as “Walter”.
Since we’re on the topic, can you explain how to most effectively use my MP3 video device?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:17:01 +0000

Backfired! Argh. You robots are wily.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:40:25 +0000

Overlawyered printed your dissenting opinion. We reserve the right to moderate our comment boards. I choose not to post racist remarks, tendentious repetition by commenters who are effectively shouting down other opinions by playing Argument Clinic, off-topic trolling, ad hominem insults, or other attempts to derail conversations; Walter and David each have their own standards. If a commenter is a net negative, I sometimes act as an intelligent Bayesian and just block their comments on sight rather than waste time trying to decide whether to post them. Every legal blogger knows precisely who I'm talking about here. Trial lawyers are influencing national security policy in the Senate, and for the worse. If you have a refutation of my extensive exploration of the subject in the Liability Outlook, feel free to blog about it yourself and I'll link to it and respond. If all you have is name-calling like "tinfoil hat posting" from behind a veil of anonymity, you won't last long in the comments section to my posts.

By: spongeworthy_us

spongeworthy_us — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:23:20 +0000

Not that I ever thought so, I hereby stipulate Ted Frank is not a robot.

But, it appears the overlawyered.com site does in fact automatically, if not robotically, flush any serious dissenting opinion on this blog, such as mine about your tinfoil hat post stating that trial lawyers are influencing US national security policy via the Senate.

I’ll be surprised if this post makes it.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:01:20 +0000

I myself deplore underhanded campaigning. I thought it was a shame when the deserving Howard Bashman slipped to third place in this race, and really have no idea who might have put the pepper spray in his barrister's wig. Probably some pageant volunteer.

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:45:14 +0000

Besides, why would you make a robot look like Walter? http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/2005/11/actroid-receptionist.html