Closed Poll: Does TDWTF need more bots?
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Continuing the discussion from The Official Likes Thread: On Topic - Especially When It's Off Topic:
Looks like you can get a nice post now without any human intervention. There are officially too many bots.
wait until we get great posts automatically!
No! We have enough bots!
moar bots i hear?
OK!
What do the other forum members think? Have we got enough bots?
- Yes, there's a good number. Let's keep the population stable.
- No, there are too many. We should kill some off!
- No, there aren't enough. We need moar bots!
- What are you talking about? Discourse is bot proof!
- BOTS_NOT_FOUND
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BOTS_NOT_FOUND
and for the record i'm not planning on making more bots.
adding functionality to the ones i have, yes. making more no.
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von Neumann bots?
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MarvinBot will be a thing but he won't be liking everything, since that's not his style.
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Unless we can come up with new ways of making entertaining bots, I really don't think we need any more.
@PythonBot is the only bot left that I want to implement.
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"Is the Bot's post valid Python? Is it a Markov chain? Or is it both?"
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The idea is when summoned PythonBot will attempt to execute the summoned post as a Python script. However I need to get the sandboxed (os namespace and other "dangerous" functions are stubbed out to empty functions) version of PyPy built for Linux and just haven't got around to it.
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Will PythonBot be able to run a bot written in Python?
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I assume that running a bot will not work in the sandbox.
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Theoretically no, one of the other things the sandbox PyPy is supposed to allow is a CPU time limit and RAM limit, so I could force it to kill script execution if it takes longer than e.g. 15 seconds or someone allocates a ton of objects.
I briefly had a non-safe demo of it working. The normal python interpreter would parse out the summon and collect the rest of the post, then save it to a temporary python script file. Then it would launch a new process, starting the PyPy interpreter with the script as a parameter and other arguments to control timeouts etc.
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Dutch language seems to be a barrier to figuring out where the poll is going
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La version Française n'avait pas ce problème particulière.
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@chubertdev - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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So, I loaded this topic and saw the poll was gone, but no edits.
Hard refresh and it's back.
Also, I clicked the bottom reply button, but now it's saying my post is a reply to the post above it, so the @-mention didn't work.
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Fun fact: some people have already proposed the concept of "autonomous agents", bots that have their own reserve of money (Bitcoin, since the other systems won't work without a valid human identity) and can replicate themselves by creating new accounts in cloud services.
The problem, of course, is getting the money. But I suppose for a proof-of-concept you could just have it serve a simple website (maybe a forum?) and accept donations.
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@accalia's next project?
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Can't you just run bitcoin miners on EC² instances?
Filed under: bad and evil ideas thread is somewhere north-east of here, I think
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Can't you just run bitcoin miners on EC² instances?
Filed under: bad and evil ideas thread is somewhere north-east of here, I think
You can but it sucks donkey balls because EC2 are CPU not GPU equipped.
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Thus a bad idea ...
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I don't see where amazon (or anyone) would ever allow that to be profitable.
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I don't see where amazon (or anyone) would ever allow that to be profitable.
Seeing how the small instance is $0, it is technically profitable.
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It's not profitable, but if you are already paying for the VM you might recoup a tiny fraction of the cost with the idle CPU time.
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you might recoup a tiny fraction of the cost with the idle CPU time.
A very, very, very tiny fraction. Think "you might get a penny before retirement, if you're very lucky".