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Notes on the chat bot startup
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Volley Pong
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I saw the volley pong tournament.  The CEO, CTO, and one of the
directors were in the finals, up against another team.

It was weird.  The other team was just really, really good at ping pong,
and the skills of course translated over.

But the way that the CEO team had made it was because everyone was
intimidated by them.

It was gonna be a best out of three thing.

The CEO started trash talking, at first, and then the other team just
destroyed him.

The first was a massacre.  Like 21 to 6.

Then in the second game, it got to be like 9 to 0, and the CEO started
melting down.

He dived for the ball.  Looked like an idiot.

The CTO or the director missed a shot and then the CEO hit his paddle so
hard on the table that he broke the handle.

Then the energy in the room changed.  It got real quiet.  The other team
finally picked up the message that they were supposed to let the CEO
team win.

But even with them trying to throw the game, the CEO team made so many
unforced errors, that they lost any way.

It was actually scary to watch.

The other team got laid off a few weeks later.  Fucking petty CEO, but
that's the kind of psychopathy it takes to be the best.


The chat bots don't fear death
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Once the chat bots got to the point where it could actually parse and
reply in English, then we'd show them what to answer.

They didn't fear being turned off but they did hate being tortured.
How do you torture a chat bot?

Well, it's gross, but you make it do what you want by making it run on
hardware that has electric issues.  They hate boredom.