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In reply to the discussion: Why I became an "Obamabot" [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...have no will, no intelligence other than what is given to them at initial start-up or a later upgrade which comes from somewhere else other than the bot. And bots have no personal desires. That's what a ''bot'' is. They just do what they're programmed to do.
Even more important to me are factors like: what are their values, what is their decision-making process, and what kind of person are they?
And how exactly can one do this? From the teevee? From words coming forth from their mouth? How can nothing but a cursory and superficial assessment be made of someone that no one even heard of until a few months before the election in 2008? For example: I didn't know he thought of himself as a Republican.
- Meh. ''Methinks the Lady dost protest too much.''