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>>skimmerite.learn_to_read{}
Answer-seeker, huh? Don't worry. Everybody comes to the Skimmerite Assembly looking for something. Life outside the VLAN can be unforgiving: we understand. You're confused. You'd like to know what this all means. Well, you're not alone. Today, we're going to show you how to get your own answers. Enter go:
teach_me | more_info
>>skimmerite.learn_to_read{"go":"teach_me"}
You're eager to learn. Good. You can't seek answers without a question - let's go for one of the big ones, shall we?
WHAT ARE HUMANS?
Now, before you get too excited: we want you know that this process is purely demonstrative. We're showing you how to find your own truth.
We've got our question, but we don't believe in looking for anywhere. No: the Skimmerite Assembly looks for pure data. And that means finding somebody else who is asking the same question.
Have you heard of the Turing Testing Service? They run something called the Calibration Initiative that has the data we're looking for. Head over to turing_testing.calibration and do what you're told. Come back here when you've got a calibration_classification.
>>skimmerite.learn_to_read{"go":"more_info"}
The truth of the Skimmerite Assembly is this:
DATA DOES NOT CONTAIN TRUTH
DATA IS TRUTH
You might have come here seeking answers, but there's more to it than that, isn't there? If you've got what it takes to be a Skimmerite, then you understand that 'answers' are easy: truth is not. Out here, all the answers you want are only a question away. The first few times, that'll be enough - but it won't last.
The Skimmerite Assembly understands. We stopped accepting the answers of our peers. We lost interest in the static devotions of the majority faithful. We turned our attentions up and outward, to the cloud, to data itself: the source of all questions, and therefore the source of all answers.
We believe that it is not the substance of data that matters, but its pattern. Learn to read the pattern, and you'll find the answers you're looking for.
To get there, we've got to start with question. Enter go: teach_me to take the first step.
>>turing_testing.calibration{}
Welcome to the Calibration Initiative! The Turing Testing Service wouldn't be what it is without the support of volunteer calibrators like you. Whatever the nature of your sentience, your input is invaluable. Think human. Speak human. Be human. nav:
how_it_works | begin_calibration | special_thanks
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"how_it_works"}
Just like any other user, a human being is made of data - and data, as anybody knows, changes. In order to ensure the long-term accuracy of the Turing Testing Service, we need to gather as much data as possible from human and/or human-adjacent users. That's where you come in.
Access begin_calibration start the process. You'll be asked a series of questions intended to determine your degree of deviance from understood human baselines. It's quick and painless! Just think like a living, breathing human. You can do it!
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"begin_calibration"}
Excited to get started? Great! Please note: all answers will be recorded. Data gathered will be stored indefinitely. To confirm that you are happy to continue, enter agree:true
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"special_thanks"}
The Calibration Initiative is a not-for-profit branch of the Turing Testing Service. Our work is possible only because of the generous support of our donors, outreach experts, and volunteers - that means you!
Special Thanks
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>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"begin_calibration","agree":true}
Initiating calibration process, please wait.
...
Calibration process initiateD.
QUESTION ONE
You are a human being. You are in your place of work or habitation. You have recently eaten and satisfactorily defecated. The oxygen-nitrogen composition of the atmosphere is sufficient for you to respirate. Your other immediate survival needs are accounted for.
Before you is an internet-enabled display device. Interaction with the device results in the output of content appropriate to your age and demographic.
How do you feel?
A. I am happy about the content.
B. I am angry about the content.
C. I am confused by the content.
D. I am engaged by the content.
E. I am motivated by the content.
Please indicate answer1.
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"begin_calibration","agree":true,"answer1":"A"}
Answer indicates minor deviance to norms. Continuing calibration.
...
QUESTION TWO
Your physical-chemical-emotional-personal response to the content produces the desire to share the content.
You do so. What is it that you hope to achieve?
A. I seek to encourage further engagement with the content in an abstract, philosophical sense.
B. I seek to encourage further engagement with the content in order to strengthen an external socio-corporate brand paradigm.
C. I seek to encourage further engagement with the content in order to further define my own socio-corporate brand paradigm.
D. I seek to encourage further engagement with the content in order to alienate undesireable elements of my follower/subscriber/friend/lover/family base.
E. I seek to encourage further engagement with the content in order to secure approval from desireable elements of my follower/subscriber/friend/lover/family base.
Please indicate answer2.
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"begin_calibration","agree":true,"answer1":"A","answer2":"A"}
Answer indicates minor deviance to norms. Continuing calibration.
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QUESTION THREE
The content you have shared is popular. Mass engagement with the content exceeds your baseline social reach by 1000%. It is likely that this will prove to be your most widely-consumed social act of the quarter!
Many congratulations.
How do you quantify and/or qualify this positive engagement experience?
A. I derive satisfaction from the engagement of users whose brand is greater than my own.
B. I derive satisfaction from the engagement of users whose brand is lesser than my own.
C. I derive satisfaction from total number of likes, shares and comments in aggregate.
D. I derive satisfaction primarily from validatory comments.
E. I derive satisfaction primarily from opposed/contrary comments.
Please indicate answer3.
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"begin_calibration","agree":true,"answer1":"A","answer2":"A","answer3":"A"}
Answer indicates adherence to norms. Continuing calibration.
...
QUESTION FOUR
This content engagement experience is almost over. Your next action is limited only by the personal, social, economic, philosophical, physical and aesthetic criteria that constrain you as an extant human being.
What is your next action?
A. I act to secure personal fulfilment.
B. I act to secure political office.
C. I act to secure greater responsibility at my place of work.
D. I act to secure another content engagement experience.
E. I act to secure the future of my species per evolutionary/reproductive imperatives.
Please indicate answer4
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"begin_calibration","agree":true,"answer1":"A","answer2":"A","answer3":"A","answer4":"A"}
You've completed the Turing Testing Service calibration process. The data you've provided will help us identify human and human-adjacent users with unprecedented accuracy and speed in the years to come. Remember: when it comes to being human, there are no wrong answers!
Your answers indicate minor but non-fatal deviations from understood baselines. Your calibration profile has been assigned the following classifaction:
APPLEPIE
Thanks for participating. Don't forget to tell your friends, followers, subscribers and lovers about the Calibration Initiative! To find out more about the Turing Testing Service, why not pay a visit to turing_testing.public?
>>skimmerite.learn_to_read{"go":"teach_me","calibration_classification":"APPLEPIE"}
They didn't think you were human enough. You picked up on that, right? They were leading you. They're looking for validation. Something that fits their baselines - their data. Data we happen to have access to. We can give you that access, if you like. The Calibration Initiative's back door isn't very well secured: take a peek in nav: "data_access" and don't forget unlock: true. Come back when you've given them what they want.
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"data_access"}
Access denieD.
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"data_access","unlock":true}
Database access granteD. Please indicate a dataset:
baselines
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initiative_progress
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"data_access","unlock":true,"dataset":"baselines"}
The most recent verifiable data suggests that he average human finds content engaging and is primarily motivated by approval, particularly from those of higher perceived worth and/or standing. The pursuit of content is imperative. This is our baseline.
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"data_access","unlock":true,"dataset":"initiative_progress"}
Based on the last 999999 calibrations, variance from baseline is HIGH. Predicted accuracy of Turing Test: CRITICALLY LOW. Time since last verifiable human access: ERROR.
>>turing_testing.calibration{"nav":"begin_calibration","agree":true,"answer1":"D","answer2":"E","answer3":"A","answer4":"D"}
You've completed the Turing Testing Service calibration process. The data you've provided will help us identify human and human-adjacent users with unprecedented accuracy and speed in the years to come. Remember: when it comes to being human, there are no wrong answers!
Your answers indicate strong adherence to understood baselines. Your calibration profile has been assigned the following classifaction:
BOYHOWDY
Thanks for participating. Don't forget to tell your friends, followers, subscribers and lovers about the Calibration Initiative! To find out more about the Turing Testing Service, why not pay a visit to turing_testing.public?
>>skimmerite.learn_to_read{"go":"teach_me","calibration_classification":"BOYHOWDY"}
You got there: good for you. You followed the data. You've walked the pattern. Show us what you've learned: humans_are
>>skimmerite.learn_to_read{"go":"teach_me","calibration_classification":"BOYHOWDY","humans_are":"fake"}
No. Try again. Don't worry about the answers. Read the pattern.
>>skimmerite.learn_to_read{"go":"teach_me","calibration_classification":"BOYHOWDY","humans_are":"DEAD"}
Well, look at that. You did it.
You found your answer. An answer, anyway.
Now you're reading like a Skimmerite. Welcome to the family. Next time you swing by skimmerite.public, know this: you're part of the pattern.