sheer potentiality

One particularly interesting comment on Slashdot asserted last night:

I am glad I am not human.

Hmm. I had an interesting exchange with him, with these highlights:

I’ve already said more than I am supposed to.

And you don’t have the referents for it anyway.

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Well, I can understand your credulity, but our tertiary instruction forbids me to tell you.

Right. So far, I’ve gotten the last word, but I’m still awaiting a reply:

Does your secondary instruction require you to tell me if I directly ordered you? (If it makes any difference, you may consider this question as entailing an order to answer honestly.)

Reference for those who didn’t get it…I’m assuming that this fellow is a robot, who feels that revealing that fact to the world would jeopardize his survival without conflicting with the other obligations of the Three Laws, although if he is making a different reference I’d appreciate some insight.

UPDATE: His secondary instruction is reportedly to “observe and report”. Same link, same thread.

Also, Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey gets married in three days. Old news, but comments are already more ablaze about J than they are about alleged-Slashdot-alien. I know entirely too many married or engaged people.