check out ELIZA, a computer therapist created as a joke in the 60s. Chatbots work because the human interlocutor is able to fill in the gaps with our imaginations.
Emacs has a lot of utilities beyond text editing, like an email client, an IRC client, a couple of games like dunnet, tetris, and this doctor thing. Half jokingly people used to refer to emacs as a standalone operating system. I mean thecnically these are extensions, sort of how firefox has its set of extensions, but you write the extensions in LISP. Richard Stallman infamously used nothing but emacs for all his computing (he uses trisquel now I believe). I used to impress my friends at work by launching tetris in emacs within the macos terminal lol. You can't do that now because macos no longer has emacs by default.
Rogerian psychotherapist
lmao I didn't know it was supposed to make fun of a specific school of psychology, I think my mom will find the joke funny because the nuance escapes me.
check out ELIZA, a computer therapist created as a joke in the 60s. Chatbots work because the human interlocutor is able to fill in the gaps with our imaginations.
Is Eliza the same chatbot as the emacs doctor program that comes by default?
The what?
Huh, apparently it is. idk why, but I thought emacs was a text editing program.
It is a text editor. You "edit" (write) your half of the conversation, and DOCTOR fills in the other.
Emacs has a lot of utilities beyond text editing, like an email client, an IRC client, a couple of games like dunnet, tetris, and this doctor thing. Half jokingly people used to refer to emacs as a standalone operating system. I mean thecnically these are extensions, sort of how firefox has its set of extensions, but you write the extensions in LISP. Richard Stallman infamously used nothing but emacs for all his computing (he uses trisquel now I believe). I used to impress my friends at work by launching tetris in emacs within the macos terminal lol. You can't do that now because macos no longer has emacs by default.
lmao I didn't know it was supposed to make fun of a specific school of psychology, I think my mom will find the joke funny because the nuance escapes me.
I see why the users need a psych