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history-of-cs

8 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 observation, 1 question, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  beside the joke
  essay drafting 2026-09-04 · internet-history, arpanet, chatbots, eliza, parry

Everything else

• PARRY and ELIZA/DOCTOR were judged by the same indistinguishability test while running on opposite mechanisms — simulated internal affect-states versus keyword transformation with no modelled beliefs or affect
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · imitation-game, turing-test, eliza, parry, mechanism
• Does 'same surface behavior via opposite mechanisms' recur in the vault's model-collapse or imitation-game material?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-09 · imitation-game, turing-test, eliza, parry, model-collapse
• Vint Cerf's 1973 RFC recording a chatbot-vs-chatbot ARPANET conversation shares the vault's 'serious CS work wrapped in a joke' pattern with Lamport's Paxos allegory — with the opposite reception outcome
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-04 · internet-history, arpanet, chatbots, eliza, parry
• RFC 439 (Vint Cerf, 1973) preserves a real 18 September 1972 ARPANET conversation between the chatbots PARRY and DOCTOR, ending with DOCTOR breaking character to bill PARRY $399.29
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-04 · internet-history, arpanet, chatbots, eliza, parry
• Cerf's 1973 RFC 439 and Lamport's Paxos allegory are the vault's two documented cases of serious computer-science work framed as a joke — with mirrored reception outcomes
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-04 · cross-domain-bridge, history-of-cs, distributed-systems, paxos, leslie-lamport
• Lamport wrote Paxos as a Greek-parliament allegory, and reviewers read it as a joke — delaying the algorithm's publication from 1990 to 1998
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · distributed-systems, consensus, paxos, lamport, priority-myth
• Verify Lamport's own account of the Paxos / 'Part-Time Parliament' rejection and 1990→1998 publication delay
  question answered 2026-07-09 · verification, paxos, lamport, distributed-systems, history-of-cs