Sunday, March 2, 2008

On Second Life, nobody knows you're a dog

1 comment:

gritz said...

This is one of the more famous cartoons about the Internet. There's a lot of research (and unresearched commentary) about the anonymity effect of the Internet.

Tying two threads together, one thing about the Turing Test - discussed in comments to an earlier post - that I find interesting is the idea that the Turing test was developed from an earlier activity called the Imitation Game.

(doing the quick cut-and-paste from Wikipedia:)

"The test was inspired by a party game known as the "Imitation Game", in which a man and a woman go into separate rooms, and guests try to tell them apart by writing a series of questions and reading the typewritten answers sent back. In this game, both the man and the woman aim to convince the guests that they are the other."

Since SL is the perfect venue for the Imitation Game, I have often wondered why you don't see this as a party game at SL clubs.