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Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

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It's a little more than that; it also incorporates silence detection so that it waits for the caller to finish talking before 'Lenny' plays its next line. But otherwise, yeah, it's just recordings.

It does seem natural that it is a recording with silence detection. What about the process of choosing these specific set of dialogue? It is definitely not chosen arbitrarily as lenny's response blend pretty well with marketer's question. I was imagining some analysis on marketer's most used conversation were done.

The lines are exactly the same for each caller, played in the same order, on a loop. The recordings are obviously tailored for telemarketer scripts, and to string them along and make them think a conversation is going, but there's no dynamic analysis going on.

If that's what you're saying, I apologise for misinterpreting!

Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

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I like it. Because that's also not a paradox, it's just a lie. It can be deceptively difficult to get the wording correct on a paradox.

In the sense that a paradox is self-contradicting, what I wrote is definitely a paradox. Trust me. I always tell the truth, so to speak.

"It's noon in Texas, and it's midnight in Texas." is also self-contradicting. That's not enough for a paradox.
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