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I’m Not a Robot

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Re: I’m Not a Robot

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Post by AndroTux »

phito wrote: post #7

Really fun and creative! Currently stuck at 17 (draw a circle) because I'm using a laptop in a car :(

I feel like bots are better at drawing circles than humans. Should have been the other way around: Don't draw a 100% accurate circle

Re: I’m Not a Robot

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Post by npteljes »

inexcf wrote: post #38

Stuck at level 4. "Everything except Mr. Potatohead is a vegetable" is the truth but not accepted. Apparently its some arbitrary definition of "vegetable"

Frankly I expect this of all captchas. I routinely fail the "select all squares with x" types for some reason.

Re: I’m Not a Robot

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Post by npteljes »

cod1r wrote: post #55

I don't know if i should be embarrassed for not knowing what is a fruit and what is a vegetable.

Humanity doesn't seem to have a universally accepted definition for that. Originally, colloquially, all the plants were vegetables that had edible parts. Later fruits and vegetables had their own category, even though many of the fruits are not true fruits, some vegetables are actually fruits etc. It's a mess, as colloquial language usually is.

Re: I’m Not a Robot

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Post by redbell »

As always, you will certainly going to have some fun with Neal :)

Some of the funniest works of Neal that crossed 1,000 points here on HN:

1. Stimulation Clicker (3082 Pts, 8 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611536

2. Design the next iPhone (1463 Pts, 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32567147

3. Space Elevator (1456 Pts, 2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35629972

4. The Password Game (1413 Pts, 2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36493715

5. Absurd Trolley Problems (1296 Pts, 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31996235

6. Infinite Craft (1177 Pts, 2024): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020

Re: I’m Not a Robot

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Post by opensandwich »

sedatk wrote: post #22

I gave up at "Mark all squares of the 64th floor of the Empire State Building"[1]. I had even spent an hour on the chess challenge, but that one looked tasteless if I wasn't missing a trick. I thought that I was supposed to try all the floors close to 64 (considering the topmost one below the tower was 86). I really didn't have the patience for that, especially the possibility of missing to mark an overflowing pixel…

They gave me 2 queens to start with on my second attempt

Re: I’m Not a Robot

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Post by npteljes »

inexcf wrote: post #39
ArekDymalski wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A common mistake is to consider a tomato a vegetable, perhaps it might help.

Nah.A tomato is clearly a vegetable like all the other plant parts. "Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food." All other definitions are just arbitrary and there is no reason why a tomato should not be considered a vegetable.

The definition you cite is also arbitrary, and language changes over time, and over regions.

For what it's worth, I consider tomato a vegetable too, and so, I failed the level initially. Which, to be honest, mirrors my experience with real captchas - I usually have a disagreement with them, regarding what counts as part of the traffic light etc.

Re: I’m Not a Robot

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Post by jansan »

singularity2001 wrote: post #58
jansan wrote: post #27

I got stuck at the level where it asked me this: "You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?"

are the levels still changing I've never seen that

It's a joke. In the original Bladerunner film they are using a so-called "Voight-Kampff" test to find out if someone is a human or a replicant (artifical humanoid), which has a similar purpose as these "I'm not a robot" tests. The quoted question is from a scene where the test was conducted on a replicant, who then shot the interrogator.

Here is the scene (violent at the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIFMwObyst4

BTW, the movie is very worth watching IMO.

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