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Re:Ask HN: 2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots by rythie on Friday April 24, 2009 @09:57AM (#577491)
agreed, computers are good at solving math problems or running Turing machines (since they are them). You would be better off with a turing test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test) that only a human can answer - and if any does get a computer to solve it you get them to start a company because they have solved a fundamental computing problem.
Re:Ask HN: 2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots by cperciva on Friday April 24, 2009 @11:23AM (#577607)
Computers are good at simulating Turing machines. Computers aren't good at determining whether Turing machines halt; in fact, it is impossible for a computer to determine in the general case whether a Turing machine will halt.
Re:Ask HN: 2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots by rythie on Friday April 24, 2009 @12:09PM (#577680)
Fair enough, though it might have the effect of not letting humans in either ;-)