The Markov Test
The Turing Test is used to determine whether a program exhibits human behavior. I’d like to propose that we use a Markov Test to determine whether a human being exhibits interesting behavior:
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Train a Markov chain text generator on a sufficiently large corpus of the person’s speech and writing.
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Put samples of the person’s actual utterances and equal-sized samples of the generator’s output in front of a human judge.
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If the human being can’t tell the difference between the two, classify the person as “uninteresting”.
I’m pretty sure that some prominent people would fail to pass this test…