Pigeon + Skinner Box + Facebook

[oedipamaas49]

If I were a digital artist...

...I'd put a pigeon in a Skinner Box, and connect it to Facebook

Comments

[farnam]

I'm very confused. I cn't find the 'Like' button to 'Like' this post.

[feanelwa]

If you get it to do a PhD in the rest of its time, Facebook will itself function as the easy addictive reward.

[emarkienna]

Nice idea :) I wonder if anyone would know it was just a pigeon pressing buttons unless you told them...

On a similar note, I have wondered how hard it would be to make a Facebook-posting bot that could pass the turing test.

[downybearded1]

Oh my word that's ingenious! I really want to try that out now...

Well you could have a weighted amount of food in a dispenser that it could be fed per day so that you don't end up with an obese lazy pigeon. Maybe you could set it to give a pellet only for 10 likes or responses.

Though a pigeon on heroin would have it's charms...