but that's a test to check if you're human

it should tell you to try to solve the CAPTCHA as fast as you can and if you're too fast, you will fail

a computer will be like "hold my beer", solve it really fast and thus fail

if the computer figures out the twist, they would need to guess how slow a human would be

[^1]: maybe this needs some special type of intelligence?

idk, just some funny thoughts

Isn't this why some of the captchas now have a time-you-took-to-complete-it feature? I always take it slow because I want to be mid. 

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Tell me how serious or silly this idea is:

Instead of humans proving that they are a human in a CAPTCHA[^1], what if they tested how well you can “pretend to be a computer”? (Let’s ignore the details of such a test for now.)

I imagine this could theoretically lead to better results because there’s also a twist: if you’re actually good at it and you pass, it means you can’t enter.

So a computer would not only need to be good at pretending to be a human, but good at pretending to be a human pretending to be a machine. And if they are too good and pass, they also fail (you know what I mean lol).

A human however doesn’t even need to understand that there’s a twist. They shouldn’t be very good at pretending to be a computer anyway.

What do you think? 

[^1]: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

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