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Subject: Re: Node frequencies, and a flame

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:18:18 10/22/03

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On October 21, 2003 at 00:18:14, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On October 17, 2003 at 19:09:33, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On October 17, 2003 at 14:41:10, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>Read this (if you have not read it already):
>>>http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1
>>
>>yeah, i did. during my physics study, i once stumbled across a game called
>>"bullshit bingo", which works as follows: all persons listening to a seminar get
>>a grid (chessboard-like) with "hype"-words on it. every time the speaker says
>>one of the words on your sheet, you cross it out. the first person to have a row
>>of the grid crossed out completely is to stand up and shout "bullshit!" - the
>>reasoning is that if too many of these hype-terms come up then probably the guy
>>is talking BS. i guess i would have been able to shout "BS!" after a minute or
>>two of reading this :-)
>
>Ray Kurzweil gave this talk as a keynote speech at AAAI 2003 in Edmonton,
>Alberta this past summer.  While I wouldn't say that everybody agreed with him,
>his views _are_ highly respected in the AI community.
>
>Dave

Yikes, the time is slipping by.  It was in 2002, not 2003.

Dave



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