Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 18:35:59 05/20/00
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On May 20, 2000 at 17:19:41, ShaktiFire wrote: > >Actually the luddites will be appreciated by more and more people. >Crazy mathematician hermit unabomber plays role of prophet in the >wilderness. Computer dude Bill Joy sees issues. Inventor, software >extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil and CMU robotist Hans Moravec in separate >books published in past year claim strong >AI for computers in 30 yrs, surpassing humans... Actually the machines >have no soul,,, but the scientific trend seems to indicate we don't either. Dear Mr. S, You are correct sir. Of course we are free to think that even ants have souls. As Tesla said, "We are meat machines." It is good to be broadminded but I have had contact with those who think otherwise. In some parts of the world we would be killed for some of the comments we make at this site. It is indeed scary to think that a mere machine would be more "sentient" than the best among us. In any case, the GMs better just get accustomed to being bettered by computers. It won't matter that they ignore the machines (or will it?). When the machines get really sophisticated we may have to worry about the SPCC. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Computers.. Tim Frohlick
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