On Friday 17 May 2002 06:14, you wrote:
I think the obvious answer comes from the Church of
the Subgenius:
your first duty as a member is to form your own splinter sect.
By putting each Classic Computer Collector in their own
separate mailing list, we'll reduce the number of offended,
minus those who can successfully argue with themselves
either by virtue of nature, nuture or medication.
Arent there variants of Eliza type programs that can do just that ?
A lefty bot would be easy to program, it would need only
the standard reflexive stack of responses, and need have
no input or sensation of reality.
Raymond
Jimmy Carter said Monday he saw no evidence that Cuba makes
biological weapons. Last year he saw no evidence North Korea
makes nuclear weapons. It doesn't look dignified when a former
president campaigns that openly to be Archbishop of Boston. .
-- Argus Hamilton