11 Mar
2020
11 Mar
'20
7:10 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:30:46 +0100
Tomasz Rola via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
In a future, all corpos will belong to AIs. And I
guess AIs will be
interested in discovering more about their, hum, ancestry. And they
will be able to track down all remaining shoe boxen with punch cards,
and use hobbyists for mutual fun.
So all that is required is to convince current management that those
old tapes and plans and manuals have great value, which then can be
mined with some "deep CEO", once it inevitably comes. They should
believe it.
Ha, ha, only serious? Sometimes you have to wonder, though, if either
men or machines will care at that point.
jbdigriz
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It takes a mind, always a mind, to abstract meaning from each step through which the
machine is directed by its specific man-built mechanism.
Stanley L Jaki
"Brain, Mind, and Computers"
https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1972/JASA3-72Jaki.html