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From: gopal@ecf.toronto.edu (GOPAL  Ganapathiraju Sree Ramana)
Subject: Re: Seen on CNN: SOLOMON--Computer Finds OJ Guilty
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In article <DL9qty.2np@news.thomson-lcr.fr>,
Francois Modave <modave@thomson-lcr.fr> wrote:
>
>pretty sure the same machine build by black people
>who like football will give OJS non guilty and 
>the same created by KKK OJS 1000* guilty...
>indeed it seems that this is the answer of the group
>of persons who created the computer...
>let's give the following problem to the machine:
>is it legal to use a machine to solve legal problems??
>what will it answer??:)))still a turing machine?
>
>Francois

i think a better question will be 
 "is a *machine* capable of *arbitrating* on legal matters?
 or
 "is a *mahine* intelligent enough to decide legal cases?"

(because the answer to the original question is obvious yes
 (1) machine *can* be "used" to solve legal cases, and is
     extensively used already
 (2) and it is legal to use
)

answering the revised questions will pull the machines into
philosophical controversies of set theory.

