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In article <1991Dec1.003812.6024@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>In article <1991Dec1.045133.8392@cs.umn.edu> 
>lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance "Cogsworth" Smith) writes:
>
>>[Assorted discussion of the fall from favor of the term "Artificial 
>> Intelligence."]
>
>>Perhaps we should complete the circle and go back to using "Cybernetics". 
>
>Just so those pesky Marxists could again call it "the capitalist whore"?
>

According to my infallible source book on Soviet life: Yawning Heights by 
Zinoviev, cybernetics was eventualy found acceptable by marxist authorities.

	Cybernetics was rehabilitated, along with a whole series of other
	bourgeois pseudo-sciences ... The Newspaper published an editorial
	directive *Cybernetics in the Service of the Ism*.  ...
	The editorial made some minor allusions to certain errors in
	evaluation and to some deviations, but made the direct and
	straightforward statement that true scientific comprehensiion of
	cybernetics was first arrived at by the classic authors of the Ism,
	who, even though they had never heard of cybernetics, had been able
	to leave some appropriate quotations for posterity ...
	Soon on every street there bloomed Institutes and Laboratories of
	Cybernetics ...

>>-- 
>>            Lance Smith                  | "It is a far, far better thing to 
>>        (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)              |  have a firm anchor in nonsense 
>>     "We gladly feast on those           |  than to put out on the troubled
>>        who would subdue us."            |  seas of thought."
>
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>: Qu'est-ce qui est grand, fort, faible...                 doesn't   :
>: Connais pas! Connais pas!                                 think    :
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