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>From: markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden)
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Subject: Re: Robotic Follies (was re: Strong AI and Panpsy
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Date: 7 Feb 92 04:44:20 GMT
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In article <1992Feb5.083637.8495@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>...; however you lack the verve needed to compete with true masters of
>this art.  
>: Mikhail Zeleny                                                     :

The art of being an obnoxious fuck, that is; and Mikhail Zeleny is
a master indeed.

  You disagree with myself, the		mind cannot be reduced to computation.
  mighty Zeleny?  Gad, how do such	
  mindless vermin manage to		
  get access to a computer?  Oh well.	this is my faith.
  I have no time, of course, to		
  answer your arguments, if such	
  trite nonsense may be called		the fervor of my faith is absolute.
  "argument".  How can I be expected	
  to waste my time on childishness	
  like yours, when it is so far		
  beneath my intellect?  However,	
  thousands of lines of festering	
  verbosity will no doubt burst		my intellect labored
  forth from my fuming intellect	
  and pour out onto the net today,	
  as they do every day, and I can	to create an intricate belief system
  certainly manage to devote a		
  few hundred lines to your sorry	
  character and your deplorable		which satisfies my sense
  lack of education.			
					
  Please read the following		of intellectual honesty
  discussion with the upmost		
  care, all three hundred lines		
  of it.  It isn't relevant to		and completely vindicates my faith.
  what you wrote, but who the		
  fuck cares?  If by some		
  miracle you actually managed		
  to understand what I'm presenting	
  here, it wouldn't make any		
  difference that it's			this was no mean feat
  irrelevant to your original		
  points.  You would, no doubt,		
  undergo such a shattering mental	and has impressed
  revolution within you if you		
  were to apprehend the meaning		
  of but a single argument of the	the living shit out of me
  awesome Zeleny, that the utter	
  worthlessness of what you		
  originally wrote would become		with my own abilities.
  clear, even to a simpleton such	
  as yourself.  You would do better	
  to forget everything you believe,	
  and to struggle, however		
  pathetically, to follow in my		
  giant footsteps to whatever		if you attack my faith
  degree your crippled mentality	
  allows.  Clear enough?		
					you must be wrong
  Blah, blah, blah.  And blah.		
  And blah *and* blah!  Clearly		
  you have never read blah.  Read	because my belief system is perfected.
  it.  It's twelve hundred pages;	
  and don't ask me to waste my		
  time presenting a single sentence	
  here as to why it's relevant.		
  Even a belly-crawling slug has	
  enough of a brain to read such	thus the only question is
  a tome and then instantly see		
  precisely which aspects of the	
  ideas contained therein demolish	whether to unravel your miserable web
  your puny arguments.  And read	
  blah too, you ignorant fuck.		
  And blah, and also blah.  What	of arguments which must be fallacious,
  a sorry piece of shit you are!	
  Blah, blah, blah, blah, and blah!	
  Here, here is another dissertation	or whether to simply shit on you.
  from the mind of Zeleny, and it's	
  certainly much more than you		
  deserve.  You won't understand	
  it, but who cares.  This group	
  is full of average dullards who	
  are yet capable of following my	though shitting on you
  words.  The laughter of these		
  multitudes, as they behold your	
  subhuman attempts to comprehend,	is to be preferred
  is all the satisfaction I require;	
  and all the understanding I expect.	
  Not one of them fails to grasp at	because it makes me feel good.
  once the obvious connection		
  between anything I write and the	
  absolute refutation of your		
  misguided attempts to "reason".	
  You didn't flatter yourself into	
  believing that this article was	damn shame i can't find satisfaction
  addressed to you personally, did	
  you?  I have no time to waste on	
  such a lost cause.  Not a single	in a warm intimate relationship
  person with a mind above the level	
  of half-wit fails to read my		
  prose without experiencing a		
  fierce glow of admiration for,	
  and absolute agreement with ...	
  Mikhail Zeleny!			instead.

Mark Corscadden
markc@smsc.sony.com
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