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>From: zeleny@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Robotic Follies
Message-ID: <1992Feb7.110004.8578@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 92 16:00:03 GMT
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In article <1992Feb6.164620.1368@oracorp.com> 
daryl@oracorp.com writes:

>Mikhail Zeleny writes (in response to Ozan Yigit):

MZ:
>> No Thanks, Mr Y: my articles are not written for mostpeople, but only
>> for those capable of understanding. You and your ilk have less in
>> common with the latter than the squarerootofminusone; consequently
>> your invitations, like your limitations, concern me not in the least.
>> Feel free to sink back into the latest and closest approximation to
>> singular prenatal passivity which Artificial Intelligence, in its
>> finite but unbounded wisdom, has successfully impressed on your
>> robotic mind.

DMC:
>Mikhail, it may very well be that people fail to appreciate the
>quality of your arguments through stupidity or through intellectual
>laziness. However, given that *nobody* on this group seems to fully
>appreciate your wisdom, you might condescend to making your arguments
>accessible to the lowly masses, if you desire to be understood. If you
>have no such desire, then it will remain a puzzle as to why you post
>at all. A voice crying in the wilderness, perhaps?

Daryl dearest, *people* have absolutely no trouble appreciating the quality
of my philosophical arguments.  I've had no difficulty whatsoever in
communicating them to Hilary Putnam, David Kaplan, Jeff Dalton, Kit Fine,
Alonzo Church, and Tal Kubo, to name but a few.  While most of my human
interlocutors disagree with some of my intuitively accepted premisses (and
hence with some of my conclusions), not a single one among them has
disagreed with my reasoning.  

On the other hand, mostpeople, pace e e cummings, just don't seem to get it.

As for voices crying in the wilderness, I am not worried in the least.  My
purpose is not to convince the maximum number of people in the shortest
period of time, but to make the issue in question better undestood by a
select few, yours truly included.  Inevitably, along the way, I find that
some people just won't get it, and not for lack of native endowments,
either.  I'm sorry to say that you joined the latter category after failing
to respond in a dignified fashion to a painfully simple, non-technical
argument of Tal Kubo.  Unless you give a definite sign of appreciating the
issues I'm talking about, as well as the appropriate standards of
philosophical argumentation, you may safely assume that I am not addressing
you in any future postings.

>Daryl McCullough
>ORA Corp.
>Ithaca, NY


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