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>From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
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Subject: Re: Penrose on Man vs. Machine
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Date: 5 Jan 92 06:54:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu's message of 5 Jan 92 04:48:24 GMT

My friend Dan Foss (unemployed COmparative Historical Sociologist,
author of Beyond Revolution and brilliant individual), has remarked
that if the computer was really intelligent, it would say,
"YOU iterate as I goes from 1 to 10 and I'LL go to the meeting!"

He has also suggested the project of trying to develop artificial
stupidity.

He is fond of pointing out that intelligence tests really measure whether
your socioeconomic status would allow you to live in the same neighborhood
as the shrink who made up the test.

He would express all this quite differently. You can read daily articles
by him on the newsgroup HISTORY (or HISTORY-L) which you can subscribe to via
listserv. The traffic is pretty heavy.
	
Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu



