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Article 2987 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: lehman_ds@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Cargo Cult Science
Message-ID: <1992Jan21.195107.133@lrc.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 92 00:51:06 GMT
References: <92Jan15.175909est.14446@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <1992Jan16.061242.21335@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Jan16.190930.14079nagle@netcom.COM> <16814@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <16814@castle.ed.ac.uk>, cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
> In article <1992Jan16.190930.14079nagle@netcom.COM> nagle@netcom.COM (John Nagle) writes:
> 
>>      It's time to build a "slow mouse".  We have the compute power.
>>We have a reasonable fraction of the techniques necessary.  NSF has
>>some money available this year.  So let's get started.
> 
> A slow mouse? You really think that a slow beetle is too trivial to be
> worth bothering with? I must be terribly out-of-date with my reading!
> -- 
> Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
> Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
> 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205
   It's not that a "slow beetle" is too trivial, but the larger we go, the
less BS we get from people who have nothing better to do but nit-pick.
If we build a mouse as opposed to a beetle, we make more people happy and thus
get more money to continue... it's all politics.   :)
   Drew Lehman
   Lehman_ds@mike.lrc.edu


