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Article 5433 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: re re ai failures
Message-ID: <1992May6.201601.10052@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 6 May 92 20:16:01 GMT
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In article <1992May6.163335.8117@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson) writes:
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>course 12 people agreed that it was alright for police to beat
>Rodney King, so anything is possible.

  Nonsense.

  12 people agreed that it had not been demonstrated beyond a reasonable
doubt that a criminal statute was violated by the police.  That is a
very different question.

  It also has nothing to do with this newsgroup.

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  May I suggest that you wait until AI has been achieved until you discuss
the ethics of pulling the plug.  It all seems quite premature to me.


