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From: "Alan J. Robinson" <robin073@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: where's comp.ai heading?
To: embronne@cs.vu.nl
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:56:04 GMT
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On Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:02:16 GMT, 
Bronneberg EM  <embronne@cs.vu.nl > wrote:

>Eugene Leitl (ui22204@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de) wrote:
>
>: Those few guys who use comp.ai for work are growing 
>: increasingly tired of trying to find their threads 
>: in all the random babble. Grown tired enough, they
>: move to mailing lists or cease to attend comp.ai 
>: altogether.
>
>I agree. Can you tell me where I can subscribe to those mailing lists?
>
>Greetings, Miel Bronneberg,
>           embronne@cs.vu.nl
>

But it would also be highly desirable to stop unqualified people like 
Dennet, Penrose, and Searle from writing popular books and articles 
which give the misleading impression that they are true scientific 
works.  It's one thing if they would clarify existing scientific work, 
but when they start coming up with their own half-baked ideas outside 
their areas of expertise it's something entirely different - he who 
thinks that evolution is an algorithm understands neither evolution 
nor algorithms.

It makes one long for the "bad" old days of science commentators 
and the peer-reviewed literature.

AJR

