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From: jgharris@express.ca (John Harris)
Subject: Re: AI Heaven
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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 07:43:23 GMT
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cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (

>In article <NV91-ASA.95Nov25165448@merkurius.nada.kth.se> nv91-asa@merkurius.nada.kth.se
Anders Sandberg wrotes:
>>There are already researchers who claim
>>the Net is becoming a global supermind. Never underestimate the power of
>>massive paralellism. 
Yes, I had this notion too. As too the proof of it... well, I've also
had the notion that our solar system is actually like just one atom in
a molecule -a galaxy-sized molecule perhaps...

Chris Malcolm wrote:
>There are plans afoot to connect every teenager in the US to the
>internet by the year 2000. Most of these, considered as individual
>units, are barely able either to understand or to write a coherent
>English paragraph, yet aggregrate them them into one vast world wide
>parallel computational soup and it's almost

>impossible to underestimate
Did you got caught up in saying the opposite of what you meant to say,
Chris.

> what they might achieve.
Or are you saying: valuable hard drive space is being covered with
MUDdata.

>-- 
>Chris Malcolm    cam@aifh.ed.ac.uk         +44 (0)131 650 3085
>Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
>5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205
>"The mind reigns, but does not govern" -- Paul Valery




