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From: meta@harlequin.co.uk (the ideal copy)
Subject: Intelligent Machinery
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If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever
you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth
its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
  -- Stanislaw Lem, "The Futurological Congress"


mathew
-- 
the ideal copy is the same, the ideal copy has your name
when you can't it makes you can, when you aren't it makes you am

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