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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: two agendas of artificial intelligence
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James Salsman <jsalsman@bovik.org> writes in a recent posting (reference <55vg5n$hrl@nntp1.best.com>):

>              I'm constantly trying to lower the likely rate 
>of human conflict by eliminating sources of confusion and 
>developing more effective communication means.  I could hardly 
>care less how I interact with machines, as long as it isn't 
>irritating. But I'm terribly worried that people are going to 
>overlook the real spoils of peace in their drive to develop 
>rather trivial human interfacing.
>
I fully agree! There are more pressing concerns than improving
machinery. One of the projects I consider more important (and
yet strangely obliquely related) is universal education in an 
international auxiliary language, so that individual citizens
can simply talk with one another. The inventor of Esperanto
considered the language a tool for peace.  If citizen diplomacy
has a role in the future of international relations, it seems
reasonable to educate the citizens in a neutral language.

A modern spinoff of widespread knowledge of Esperanto would  
be increased ease of computer interface, because its perfect
orthography would allow recognition programs to function at the 
level of phoneme, rather than highly complex mapping at levels of
word and syntax.

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