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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 12:31:40 GMT
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In article <MARCUS.94Dec10070836@jetsam.cs.pdx.edu>,
Marcus Daniels <marcus@ee.pdx.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "walz" == Richard Steven Walz <rstevew@armory.com> writes:
>In article <D0JGIE.73v@armory.com> rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes:
>
>I pulled this out of a super-long paragraphless rant.  I agreed with
>the reasoning and the sentiment.  One goof:
>
>walz> People who do terrible
>walz> things are not thinking of the consequences when they do them!
>
>At least prefix it with "most".  It isn't implied by denying free will.
>I'd expect computerized sociopaths.
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I didn't say just "illegal things", and I didn't define "terrible things".
I have a revengeful sense of justness that holds that many bloody and
vicious things are quite quite normal and desirable! But the "terrible"
things I was talking about are such things as nonsensical murders where the
perpetrator really is a few cards short of a deck, or is wired so that he
or she doesn't really make sense to most of the rest of us anyway! Thus,
psychopaths. And yes, I would expect computer psychopaths from being given
spurious programming.
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

