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>From: lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance "Cogsworth" Smith)
Subject: Re: The Philosophical Foibles of John McCarthy
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Organization: Little Cyberneticists of the Poor
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In article <1991Dec1.003812.6024@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>In article <1991Dec1.045133.8392@cs.umn.edu> 
>lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance "Cogsworth" Smith) writes:
>
>>[Assorted discussion of the fall from favor of the term "Artificial 
>> Intelligence."]
>
>>Perhaps we should complete the circle and go back to using "Cybernetics". 
>
>Just so those pesky Marxists could again call it "the capitalist whore"?

Assuming we could find some Marxists to do so? Nah, I just want to be called 
a Cybernetics Delinquent.
-- 
            Lance Smith                  | "It is a far, far better thing to 
        (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)              |  have a firm anchor in nonsense 
     "We gladly feast on those           |  than to put out on the troubled
        who would subdue us."            |  seas of thought."


