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>From: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Artificial Stupidity?
Message-ID: <1991Nov6.211216.2804@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 6 Nov 91 08:12:15 GMT
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>From article <1991Nov5.144209.14194@aisb.ed.ac.uk>, by cam@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm):
> Yes, there has been research into artificial stupidity in the UK. This
> was funded as an experimental computerisation of the DHSS (Department of

For more in the same vein check out John Koch's paper in a 1989 issue of
_The Journal of Irreproducible Results_ entitled "Toward the Development of
Artificial Stupidity".  His thesis is, basically, that many of humanity's
problems arise not through a lack of natural intelligence but through an
excess of natural stupidity, i.e. too many people doing too many stupid
things.  If we could make machines which do these stupid things for us then
we would be free to occupy ourselves more intelligently.

The definition of stupidity he uses is:

    "[...]  We believe that stupidity is in evidence when an organism
    takes active self-generated measures that lead to the frustration
    of the goals which those actions were meant to achieve."
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Just my two rubber ningis worth.
Name: Michael Chisnall		email: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz


