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From: andrew@berlioz (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head )
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Congratulations! You passed the Turing test
Summary: begging the question
Keywords: Empathy
Message-ID: <381@berlioz.nsc.com>
Date: 7 Jul 89 10:15:52 GMT
References: <3567@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <58049@linus.UUCP>
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In article <58049@linus.UUCP>, bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort) writes:
> In article <3567@lindy.Stanford.EDU> GA.CJJ@forsythe.stanford.edu
> (Clifford Johnson) writes:
>  > One of the computer's conclusions was that I had no sense of
>  > humor, which I still find amusing.
> By the way, one of the more amusing, entertaining, and informative
> computer programs to map one's personality is "The Mind Mirror"
> by Electronic Arts.  It's a repackaging of some of Timothy Leary's
> early work, building on the personality theories of Sullivan and Jung.
> This one is definitely not humorless.

What a pleasure to see a bit of sideways renaissance stuff here.
Some day or other, we'll have to come to terms with humour as part of
the ai object. I have my own ideas about it, but perhaps this is worth
the odd thread. IMHO, it's what's generated when one rubs together two
(or more) disparate contexts, paradigms or ideas. I think it functions
rather like the popular model of sleep, in that resolution on a longer
term and more submerged basis occurs after the fact. Perhaps I'm being
premature; should we use comp.phil.humor? Part of the key must lie in
the disparity of "disparate" as applied in the particular context.
There were two old men in deckchairs......
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