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From: jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Turing Test and Subject Bias
Message-ID: <5480@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 89 17:22:27 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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In article <2061@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes:
> From article <5453@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, by jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman):
> > In article <2037@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes:
> > 
> > > IQ runs in my family.
> > 
> > Please do not interpolate that idea:  if you do, then
> > you will be running the risk of
> > 
> > racism ...  1. The notion that one's own ethnic stock is superior.
> 
> I don't know what to make of that.  I think it was sent in anger,
> because it doesn't make sense.  And it looks like an attempt at a
> public insult.  I hope it is not.

Goodness, I was certainly not trying to be offensive in any way,
but the logical extention of one's family is one's race, and
if any person makes that *interpolation* of the concept, they
are racist.  You are not, and I am sorry if I offended you.

I apologize for not making clear that I was trying to provide
and example of a value-system conflict that I was reffering to
in my "Value Systems for AI" post a few days back.

I don't argue that IQ runs in families, but it is also
heavily dependant on environmental factors, and everyone
should be given an equal oppertunity for eduction,
regardless of their family or race.

:jps

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