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From: cpshelley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley)
Subject: Re: Re: Emergent properties (was: What AI is exactly)
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In article <2711556F.7484@orion.oac.uci.edu> jhess@orion.oac.uci.edu (James Hess) writes:
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>Competing suggestions for further thought:
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>Predicting the future of human society--organized behavior does exist, and we 
>use our recognition of it to guide our choices.  But there are too many 
>variables to model--we must simplify and reduce.  Here we lose much of the 
>variance of the system.

  What?  Nonsense!  Asimov invented it years ago!  Or rather, "Hari Seldon".
It's called: Psycho-history!  :>
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