Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Thinking Machines Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 90 18:29:52 GMT References: <9^}^-!+@rpi.edu> <7432@castle.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <7432@castle.ed.ac.uk> ercn67@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes: > With this sort of possibility, it could be very dangerous to have a > non-sentient system running World economics. Quite seriously, I'd like to raise the question: in what way would that differ from the current situation? Do you perhaps think the market is self-aware? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com