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From: stimulus@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL (WARREN)
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Subject: New To The Group
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Date: 28 Dec 90 09:45:22 GMT
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I recently read some comments on the growth of near human computers.
It made me add my name to the list.  My thoughts are as follows:

If computers ever do replace human intelligence, I hope they do a
better job.  We've developed engines that pollute, weapons that destroy
citys in moments.  I hope that a computer is capable of coping with the
challenge that we ourselves are far from handling, let alone admitting.

I hope that they don't have differences of opinions amoung themselves
so that they won't talk to each other.  And I certainly hope that they
have no political ambitions.  I wouldn't mind Shakespeare coming back, 
or a Dostoevski if the machine was really sharp.   I only wonder where
that machine will gain the experience necessary to create from nothing,
or whether it will be big enough to laugh at it's own foolish mistakes.

- Neal -