Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!ailist From: trainor@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU ("Douglas J. Trainor") Newsgroups: mod.ai Subject: a cuppla ai koans Message-ID: <508666082-16621-trainor@PEGASUS.LOCUS.UCLA.EDU> Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 03:08:02 EST Article-I.D.: PEGASUS.508666082-16621-trainor Posted: Thu Feb 13 03:08:02 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 05:46:20 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 30 Approved: ailist@sri-ai.arpa From: "Douglas J. Trainor" from One day SIMON was going to the cafeteria when he met WEIZENBAUM, who said: "I have a problem for you to solve." SIMON replied, "tell me more about your problem," and walked on. =================================================================== from How long would a simulation of its own lifetime survive? What is the rate of change of all metaphors for the viability of that rate? =================================================================== someone resent me Gabriel's old '83 koan : A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front of a Xerox 1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a browser. Wanting to help, the Hacker clicked one of the nodes in the network with the mouse, and asked "what do you see?" Very earnesty, the Undergraduate replied "I see a cursor." The Hacker then quickly pressed the boot toggle at the back of the keyboard, while simultaneously hitting the Undergraduate over the head with a thick Interlisp Manual. The Undergraduate was then Enlightened.