Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!anderson From: anderson@uwmacc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: AI and the Arms Race Message-ID: <560@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 02:46:41 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.560 Posted: Sat Nov 22 02:46:41 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Nov-86 02:03:44 EST References: <2862@burdvax.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 19 Keywords: weizenbaum arms race ethics Summary: Hardly an amateur In article <2862@burdvax.UUCP>, blenko@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Blenko) writes: | Why doesn't Weizenbaum do some research and talk about it? Why is | Waterloo inviting him to talk on anything other than his research | results? No reply necessary, but doesn't the fact that technically- | oriented audiences are willing to spend their time listening to this | sort of amateur preaching itself suggest what their limitations are | with regard to difficult ethical questions? Even as a preacher, Weizenbaum is hardly an amateur! Do be fair. On your last point, I would claim the evidence shows just the opposite of what you claim, namely that technically-oriented audiences are willing to spend their time listening to intelligent opinions shows that they are more qualified than some people think to consider difficult ethical questions. Of course I am an amateur, too -- of life (remember what the word means!). -- ==ARPA:====================anderson@unix.macc.wisc.edu===Jess Anderson====== | UUCP: {harvard,seismo,topaz, 1210 W. Dayton | | akgua,allegra,ihnp4,usbvax}!uwvax!uwmacc!anderson Madison, WI 53706 | ==BITNET:============================anderson@wiscmacc===608/263-6988=======