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From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: Re: Bad AI: A Clarification
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Date: 11 Jun 88 13:49:09 GMT
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In article <1336@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert
Cockton) writes:
>But when I read misanthropic views of Humanity in AI, I will reply.

Do you mean that all your wholesale railing against AI over the last
several weeks (and it HAS been pretty wholesale) is just a response
to "misanthropic views of Humanity?"  Perhaps we may have finally
penetrated to the root of the problem.  I wish to go on record as
observing that I have yet to read a paper on AI which has passed
through peer review which embodies any sense of misanthropy whatsoever,
and that includes all those conference proceedings which Mr. Cockton
wishes to take as his primary source of knowledge about the field.
There is certainly a lot of OBJECTIVITY, but I have never felt that
such objectivity could be confused with misanthropy.  As I said before,
stop biting the fingers long enough to look where they are pointing!