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From: ayl%hutds.hut.fi@FINGATE.BITNET (Antti Ylikoski)
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Subject: knowledge, power and AI
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Date: Sat, 11 Jun 88 19:34 EDT
From: Antti Ylikoski <ayl%hutds.hut.fi%FINGATE.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU
Subject: knowledge, power and AI
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In AIList V7 #6, Professor John McCarthy <JMC@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
writes:

>There are three ways of improving the world.
>(1) to kill somebody
>(2) to forbid something
>(3) to invent something new.

To them, I would add

(4) to teach someone.

It is not enough to *know*.

You also must be able to *do*.

I recommend that Professor McCarthy read Carlos Castaneda's book
Tales of Power.  But be warned - it requires more than intelligence and
knowledge.


Andy Ylikoski