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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
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Date: 1 Nov 88 08:47:55 GMT
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In article <397@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes:
> ... you would need to ... agree that men and women have generally become
> more intelligent over the past 2000 years (note that it is probably *not*
> necessary to pin down the exact meaning of "intelligence" in this
> case).

This is such an extraordinary proposition that I would need to be given
some evidence for it.  More people educated?  Sure.  More people well
fed?  Sure.  Significant change in basic biology?  Pull the other one!