Re: ART? Re: Skeptics Take on the Extropian Concept

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp*lib.org)
Date: Sat Feb 28 1998 - 07:09:39 MST


That's absolutely FABULOUS, Anders!
I had no IDEA you .se techies were THAT together.
Hmm. I may have to rethink my biases. :) :)
After all, you guys are good at engineering
_and_ fairy tales... :)

Proud to know you,

MMB

>> Absent art, one branch of which is technology (and I'll fight that one to
>> the _death_, I will), there is nothing worth preserving or enhancing.
>
>It might be amusing to point out that the motto of the Royal Institute
>of Technology (where I reside) is "Science and Art". The two
>essentials of technology.

Bingo. A dumb robot (weak weak AI) could conceivably "do science".
But what could it _do_ with what it had done? :) :)

MMB

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