From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 12:32:41 MDT
I don't trust this guy. If he was really on the ball, he'd have named
the mouse "Algernon" in accordance with the long-standing tradition.
"Doogie" indeed!
Speaking of Algernae, of course, I've noticed that memory seems to be
the easiest thing to enhance, in both mice (Doogie) and humans (the
whole cholinergic thing). I repeat my previous guess that augmented
memory trades off with flexibility of memory in some way, possibly even
with the ability to think about symbols consciously and manipulate their definitions.
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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