Re: AI: First Chess, now Bridge?

From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Wed Aug 26 1998 - 03:24:38 MDT


>> >>doug, the chess world is still trying to come to grips with the
>> >>situation. the magazines have been verrry quiet about the match...
>
>> Hara Ra wrote: >Reminds me of how the churchmen wouldn't look through
>> Galileo's telescope.
>
>ah, but that was different, hara: the churchmen had direct scriptural
>evidence in acts 1:11. after christ ascended, the disciples were gawking
>after him and an angel appeared and said, "ye men of galilee, why stand
>ye gazing into the heavens?" galileo galilee had a direct heaven sent
>command to knock off the star gazing. could lead to trouble... {8^D spike
>
I am sure somewhere in the Bible there's an injunction against computation.
I await the quotation of pertinent verses....

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