Re: purpose of AIs

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 01:16:51 MST


At 06:45 PM 12/12/99 -0800, Hal wrote:

>It's not all THAT wise, and smart, and Powerful, but it can pull a pretty
>good bluff, the one-eyed man in the country of the blind.

Actually H. G. Wells's rather bitter point was that the one-eyed man in the
country of the blind was at a *disadvantage*. So she'll be jake, matey.

Damien Broderick



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