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Re: The True Aficionado?

From jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: The True Aficionado?
Date 2016-02-21 15:48 +0000
Organization "Have EDDT, will travel"
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mentificium@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 7:18:27 AM UTC-8, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> mentificium@gmail.com wrote:
>> > On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 3:11:47 AM UTC-8, gareth wrote:
>> >> <mentificium@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:7b1b2b26-e594-433c-b2bf-963bd4324c24@googlegroups.com...
>> >> > On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 5:33:57 AM UTC-8, gareth wrote:
>> >> >> The True Aficionad is interested in the computer itself as a
wonderful
>> >> >> machine and not in any uses to which it might be put.
>> >> > The True Afficionado is interested in the ultimate
>> >> > apotheosis of the computer which is AI.
>> >>
>> >> Encapsulating your own thinking into a machine is not AI, but
>> >> merely a repository of your own thoughts.
>> >
>> > Very true -- but creating a machine that can think its own thoughts
>> > is Strong AI and a branching of psychological evolution.
>> >
>> So your idea of an AI machine is one
>> whose processes are not reproducible?
>   ^^^^^
> If "whose" applies here (and it does :-)
> thank you for conceding that the AI machine
> is a "who" -- a person.

You are the one with that premise.  Now answer the question.

/BAH

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The True Aficionado? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-18 13:33 +0000
  Re: The True Aficionado? mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-19 20:42 -0800
    Re: The True Aficionado? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-20 11:11 +0000
      Re: The True Aficionado? mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-20 05:06 -0800
        Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-20 15:18 +0000
          Re: The True Aficionado? mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-20 15:11 -0800
            Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-21 15:48 +0000
              Re: The True Aficionado? mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-21 13:43 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-23 13:13 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-23 06:06 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-24 04:40 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-23 09:50 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-24 13:40 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-25 03:14 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-01 13:55 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 01:30 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-02 14:19 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 03:51 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-03 13:39 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-03 16:18 +0100
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 03:52 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-04 13:22 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-04 16:33 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-04 15:47 -0600
                Re: The True Aficionado? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-05 01:04 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-05 13:57 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-06 11:40 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-03-06 23:18 -0600
                Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-04 17:18 +0100
                Re: The True Aficionado? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-03-04 22:09 -0500
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-05 13:57 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-03-05 14:36 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-06 14:08 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Sangmo" <ju410@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 02:03 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-06 17:28 +0100
                Re: The True Aficionado? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-06 11:54 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Sangmo" <ju410@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 07:39 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-06 17:24 -0700
                Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-05 18:43 +0100
                Re: The True Aficionado? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-06 11:34 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-03-07 16:24 -0600
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 03:45 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-03 16:01 -0600
  Re: The True Aficionado? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-20 20:59 -0800
    Re: The True Aficionado? mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-20 23:14 -0800
    Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-21 16:33 +0100
    Re: The True Aficionado? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 03:19 +1100
      Re: The True Aficionado? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-21 08:56 -0800
        Re: The True Aficionado? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-21 12:22 -0600
          Re: The True Aficionado? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 07:50 +1100
            Re: The True Aficionado? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-21 22:49 -0800
              Re: The True Aficionado? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 19:32 +1100
              Re: The True Aficionado? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-22 09:23 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-22 17:17 +0000
              Re: The True Aficionado? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-22 11:30 +0000
        Re: The True Aficionado? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 07:38 +1100

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