jonathan@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Jonathan Dwyer) (05/24/91)
Just a quick note to let you know: There is a discussion of the sentience of AI constructs going on at present in newsgroup alt.cyberpunk Bye! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Jonathan Dwyer (+61 (07)3656207) - University of Queensland Psychology)| |jonathan@psych.psy.uq.oz.au St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) (05/26/91)
In article <jonathan.675046283@psych>, jonathan@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Jonathan Dwyer) writes: > > Just a quick note to let you know: > > There is a discussion of the sentience of AI constructs going on at > present in newsgroup alt.cyberpunk > > Bye! There is? Best I can tell, the folks there are in a flame war about the merits of Gibson/Sterling, two science fiction writers. The basic idea is this. One guy has said that Gibson is not computer literate (he wrote an award winning book "Neuromancer" which is a technical sci-fi book). It wasn't exactly said in the nicest way. Of course, to make matter worse, peeple started replying back, again, in not so nice terms. Too bad people can't restrain their insults. Nice thing about this group. Calm and rational. -- ____ _ / | __|_| clin@eng.umd.edu | | | harles | in "University of Maryland Institute of Technology" | _| \_____/ |_|\___/