Re: Yes, but will there still be memes?

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 06:56:04 GMT

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    On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Robin Faichney wrote:

    >The question being, why on earth would AI systems want to think like humans?
    >
    >Or: why would they want to think?
    >
    >Or: why would they want (anything)?
    >
    >I think each of these questions merits serious discussion, but I'm not sure
    >this is the most appropriate forum for it.

    Agreed. Robin, I've also wondered why humans would want to build robots
    that think like humans. After all, we've already got six billion of those.

    Lawrence de Bivort
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