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Lawrence de Bivort wrote:
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.
T: yes of course, but on the same token, one should also wonder why humans
would want to keep on making children..After all, we've already got six
billion of those..:-)
T.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence H. de Bivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: Yes, but will there still be memes?
> 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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