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- From: bill@cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: Reply to Marc Talbot #2
- Message-ID: <bill.725145198@castor>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:13:18 GMT
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- You of course ignore my disappointment when Beter introduced
- his robotoids, something much more difficult to pull off than
- hovering particle-beam weapons. Any explanation for how
- Russians or Americans could have given robots convincing
- personalities at the highest strata of American public
- politics 15 years ago, when even now, natural language
- understanding and human-like motor control still appear
- to be problems far surpassing our current expectations
- for the next 25 years, especially when one considers the
- state of Integrated Circuitry in 1978?
-
- But then that probably fits into the news letter on how
- the Russians were leaders in high-energy physics without
- having computers.
-
- Nope, Beter blew it. He could have risen to the ranks of
- a Wilhelm Reich or William S. Burroughs, a true underground
- cult conspiracy freak, but he just couldn't gauge the limits
- of his technological posturing.
-
- Too bad he was eaten by tse-tse flies at a reunion for
- Chinese microbiologists. It would be wonderful to have
- him here to talk to in person.
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