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- From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Shouting at robots
- Summary: ahem?
- Message-ID: <C09Ivy.IuE@panix.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 05:21:34 GMT
- References: <JMC.93Jan2141039@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
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- In article <JMC.93Jan2141039@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
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- >I hear my 7 year old son shouting "Stop! Stop!" at his robot.
- ...
- >A $25 prize is offered for the best posting in the next week viewing
- >this development with alarm, i.e. children shouting at robots.
-
- Well, I certainly don't view-with-alarm the shouting-at-robots of
- children (whatever are robots FOR, if not to be shouted at?) But
- two, possibly minor, thoughts intrude:
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- o what DOES one do about robots that do NOT stop when told to?
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- o what DOES Prof. McCarthy intend in the "home education" of
- his son, that a raised voice is (apparently) NOT to be heard?
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- Michael L. Siemon "We honour founders of these starving cities
- mls@panix.com Whose honour is the image of our sorrow ...
- They built by rivers and at night the water
- Running past the windows comforted their sorrow."
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