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- From: kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
- Subject: Re: Shouting at robots
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- Organization: The Big Wedge
- References: <JMC.93Jan2141039@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:38:04 GMT
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- In article <JMC.93Jan2141039@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
- |> I hear my 7 year old son shouting "Stop! Stop!" at his robot. You
- |> might consider shouting at a toy robot a singularly futile exercise.
-
- True, but who among us has not shouted at inanimate objects at one time
- or another? I've shouted at cars, lawnmowers, math professors, stereos,
- and even a cement mixer when nothing else I did seemed to get a response.
- As far as I can tell none of them ever listened (except for one car which
- seemed to have a knack for getting me as angry as possible before finally
- giving in), but I still continue to use this method...
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- __ Live from Capitaland, heart of the Empire State...
- ___/ | Jim Kasprzak, computer operator @ RPI, Troy, NY, USA
- /____ *| he who refuses to do nonsense
- \_| is doomed to talk arithmetic.
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