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- From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
- Subject: Re: Shouting at robots
- Message-ID: <C0AwDJ.6M2@panix.com>
- Summary: soulless?
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
- References: <C0Au9r.5u5@panix.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:10:31 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- In article <C0Au9r.5u5@panix.com> mtaranto@panix.com (Mark Taranto) writes:
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- >Many have said that it is alright to scream at the robot, because it is
- >a soulless object, like a car, VCR, stereo or a Math Professor.
-
- I should not be mis-subscribed amongst any such "many." I take it
- that the propriety with which robots are shouted at has to do with
- their being (largely futile, imho) technological substitutes for
- servants. Neither should I be read as having any very deep interest
- in the two questions I posed.
- --
- 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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