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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
- Subject: There's a computer going up
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.000906.19911@access.usask.ca>
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- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:09:06 GMT
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- Skynet is scheduled to go up in August 1997. That's a scary prospect.
- I don't believe that any system made by man or even man himself can
- tell when it/(s)he will go berserk or bonkers. How come the universe
- appears so orderly? It seems that there is an order that we can't see
- so we say "random", "there's a probability that such and such happens",
- "we cannot be certain of one quantity given certainty of another",
- etc. If we can tap this orderliness, we may be able to have our
- cake and eat it too. Until then, eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow
- you may be dead.
-
- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
-