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- From: sef@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu
- Subject: Re: Petition for withdrawal of NRC report: Computing the Future
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 20:46:58 GMT
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- I haven't yet seen "Computing for the Future", so I have nothing to say
- (yet) about the substantive issues raised by John McCarthy et al. However,
- I'm puzzled by their choice of tactics. Why propose a petition urging that
- the report be withdrawn? If this emminent group of computer scientists
- disagrees with the report, why not just produce their own paper in
- rebuttal, and try to rally AI researchers and policy makers to their own
- views? Why suggest that the original report be suppressed?
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- Did the NRC board try to present "Computing for the Future" as representing
- the views of the CS field as a whole? If so, they are out of bounds; if
- not, then the report just reflects the views of its authors. It seems more
- appropriate to argue the issues with these authors than to try to browbeat
- them into silence.
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- -- Scott
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