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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!fofp
  2. From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: Re: Halfwits.
  5. Message-ID: <27921@castle.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 10 Nov 92 13:00:21 GMT
  7. References: <1dkcj4INNktk@agate.berkeley.edu>
  8. Organization: Edinburgh University
  9. Lines: 15
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  11. curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
  12.  
  13. >Does anyone know what happened to those guys, anyway?  Have
  14. >they finished decontaminating the crater yet?
  15.  
  16. I had email from one of them. It started promisingly enough. Words,
  17. sentences and everything. A few of the words were even spelt correctly.
  18. It didn't really work out though. They can simulate sentences, but they
  19. can't simulate a conversation.
  20.  
  21. Personally, I blame Searle.
  22.  
  23. >c
  24.  
  25. -- Friends of Fernando Poo For Chris Baldwin For President
  26.