Re: attacking others through their equipment
phayes@cs.uiuc.edu
Message-id: <199304292125.AA17429@dante.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 16:27:26 +0000
To: pfps@research.att.com (Peter F. Patel-Schneider)
From: phayes@cs.uiuc.edu
X-Sender: phayes@dante.cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: attacking others through their equipment
Cc: interlingua@ISI.EDU
Hi Peter. Ha Ha. It only takes four fingerstrokes to
erase those messages. You probably used up a fair number of
photons, though.
Point (I think) taken: you find this 'philosophical' talk
useless and irritating. OK, a common perspective. However,
theres something important happening here: John Sowa is
trying to influence the design of what might become a
national standard in a very idiosyncratic way, and citing
philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein as vague authorities
for his odd positions on many issues. He will get his way by
sheer number of characters if we all decide we don't want
to be interested in this stuff.
Yours is a common view, by the way, which seems to be that
anything written by someone who is now dead can't have any
importance for AI. I expect John and I are united in disagreeing
with this.
If these messages bother you, don't read them. You should be
able to quickly flush any long message from me or John that
comes your way. I will certainly now do that to any long message
>From you :-)
Pat
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