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   Evelyn C. Leeper to Keith F. Lynch   
   Re: Things I never thought would appear   
   12 Oct 24 20:36:12   
   
   From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/12/24 8:56 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >> Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   >>> Nobody has come up with a task that a person could do but that no   
   >>> computer could ever do.   
   >   
   >> Make a baby?   
   >   
   > I'm not convinced that computers couldn't do that.   
   >   
   > To reach other solar systems may require trips of tens of thousands of   
   > years.  Robot space probes could be programmed to grow human colonists   
   > if and when they get to a habitable planet.   
   >   
   > And even if computers couldn't do that, my point is that it's not   
   > something someone is typically willing to pay someone to do.   
      
   You've never heard of surrogacy or adoption?   
      
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