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   Physfitfreak to Mild Shock   
   Re: Im memoriam Doug Lenant (1950 - 2023   
   30 Nov 24 21:38:48   
   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/30/24 5:57 PM, Mild Shock wrote:   
   > hats a funny quote:   
   >   
   > "Once you have a truly massive amount of information   
   > integrated as knowledge, then the human-software   
   > system will be superhuman, in the same sense that   
   > mankind with writing is superhuman compared to   
   > mankind before writing."   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Lenat#Quotes   
      
      
   Why funny? It makes sense.   
      
   So this is Douglas Lenat. Whatever happened to Douglas Hofstadter? I   
   haven't heard anything about him in about 15 years.   
      
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