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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.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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