Re: anachronisms?

: bernardz <bernardz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: The difficulty in making AI is something that the science fiction
: writers completely missed. In Robert A. Heinlein's book "The Moon Is a
: Harsh Mistress" just make a big enough computer and it will become an
AI.

Well, that was Manny's hypothesis.  I'm not sure it was really
established.  Of course, he repeated much the same thing in tNotB.

: It is something till Penrose that generally no one expected. 

What's the "it" here?   The only seemingly-appropriate "it" seems
to be "large enough computer will AI-ize itself automagically".
But Penrose seems to think that's NOT the case.
Unless I've missed something.


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