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Unread 04-23-2012, 01:09 PM
Dmitri Semenov Dmitri Semenov is offline
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Originally Posted by Uche Ogbuji View Post
...Computers are nowhere near the slightest glimmer of a prospect of replacing the humanities. Not. Even. Close. Mind you, MacCarthy, Turing, and even taking a step back to von Neumann, all these esteemed and brilliant individuals thought that it was just a matter of a few more MIPS and a bit more core storage here and there before computers would be taking over human creative tasks. They lived to admit just how wrong they were.
Dear Uche Ogbuji,

There is still hope --- humans can dumb themselves down to the level of contemporary to them computers. I see it all around.

Dmitri.
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