Glen E. P. Ropella wrote: >> Anything that requires significant short >> term memory and integration of broad but scare evidence is probably >> something a computer will be better at than a human. >> > > That's just plain silly in terms of RR's ideas because _humans_ program > the computer. Until/unless we come up with a computer that programs > itself, or a computer that programs another computer, or something of > that sort, computers will _never_ be better at any task than humans. > As you know, one form is Genetic Programming. > I.e. in RR terms, humans are THE canalizing "efficient cause" for any > computer system. > Fine, so let's move on from RR terms. It seems to be a dead end!
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