[PEN-L:186] Re: AI's role in Economics (is there one?)

On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Paul Cockshott wrote: > Louis, you can quote from Searles idealism, so too can > any man, but can you justify it. > Louis: No I can't. I am not an expert on artificial intelligence. I have not kept up the latest developments on neural nets, for example. My only exposure t

[PEN-L:185] Re: AI's role in Economics (is there one?)

Louis, you can quote from Searles idealism, so too can any man, but can you justify it. Searles whole argument rests on the unstated premise that we all know what it means to understand a language and that it is 'obvious' that this is not what a computer is doing. Similarly it rests on an undefin

[PEN-L:184] flight of Mexican capital

I heard about the IMF report on NPR and what surprized me most about it is that they were able to track who the capital belongs to. How is that done? Nancy Breen NIH

[PEN-L:183] Re: IMF REPORT ON MEXICO

In Canada, this was reported in the Globe and Mail (Mexican Investors Blamed for Collapse - Peso Sales Fuelled Devaluation:IMF) [Toronto, 1995 August 22, page B1]. Mike.

[PEN-L:182] Re: IMF REPORT ON MEXICO

Since I haven't seen the IMF report, I can't talk about it. Anyway, what we know here (Mexico) is about the first point Doug mentions: the capital flight was started by Mexicans. I would say the following: 1) Mexican chambers say they were not the ones who took the money out. This might be t

[PEN-L:181] Re: IMF REPORT ON MEXICO

On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, David Barkin wrote: > /* Written 6:50 AM Aug 23, 1995 by dbarkin in igc:bitl.pen */ > /* -- "IMF REPORT ON MEXICO" -- */ > Elaine Bernard reported that a news item appeared in various regional > newspapers BUT not in NY Times or WSJ about the recent report

[PEN-L:180] Re: AI's role in Economics (is there one?)

On Sat, 19 Aug 1995, Paul Cockshott wrote: > Do natural languages lack syntax, do formal languages lack > semantics. Is not the whole of AI concerned with the modeling > of semantics? > Louis Proyect: Imagine that a bunch of computer programmers have written a program that will enable a comput

[PEN-L:179] Re: IMF REPORT ON MEXICO

At 6:54 AM 8/23/95, David Barkin wrote:> /* Written 6:50 AM Aug 23, 1995 by dbarkin in igc:bitl.pen */ >/* -- "IMF REPORT ON MEXICO" -- */ >Elaine Bernard reported that a news item appeared in various regional >newspapers BUT not in NY Times or WSJ about the recent report of IMF

[PEN-L:178] IMF REPORT ON MEXICO

/* Written 6:50 AM Aug 23, 1995 by dbarkin in igc:bitl.pen */ /* -- "IMF REPORT ON MEXICO" -- */ Elaine Bernard reported that a news item appeared in various regional newspapers BUT not in NY Times or WSJ about the recent report of IMF on Mexico. Apparently, it is very critical