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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Im memoriam Doug Lenant (1950 - 2023) (Re: Deep Ecology and
 Artificial Intelligence)
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 21:38:48 -0600
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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.