X-Message-Number: 18110
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:55:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott Badger <>
Subject: Re: HAL?...are you there HAL?

Wm Henderson prognosticates:

[start of excerpt]
The scientists of the day do not even attempt to look
at the data because they know it is impossibly far out
of their comprehension: VAL has, in one month done
what it would take the billion researches 100 years of
catch up schooling even to begin to understand the 
mathematics behind the research. Result, we must just
accept the products of our marvellous VAL. Result, we
are totally dependent on our super intelligent beast.
We have created something that has so surpassed human
intelligence and speed that it puts VAL thousands of
years ahead of us.

We are like peasant farmers trying to work out how a 
television works. Of course our super advanced VAL has
built for us a superb defence system, to ward of the
possibility of invading aliens or meteorites, the
technology of which non of us mere humans can even
begin to understand.
[end of excerpt]

Why wouldn't we just ask VAL do figure out how we can
become as intelligent as it is before it becomes self
aware?

Scott Badger

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