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 | | Once you can convey the notion of basic computer code, and explain as simple an operation as addition, you have introduced a powerful tool that can be developed, step-by-step, to show increasingly complex processes, even including some aspects of human behavior. |
| | In Minsky's words, "It requires no other concepts because ETI are essentially building it for themselves and experimenting to see what it will do." By sending computer algorithms, we need not develop a foolproof scheme for laying out everything that we want to say. |
| | Both the code and multiple examples of the sort of output that can be generated would be transmitted, but because an element of randomness is included in the program, any sample output would not correspond to any given run of the program. |
| leoalmanac.org /journal/Vol_11/lea_v11_n07.txt (8715 words) |
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