Date sent: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:42:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Dylan Durst <ddurst@levien.com> To: virus@lucifer.com Subject: Re: virus: Technology (was manifest science) Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> > They are self-aware, but rudimentarily so. They can learn a limited
> > microlanguage, but never create one in the wild.
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> Where is the 'wild'? Where does it begin an end? I say that this is a
> silly distinction, and that where we are is the wild also (damn 'skeeters
> bitin' my neck). I say they learned in their environment, which, in this
> case happened to be a lab (i guess, coulda been a sandbox).
>
Howzabout this one? Where we ain't teaching them anything.
>
> - dylan
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