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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranormal,alt.conspiracy
- Subject: A Case of Precognition?
- Message-ID: <BzxI3t.D0D@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:33:28 GMT
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
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- I saw the book on Boolean rings myself last week; the back flap has a
- biographical sketch of the author and even a photograph. Alexander Abian
- has indeed taught mathematics at Iowa State, among other universities.
-
- If this *is* the work of an AI team at Iowa State, it will go down as the
- Usenet hoax of the decade. The perpetrators will gain fame, but perhaps
- not the Turing prize -- the human guinea pigs were not even made aware of
- the possibility that they might be conversing with software.
-
- In any case, I await with bemused interest Abian's reply to your calling
- him a computer virus.
-
- I seem to recall that some joker the other day posted something to the
- effect that the Autonomous Belaboring something-or-other AI expert system
- is available for beta-test from Iowa State. Perhaps that is what gave
- you this idea?
-
- With amusement (and best wishes for the new year),
-
- Dale Atems
-
- ------
- Dale Atems
- Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu
-
- No Dale I did not see the information about the AI system from Iowa state
- until you e-mailed me the above information. What actually happened was that
- as soon as I glanced at an ABIAN piece the idea that it was an AI program
- instantly flashed into my awareness - like a telepatype from the future - as
- I fantasize them to be - a kind of mini-Divine Inspiration - Muse as Imp.
- So, perhaps, your message to me above was the future cause whose past effect
- was my posting that ABIAN may be an AI program whose author is that
- modern-day Professor Moriarty - Alexander Abian! It's elementary, my dear
- Atems!
- . .
-