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  1. Newsgroups: sci.environment
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: The Real Challenge
  5. In-Reply-To: srgxbhh@grace.cri.nz's message of Sun, 24 Jan 93 20:33:19 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.93Jan24141448@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <149180366@hpindda.cup.hp.com>,<JMC.93Jan23183507@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  11.     <1k1iraINNbm7@zephyr.grace.cri.nz>
  12. Date: 24 Jan 93 14:14:48
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  15. You won't get a whole treatise out me.  I don't do this much work
  16. for a newsgroup posting.
  17.  
  18. Are you arguing that without such a treatise, we should assume that
  19. the problems cannot be solved?
  20. --
  21. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  23. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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