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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: The Real Challenge
- In-Reply-To: alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:36:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <JMC.93Jan23183736@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 18:37:36
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- Was our life impoverished by finding a substitute for the whale oil
- used in lamps?
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- It is conceivable that we shall have to substitute
- for high quality wood, which is indeed being rapidly used up. More
- likely, we will succeed in getting high quality wood from tree farms.
- As long as there is plenty of grain, there is no problem with meat.
- Should we need to devote the present grain land to producing food
- directly consumed by humans, then we can use synthetic carbohydrates
- and bacterial proteins to feed our cattle and chickens. As for fish,
- note that a substantial fraction of the salmon sold is already farm
- raised.
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- As for the inspirational message, when the content is mistaken,
- flowery rhetoric can't save the message.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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