scott at nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess) told it like it is:
>In article <5317.691T149T990937 at i2k.com>,
> "Lyster E. Wick Jr." <lwickjr at i2k.com> writes:
> On 22-Jan-99 04:04:16 Sean Luke <seanl at drinkme.cs.umd.edu> typed:
> SL> As a guy in his field (AI), you can take it from me. The man is a
> SL> grade-A certified wacko.
>> I accept that his ideas do not fit in with the current mainstream
> AI thinking, but that does not automaticaly, in and of itself, mean
> that he is wrong and you are right, even if he does happen to be
> wrong, and you to be right.
>> Have you given him a fair hearing?
><...>
> In my humble opinion, we should support such serious attempts at
> the presumed-impossible, for we may well find out that some things
> are not so impossible after all, and will surely learn from the
> failures as well, if we're paying attention.
>> Thus, I find what he has to say to be interesting, no matter how
> contrary it may be to current mainstream AI thinking.
>>You're on a long and slippery slope. Everyone seems to follow along
>nodding with the first mentifex posting that they see. It seems
>interesting, different - hey, maybe it's weird enough to succeed!
>>Things look a bit different after the 150th or so posting that you
>see. He posts regularily to comp.arch, for instance.
"Mentifex"/Arthur here. (I can't post as "Mentifex" any more;
my Canadian ISP changed its software.) Yes, I *sometimes* post
to the computer architecture newsgroup, and I cite my Website
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/comparch.html
where I connect the state of comp.arch with Vingean AI, as at
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html
-- what I consider to be the most important document about AI.
> His postings
>never really seem to _say_ much. The best I can say is that he
>appears to be stuck in the "posing college-age cafe dude" stage of
>development, without the ability to break through to the next level
>(going from talking about how things are going to come together to
>_bringing_ them together).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The talk phase is over; even today after
a little more coding I plan on Internet Web Release #21 at URL
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/m-forth.html Mind.forth
>>[Hey, I feel for mentifex, I get stuck in a similar stage every couple
>months. But I try to keep my Usenet postings more varied and
>interesting. :-),]
Thanks for the gentlemanly posts, Mr. Wicks and Mr. Hess. - ATM
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