From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 01:02:29 MST
Dear Naughty Pedant,
Ah, the terrible failings of a neural associative/adaptive memory.
Let me re-engineer history in peace!
Maybe we can get Eliezer to write 1433 x 10^27 words on the distinction
between NAI and VNAI and FAI (not the insurance company).
:)
Col
ps I'm in Croydon...I can almost see you from here
pps there's another biblical joke in there somewhere.
*Sunday night, one wine too many. I'd better stop now :) *
* there goes that thread*
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> Sent: Sunday, 24 February 2002 5:52 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: RE: Transhuman Media: The Life of Matrioshka Brian
>
>
> At 05:37 PM 2/24/02 +1100, Colin Hales of Oz wrote:
>
> < an amusing story; ho ho >
>
> which I'll now hijack a bit, with some embarrassment, but I've been
> wondering about this lately:
>
> >becomes a VNAI (very naughty AI).
>
> Australians seem to think that the phrase from the movie is
> `He's not the
> messiah, he's just a very naughty boy.' Where did the `very'
> come from? Has
> this error of emphasis crept in to other English-speaking
> cultures? A quick
> google suggests that it has. Weird, man.)
>
> Damien Broderick
> [a naughty pedant]
>
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