Re: Emotional AI (again)

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 23:50:55 -0500


Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> [Damien Broderick:]
> > Just skimmed a rave review, by neuroscientist Keith Oatley in 6 Jan NEW
> > SCIENTIST, of a new book by Joseph Le Doux called, maybe, THE EMOTIONAL
> > MIND or THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN. Oatley adverts to Damasio's DESCARTES' ERROR
> > (Damasio's Error being not to call it DESCARTES'S ERROR), which he (rightly)
> > considers a pretty classy attack on the problem; but he likes Le Doux's book
> > even better. It's all in the amygdala, doncha know. Well, a lot of it.
>
> A common misconception. Descartes' Error is correct; so is Moses'
> Bible. Chalmers's philosophy or Janet Morris's science fiction is
> another matter. You see, *ancient* names *are* apostrophe-only. Modern
> names are apostrophe-and-s.
> --

Sorry, any name naturally ending in s gets an apostrophe only when in
the posessive. I don't know what school of non grammer you learned at,
but that was something I did definitely learn.

-- 
TANSTAAFL!!!

Michael Lorrey ------------------------------------------------------------ President retroman@tpk.net Northstar Technologies Agent Lorrey@ThePentagon.com Inventor of the Lorrey Drive Silo_1013@ThePentagon.com

Website: http://www.tpk.net/~retroman/ Now Featuring: Mikey's Animatronic Factory http://www.tpk.net/~retroman/animations.htm My Own Nuclear Espionage Agency (MONEA) MIKEYMAS(tm): The New Internet Holiday Transhumans of New Hampshire (>HNH) ------------------------------------------------------------ Transhumanist, Inventor, Webmaster, Ski Guide, Entrepreneur, Artist, Outdoorsman, Libertarian, Arms Exporter-see below. ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/local/bin/perl-0777---export-a-crypto-system-sig-RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}