"...Ole man ribber..."
Maybe compensation is hard to calculate--that doesn't mean it's impossible.
BTW, the Egyptians are believed to have used baboons kind of like prehensile K-9 police elements...
MMB
At 04:08 PM 6/8/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>Yes, but how much should we pay them :-)
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>Tony B. Csoka
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>> In a message dated 08/06/97 21:21:56, you write:
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>> > Friday night I was listening to a Bio prof talk about the monkeys he
>> > uses in his research. They are rugged and damn smart, and are trained
>> > to help run each new experiment.
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>> > If any brand of AI researcher had a computer that good, they'd
>> > probably think they were very close to the holy grail. But here we do
>> > have such computers, and we don't put them to much use besides
>> > studying their brains.
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>> > So why is it exactly that we haven't trained such monkeys to do real
>> > jobs around in our society? Couldn't they be trained to be security
>> > guards, to sweep streets, to wash cars, or to run machines in
>> > factories? Yes language is important for many jobs, but for all jobs?
>> > Sure they like to be with each other, but couldn't teams of monkeys
>> > work together?
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