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Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers

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From: Mike Spencer
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 21:12
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Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> writes:

> Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>> if we want to get AI right, we may have to develop and get a
>> handle on AS (Artificial Stupidity) first.
>
> This may be something that will be quoted next to Moore's law some day in 
> the future!

Ah, cool.  I can look forward to another few milliWarhols [1] of fame,
should I live so long.

I had a nice little AS program working on a Osborne I, drawing from a
dBase II archive, partially based on the semantics of Tok Pisin, of
political/economic/etc. prounouncements, memes, slogans etc. circa
1990.  Very simplistic method of constructing new assertions of
convincing truthiness value.  Haven't got around to reconstructing it
since I've moved on to Linux.



[1] 1 mW == 15 min * 60 s/min / 1000 == 0.9 sec.  But you already knew that.

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada
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