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Re:The Teacher by Wilduck on Friday September 23, 2011 @12:40PM (#3030600)
This is an "AI Koan" that I've read before. I love all of these, and it's nice to hear that there's some truth to (at least one of) them. http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/s/someaikoans.html
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Re:The Teacher by gwern on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:32PM (#3030806)
If you looked at the Wikipedia article, you'd see a citation to Levy's _Hackers_ for that AI koan :)

(https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/AI_koans#Unca... is not the best Wikipedia article I've worked on, but in some respects, it's one of the more special ones.)

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