Thus it was written in the epistle of Stan Sieler,
> Ted writes:
> ...
> > Or, alternatively, you could just skip the tricks and really *be* that
> > intelligent.
> >
> > Wirt, there are some of us you ain't never gonna convince :-).
>
> Hmmm...Wirt "works" for AICS (Artificially Intelligent Cybernetic Systems)
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> (if I recall the expansion correctly).
>
> Wirt, backwards, is triw ... could that be "Turing Really Is Working"? ...
> a reference to the famous "Turing Test"?  If "Wirt" is really an
> AICS computer, that would explain many things!
>
> After all...how many of us have met Wirt in person?  Maybe those few who have
> were fooled by an actor hired (over the phone?) by the computer!

Oh, is that why he said I would be disappointed when I met him ;-).  (Actually,
if he's a computer, he's got a pretty good voice module--I've spent some time
on the phone with the same fellow who wrote those messages.  Not only is he
intelligent, he's also pleasant to work with a provides high quality support
with a flexibility which no computer has come anywhere close to matching).

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the
wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error."
The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had
known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst
the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent
anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.
Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand and marshaled
in the order of their magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of
regularity proves to have been latent all along.
                                           -- Galton, [Sir] Francis (1822-1911)