Re: Artificial Intelligence Discussion

In message <9460@zhochaka.demon.co.uk> you wrote:

> In message <970220105046_1779065858@emout17.mail.aol.com>
AEsir@aol.com writes:
> > I recommend reading anything by Vernor Vinge regarding the
implications of
> > super computers in the future and what they and us may become....
> 
> I have.
> 
> The Singularity makes Full Thrust, etc., rather pointless.

Oh I don't know. Ship designs along the lines of Della Wu's ship
in _Marooned in Realtime_ could be fun... (if anyone can figure
out some rules for them!)

And the 'slow zone' in _Fire Upon the Deep_ makes the problem of
not being to FTL out of a gravity well seem rather trivial...

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