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Maybe that's why, for the state's inhabitants, the most disturbing feature of recent events is the national media attention. It's the looniest spectacle of all. On the day of Kaczynski's arraignment, as the Freemen opened negotiations with lawmen, I was driving cross-country from New York...
Palumbi's specialty is in the ecology and evolution of marine animals, and he has been innovative in using molecular techniques in areas of marine biology, according to Knoll.
Lenat might say the same, though for less flattering reasons. As far as he's concerned, Brooks is headed down a blind alley, trying futilely to retrace evolution's steps. The simple tricks that made Brooks' earlier, insectlike robots work will never "scale up" to the complexity of human-level...
The idea of harnessing Darwinian evolution to help humans do their programming is gaining currency, especially in the biologically oriented milieu in which Brooks and Maes operate. Farsighted proponents of this school imagine huge populations of digital agents meeting and mating in increasingly complex global networks--creating in their progeny...
This insistence that "bad" speech is a direct cause of "bad" behavior was not new; 19th-century social purists and some leading conservative feminists fought to suppress "vicious" literature, as well as information about contraception. But a century later, the revival of a feminist anti-porn movement coincided with the...