Re: Technological Singularity

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From: Bernd Paysan
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 00:00

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Patrick Gainer wrote:
> 
> James Sharman <james@exaflop.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> 897063854.14638.0.nnrp-05.c2d9a433@news.demon.co.uk...
> >examples:
> >1) You (being an ordinary human) go to a job interview, you think you have
> >done well only to discover that the job was taken by a superman with an IQ
> >of 400.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what sort of job do you think someone with
> an IQ of 400 would be able to manage without going stark raving
> mad from the tedium?

And which pointy-haired boss would employ anyone who is so obviously
more intelligent than him? The next interview the superman could have
could be about his chair (also the tedium question arises here, too ;-).

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"Late answers are wrong answers!"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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From: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@remove.muenchen.this.org.junk>
Subject: Re: Technological Singularity
Date: 1998/06/08
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