From declanm@netcom.com Thu Sep 28 17:38:24 1995 Return-Path: Received: from po6.andrew.cmu.edu by mail3.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id RAA03700; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:18:49 -0700 Received: (from postman@localhost) by po6.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA09664; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:21:20 -0400 Received: via switchmail for fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:21:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po2.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:19:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netcom6.netcom.com (netcom6.netcom.com [192.100.81.114]) by po2.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA01855 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:19:06 -0400 Received: by netcom6.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id RAA00125; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:19:04 -0700 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:19:04 -0700 (PDT) From: D B McCullagh Subject: RimmJob Blurb in Wired To: fight-censorship@andrew.cmu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: In October issue of Wired, page 58: RIMM JOB `A bogus academic study masquerading as legitimate science. Named after Marty Rimm, author of the dubious "cyberporn" study from Carnegie Mellon University that TIME magazine gullibly took as gospel.' Speaking of Wired, our own Charles Platt has a long interview in there with Hans Moravec, a professor at CMU's Robotics Institute. "According to Hans Moravec, by 2040 robots will become as smart as we are. And then they'll displace us as the dominant form of life on earth." Hmmm... -Declan