[extropy-chat] Care Economy?

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Brett Paatsch wrote:

> If a single AI could be constructed in that time period and protected
> by a patent, then copied ad-infinitum, what effect do you imagine that
> would have economically and geo-politically?

Then there'd be an even better reason to get rid of
software patents ;)

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan