[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

[Damien Broderick]

On 12/21/2009 3:55 PM, John Clark wrote:

> On Dec 18, 2009 Gordon Swobe wrote:

>> I didn't ignore it, Damien. I just have very little time and lots of
>> posts to respond to, not only here but on other discussion lists. In
>> your post before your last, you wrote something along the lines of
>> "BULLSHIT". (No, I take that back. That's exactly what you wrote.) I
>> don't mind a little profanity, and I didn't take offense, but as a
>> general rule I tend to give priority to posts of those who seem most
>> interested in what I have to say.

> Yes Damien I was shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that you would use such a
> foul word. I fear you have been hanging around with the wrong sort of
> people.

I was shockingly shocked that Gordon's miraculous internal semantic 
engine didn't notice that I was *quoting* the wrong sort of people on 
the list, and that this frightful word had often been applied, by those 
very people, to posts by... me.  :)

Damien Broderick