From: cjdcosta@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER J DCOSTA)
Subject: Re: T: To All MENSA Members...
Originator: cjdcosta@zepplin.ece.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: cjdcosta@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER J DCOSTA)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:32:04 GMT


scott@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Andrew Tai) writes:

>Organization: NCSU Artificial Intelligence Systems Laboratory
>
>[...]
>
>     You might ask yourself, "Why is this guy going on like this?"  I 
>really believe that you guys deserve to be kicked in the ass every now
>and then by someone who studies the brain scientifically.

For heaven's sake, give us a break. Please. There is NO " NCSU Artificial 
Intelligence Systems Laboratory".  There is NO "ailab.ncsu.edu". If there
were, and you were an AI student like you claim, you would know that there
is NO research being done by the AI group at NCSU into "studying the brain
scientifically". The only branch of AI that might border on studying the 
brain would be the Connectionist/neural net area, and even there the work is 
marginal. 

In any case, I moderate the Connectionist/neural network bulletin board site 
here at NCSU and am also on the program committee of the Triangle Area Neural 
Network society. I work with the AI/NN people at NCSU and cannot imagine you 
being one of them. If you must fake your identity, at least do a good job of 
it. Maybe if you changed into a tai@psycholab.ncsu.edu, your claims that
you "study the brain scientifically" and your other assorted comments about
the nature of intelligence would be more believable. (The psychology dept 
at NCSU will certainly not have heard of a psycholab, but then that's not 
stopped you before.)


>And I am no
>exception to the ass-kicking.  Kick back; I will enjoy it.  

No doubt you will. Only the truly sadistic could stick to this group, given 
the dismal level of support and credibility you enjoy here.

>I enjoy 
>intelligent debate, for it makes me and those I debate stronger in the
>process.


Repeated posting of the same tired old arguments that have been refuted time 
and again, constitutes intelligent debate? And if nothing else, I would think
you could have at least reworded them... but then you probably feel they need
no further improvement. I just don't see you strengthening your debating skills
in this manner.

>
>-- Scott Tai
>   tai@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us
>

>PS to Mike Steiner:
>Get some rest; take your vitamins.  Don't be obnoxious.  You are NOT as 
>smart or precious as you think you are.  You are a lump of dysfunctional 
>proteins riding on a creaky old planet with 5 billion other lumps 
>weighing it down.  Grow up.

By the way, those were "Travis Peter"'s lines you just recited above. 
Apparently you recycle other people's garbage in addition to your 
own. Or should I have said, other personae, seeing that Peters
was just one product of your multiple personality syndrome. 

If you want people to listen to you, post something fresh and interesting
instead of digging up those mouldy old postings of yours. If they didn't work
the first time around, don't expect them to do so now. And please stop using 
these ridiculous aliases. You must have the courage of your convictions. Use 
your true name and stand up for what you believe in, or be forever dismissed 
as a coward.   
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