“How perverse do you have to be to design programs simulating such stupid beings and others simulating individuals far too intelligent not to suffer from being surrounded by the first category, and programs simulating musicians and others, artists, and still others, writers, who write books read by yet more programs? Or books that nobody reads, for that matter? Who designed the programs for Moses, Homer, Mozart, and Einstein, and why are there so many programs with no particular qualities, which shuffle through their electronic existence not adding anything—or only very little—to the
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