Re: [gutvol-d] blah blah blog

Michael Hart wrote:

So, what you are telling me hre, ist hat while a human can muddle through ok, it takes a computer to really maess things up.

I think what he is saying is that the human brain is a highly capable, general purpose computing device, highly capable of resolving ambiguity, whereas computers and their associated software are still rather primative devices. I believe that at some point in the future computers will be capable of resolving all the ambiguities inherent in PG e-texts, but that day is not yet here, and until then the software is going to require some human help.