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From: "C. Paul Douglas" <granite@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: AIs on the Astral
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 09:44:15 -0500
On Mon, 21 Mar 1994, Andy Goodwin wrote:

> So you ar saying that the AI cannot distinguish between races ??
> Surely it would 'choose' to appear as something which will be most distracting
> to the viewer e.g. a member of the opposite sex of the same race ??
>
No, Although It would probably not be able to understand the concept of
race as we do..You skipped the part about Beauty and how it can be the
same for other races..I think that the AI shows the decker the most
attractive face it can to get the decker to stay in the lonely confines
of cyberspace with it...
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