>Ran across this this morning and found it hilarious
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>http://www.wine-economics.org/journal/content/Volume2/number2/Full%20Texts/richardquandt.pdf
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>Warning: liberal use of the word bull****
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>If the following quote (of a quote) isn't a sign of the times, I don't know what does!
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>“...Well, the thing about life is, it gets weird. People are always talking ya about truth. Everybody
>always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or somethin’, and they got a
>supply in the closet. But what you learn, as you get older, is there ain’t no truth. All
>there is is bull****, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it. One layer of bull**** on
>top of another. And what you do in life when you get older is, you pick the layer of
>bull**** that you prefer and that’s your bull****, so to speak.”

Bullshit generating software has a proud tradition. Back home, GluGen (generator gluposti, i.e. of rubbish) was written on a 80186, in 1990 or thereabouts; there was an early version for ZX Spectrum in 1985 (both generated politician's speeches). Ken Levy wrote one, I wrote one (and can't find it, grrr... may have to write it all over again). Maybe that's the sign pointing to the proper path for AI: start with bullshit, and you may get somewhere, someday.