In article <9308252001.AA14017@custard.think.com>, Andy Wilson <ajw@Think.COM> wrote: : [mostly bogus stuff] That is irrelevant to cypherpunks, as I understand the list. There is no technology, including that of privacy, that cannot be used for ill. We don't know how they're going to be using the neural network. They could, as was suggested, abandon their minds and and rely on the neural net. I don't think they will because doing so would be a really bad business decision. Furthermore, on the evidence, the neural network output will only be used as one datum in a process involving many inputs and a human making the final decision. Finally, in the examples I'm familiar with (from reading AI Expert), when a neural net is used as a decision element, precisely because of its error rate, the decision isn't "go/no go" but "go/refer the problem to a human".