Re: The Avatar (was): Learning [was Basic Aspects of AI]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patty 
Cutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> Acme Posting wrote:
>
> > Put yourself in my shoes. I was a new poster, I went through the
> > stages. Old posters have said they did. If you read real old messages,
> > other people did too. Now, with you (and Patty) we see the same
> > patterns of the stages. I mean, who has been nicer to Longley than
> > Patty? She gave him the upper hand. She read his site. She discussed
> > his favorite things. She ignored admishments. She was professional,
> > patient, non-confrontational. Etc. Etc. Yet, see what Longley posted
> > this morning or maybe just yesterday:
> >  "You seem to be writing (ignorant) nonsense again Patty - have you
> > retained nothing over the past couple of months?"
> >  Well, I can't speak for Patty either. But how long do you think an
> > ordinary and prudent person would assume Patty would take this
> > (regardless of how she does in fact take it). And how about those
> > "couple of months." What would that represent in the mind of an older
> > poster who found Longley to be worthless at some later point?
>
> I took it as the last straw.  Now I wish he'd just go away along with 
> this incessant talk about him .. so then maybe we could get back to 
> talkin about AI  ...
>
> Patty
I doubt you'd know how to talk about the Philosophy of AI Patty, you 
don't appear to know much about it. What you say above is more nonsense 
- you e-mailed me indicating that you had no idea why I'd criticised 
you. I explained why, and until now there has been no response. You've 
now clearly shown where your abilities lie. What was the substance of my 
criticism?

Like several others, you seem to have great difficulties differentiating 
what is being talked about from the person themselves. You've revealed 
that difficulty from your first posts to this newsgroup. As I see it, 
you've learned next to nothing and you're contributing next to nothing 
except to further foment the nonsense that's appearing in these threads 
- I'd expect more of someone who asserts that they are a professional 
Clinical Psychologist.
--
David Longley