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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada)
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

>Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote:
>> Well. What if you can't clean them up (fast enough)?
>
>Then things change. You may even have a major disaster.
>Too bad. You clean up, and you go forward.

Yeah, that must be right. We only learn from mistakes.

To use a bad analogy: We shouldn't care about software bugs in
flight-control systems. If the thing crashes, *oops*. Well, it's too
bad, but still we can clean it up and try again.

Just go forward. Right down the abyss. Intelligence is just a bad
habit, we can overcome it.


Vinzent.