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Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author.   Lanier's name is also often associated with Virtual Reality research.  He is credited with either coining or popularizing[…]
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According to Jaron Lanier, the right way to understand Alan Turing’s famous “Turing Test” is to understand that it “began in the mind of somebody who was in a deeply, deeply uncomfortable possible situation, who was very close to suicide, and that it amounted to a flight from life, but also a defense of life.”


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