Some AI Koans [Lisp jokes from the old MIT AI Lab]

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http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html

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A couple more here: http://www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/Lighter/aikoans.html

Sussman told me that the story about him and Minsky actually happened. Except the punchline is "It has preconceptions, you just don't know what they are."