> The whole reason for computers to exist is to remove burden from humans. I wish this were more true. I think Baudrillard is closer to the truth: "If men cr

> The whole reason for computers to exist is to remove burden from humans. I wish this were more true. I think Baudrillard is closer to the truth: "If men create intelligent machines ... it is either because they secretly despair of their own intelligence or because they are in danger of succumbing to the weight of a monstrous and useless intelligence which they seek to exorcize by transferring it to machines ... By entrusting this burdensome intelligence to machines we are released from any responsibility to knowledge, much as entrusting power to politicians allows us to disdain any aspiration of our own to power." Intelligence itself is the burden :D