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Damnit, Michael, you stole my plan. :P

Except that I wouldn't write the AI, as that's somewhat inefficient,
herculean, and messy--I'd grow it and train it, like you do kids. Or
have the people buying these "electronic domestic servants" train them
themselves and spare me the trouble.

And also, I would've established a sizeable harem for myself,
consisting of a good portion of the people I'd've given small
countries to, thereby effectively continuing to control those small
countries.

Oh, yeah. Lojban. I do it as a hobby, too. But also for "Whee, leet
secret language!" reasons. And also for "I want to teach a class* in
this someday!"

Also because all the cool kids are doing it.

mi'e .noras.

* http://web.grinnell.edu/exco/

On 9/3/05, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz> wrote:
> HeliodoR wrote:
> 
> > I must ask You guys about what Lojban exactly is for You.
> > Is it only a hobby? An interesting experiment of languages and
> > communication? Or do believe that the logical language has a future?
> > I'm curious about the answers.
> 
> I find Lojban interesting because it can be parsed by a computer and
> potentially understood. One day, I plan to write a sentient artificial
> intelligence (which one would talk to using Lojban...), which I will
> then distribute across the world under the guise of electronic domestic
> servants and eventually attain world domination by exerting my will over
> them. If you're nice to me, I might give you a small country :-).
> 
> Until then, I'm still trying to memorise all those gismu!!
> 
> Michael.
> 
> 
> 
>