Opinions, essays, and editorials that we and our compatriots-in-conversation feel a need to share.

The problems attaining naturalness in synthetic beings:

Steering: What Course Do We Steer? [Coin 2/15/02]

UnNatural: Natural vs Unnatural Language [Godden 11/11/01]

NonHal: The Linguistics of a Non-Fictional HAL [Neustein 10/29/01]

Soul: Soul Searching and Synthetics [Coin 7/12/01]

The road ahead:

Greed: Is Greed Enough? [Coin 9/18/02]

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