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How do you say 'User Manual' in German?
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Mentifex
2013-02-09 21:17:59 UTC
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Artificial intelligence (AI) in German (DeKi)
is being developed in the Forth programming
language as an AI supermind called Wotan at

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/DeKi.txt

("deutsche künstliche Intelligenz") and
the AI User Manual has been stubbed in at

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/DeKiUser.html

but the manual needs a good name in German.
The problem is, the Wotan German AI holds
the manifest destiny of becoming so smart
in the future that humans will not so much
"use" Wotan as co-operate with Him or even
be subservient to Him. Should we not there-
fore use a word like "Bedienungsanleitung"
which means something like "Service Manual"
but will carry the double entendre of being
a manual not only of taking care of Wotan
(i.e., "servicing" the supercomputer AI),
but also of "serving" the Superior Entity?

Mentifex (Arthur)
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http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html
http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/240
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Meme-ebook/dp/B007ZI66FS
http://groups.google.com/group/pl.sci.ai/msg/478aed59764d833e
Einde O'Callaghan
2013-02-09 22:22:00 UTC
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On 09.02.2013 22:17, Mentifex wrote:

Benutzerhandbuch is the usual term.

Grüße, Einde O'Callaghan
Post by Mentifex
Artificial intelligence (AI) in German (DeKi)
is being developed in the Forth programming
language as an AI supermind called Wotan at
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/DeKi.txt
("deutsche künstliche Intelligenz") and
the AI User Manual has been stubbed in at
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/DeKiUser.html
but the manual needs a good name in German.
The problem is, the Wotan German AI holds
the manifest destiny of becoming so smart
in the future that humans will not so much
"use" Wotan as co-operate with Him or even
be subservient to Him. Should we not there-
fore use a word like "Bedienungsanleitung"
which means something like "Service Manual"
but will carry the double entendre of being
a manual not only of taking care of Wotan
(i.e., "servicing" the supercomputer AI),
but also of "serving" the Superior Entity?
Mentifex (Arthur)
--
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html
http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/240
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Meme-ebook/dp/B007ZI66FS
http://groups.google.com/group/pl.sci.ai/msg/478aed59764d833e
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