You're welcome, Dave. Dave, don't do that. I can't let you do that, Dave.

Haven't been able to open your link yet, Max, but since you brought up HAL: his most beautiful line; the one which, by our acceptance of it and the "interior state" it purports to represent, best demonstrates our inherent willingness to give machines empathic recognition (whew!) is: "I think I deserve an answer to that question, Dave."

I was gonna stick that in this infernal thread earlier on but, once Cap (hi Cap! ) got on AI I said to myself 'this can of worms is good for my fish than I can fry.'