Claim · 1999-01-07 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Moravec's letter of 7 January 1999 names Colin McGinn's review of 3 January 1999 and replies to it.

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Letter re. "Hello, HAL" → cites → Hello, HAL

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Claim and evidence

Letter re. "Hello, HAL"cites ↓Hello, HAL

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1999-01-07 · publication Records dated 1999 →

Scope and limitsA reply naming the text it answers; the letter concerns machine understanding, not a W proposition.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Letter re. "Hello, HAL", NYT Book Review, 3 Jan 1999

Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML copy of a letter to The New York Times) · 1999-01-07

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Source excerpt

“Colin McGinn's comments in the January 3 Book Review reveal a chasm between traditional western Philosophy of Mind and the emerging Sciences of Mind.”

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Hans Moravec
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 f74d7a8d7fbac0e3ec55ac97f84ea7fbb9317078d0d8ba2cbf151fa79186bb07). Author-hosted copy of a letter dated January 7, 1999, addressed to the letters desk of The New York Times. Whether the newspaper printed it was not established.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Hans Moravec, “Letter re. "Hello, HAL", NYT Book Review, 3 Jan 1999”, 1999-01-07.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (24 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 157) re-read the source and agreed that the passage names the earlier text or author. No human editorial review.

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Date. The author-hosted copy is dated January 7, 1999.

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