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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (1353)	4/27/1999 2:09:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 5853

<<But if I remember correctly (I read the book a long time ago) the problem with HAL was introduced by humans ... who programmed in the notion that HAL was not to let the crew know of the real mission ... or something like that ...>> The issue you raise is part of my point. When systems get really complex we will probably run into more severe and more frequent unintended consequences (the HAL programmers didn't mean for HAL to kill the crew). JMO Clark