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Peter Olcott  
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 More options Oct 6 2012, 10:21 am
Newsgroups: sci.lang, comp.ai.philosophy, comp.ai.nat-lang
From: Peter Olcott <OCR4Screen>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:21:55 -0500
Local: Sat, Oct 6 2012 10:21 am
Subject: Re: What is Needed to Teach a Computer to Read?
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On 10/6/2012 8:36 AM, casey wrote:
> On Oct 6, 6:02 am, Peter Olcott <OCR4Screen> wrote:
>> [...]

>> I would say it like this, some things that are considered by others to
>> be personality disorders because they have some dysfunctional effects
>> also have beneficial effects. To this extent that these things have
>> beneficial effects they are not disorders.

>> For example commission sales people are required to have huge egos
>> because the degree of rejection that they face would crush the spirit of
>> anyone else.
> Sure but the bottom line is do they make the sales or do they just
> talk about the big sales they are going to make?

In any case over-sized egos are a mandatory to survival in this field.
If they only have big egos and make no sales, then they make no commission.

 
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