[HN Gopher] Debating the impact of machine-created art
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       Debating the impact of machine-created art
        
       Author : dnetesn
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2021-04-04 10:36 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | brudgers wrote:
       | _An ant is crawling on a patch of sand. As it crawls, it traces a
       | line in the sand. By pure chance the line that it traces curves
       | and recrosses itself in such a way that it ends up looking like a
       | recognizable caricature of Winston Churchill. Has the ant traced
       | a picture of Winston Churchill, a picture that depicts
       | Churchill?_
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       | Hillary Putnam, _Brains in a Vat_ , 1981
       | https://faculty.uca.edu/rnovy/Putnam--Brains%20in%20a%20vat....
        
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