Rhetoric

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Rhetoric
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• 1. Choose your audience and speak to it

If you were writing for a person who knows just
what you know, you wouldnt have to be
writing. Imagine a reader who is a moderately
knowledgeable computer sciences sophomore. Ask
yourself How much explanation must I offer my
imaginary reader?. Keep adding details until you
believe your reader would be comfortable. If in
doubt, err on the side of too much explanation.
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Content

• 2. Dont overstate

Be careful with universals. Everybody knows p
means There exists no one who does not know p.
It does not mean Several friends say p. Test
yourself on your claims ask yourself How do I
justify that?. Modify them until you feel
comfortable that what you said is what you can
justify if challenged but guarantee that by
challenging yourself.
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Overstatements

• Every time a robot is invented, everyone becomes
  extremely interested and curious.

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Overstatements

• Technology continues to be an overwhelming
  presence in todays world with Americans daily
  use of the internet and the personal computer.

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Making an Argument

• Worst

Robots will never be conscious, intelligent
beings.
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Making an Argument

• Equally bad

I dont think that robots will ever be
conscious, intelligent beings.
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Making an Argument

• Not actually much better

Robots will never be conscious, intelligent
beings because they arent like us.
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Making an Argument

• Only a very tiny bit better

Robots will never be conscious, intelligent
beings because they are purely digital while the
neurons in our brains are also influenced by
hormones and other chemicals in their
environment.
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Making an Argument

• Only better for particular audiences

Robots will never be conscious, intelligent
beings because ltOracle I believe ingt says that
people are special.
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Making an Argument

• Not much better

Robots will never be conscious, intelligent
beings because they only do what theyre
programmed to do.
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Making an Argument

• Slightly better

Robots will never be conscious, intelligent
beings because they dont perceive and act in the
world.
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Making an Argument

• Much better

• Conscious, intelligent behavior appears to
  require the ability to do all of the following
  things
• Balance conflicting goals.
• Perceive and interact with the world.
• Learn from experience.
• Apply a massive amount of knowledge to solve
  problems in real time.
• So it is unlikely that robots will be able to act
  like conscious, intelligent beings until they too
  can do these things.

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Paper and Paragraph Structure
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Sentences
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Written and Spoken Language

• Talking came (way) first.

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Written and Spoken Language

• Talking came (way) first.
• Writing captures speech for later. So read your
  paper out loud to yourself. If it sounds bad, it
  probably is bad.

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Written and Spoken Language

• Talking came (way) first.
• Writing captures speech for later. So read your
  paper out loud to yourself. If it sounds bad, it
  probably is bad.
• But there are a few differences.

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Clunky Sentence Structure

• As always, that which is unknown is the most
  frightening.

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Clunky Sentence Structure

• The unique choice for a flute as an instrument
  was because

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Clunky Sentence Structure

• Another important representative in the saga over
  artificial intelligence in ancient mythology is
  Hephaestus.

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Clunky Sentence Structure

• You must first take a closer look at each
  individual law separately and from numerous
  amount of angles. One particular angle that
  opens up a vast array of uncertainty is

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Clunky Sentence Structure

• Therefore intelligence comes with the capability
  of fairly accurately predicting the consequences
  of a given action whether desired or undesired.

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Clunky Sentence Structure

• The issue with rationing is the possibility of a
  black market to surge.

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Clunky Sentence Structure

• Even animals such as snakes will learn over time
  as to which animals are desirable to eat, and
  will be given no example from those of their same
  species to follow.

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Vocabulary

• Man has always shown an unprecedented desire to
  advance our tools.

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Vocabulary

• Our way of life, so heavily relied upon
  technology, portrays the stark contrast to the
  days of manual labor.

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Vocabulary

• Using that definition one can acquire that a
  robot is made to simulate real behavior.

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Vocabulary

• Using that definition one can acquire that a
  robot is made to simulate real behavior.

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Vocabulary

• The rest of the brain comprises the basics of a
  complex living organism.

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Vocabulary

• Deep Blue portrays not an actual machine that
  learns to play chess, but instead is another
  plain object which carries the capacity of
  programming.

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Vocabulary

• extremely unique

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Vocabulary

• ... desire to fulfill a sense of loneliness

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Subcategorization Rules

• sensory predictions on what the door should be
  like

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Subcategorization Rules

• Almost destroyed, it could do nothing to
  counteract against the onslaught.

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Subcategorization Rules

• We create concepts to gain common sense on what
  will happen if

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Subcategorization Rules

• It may not be adequate as justification to
  certain ideas.

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Pronouns and Antecedents

• When the receiver obtains it, they would send it
  to the government.

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Reduced Relative Clauses

• This first situation presented brings up many

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Quantifiers and Negation

• Robots can only walk on even surfaces.

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Dangling Modifiers

• Zuse realizes the technology will eventually
  become an artificial brain in 1938.

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Dangling Modifiers

• One has to calculate the balls trajectory when
  it reaches the arm, involving a set of
  mathematical equations.

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Dangling Modifiers

• The next two examples are creations of Jacques de
  Vaucanson, which took on unique features to fool
  humans.

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Dangling Modifiers

• The second law will conflict when multiple orders
  are given to a robot by different people that are
  contrasting.

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Dangling Modifiers

• The stereotype of the crazed, mad scientist
  secretly working in their laboratory on a
  creation that could be dangerous to all has also
  become a fixture of pop culture, which may have
  started with Frankensteins story.

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Dangling Modifiers

• Much the same occurs with all mammals and birds
  who are raised by their parents.

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Parallel Structure

• Therefore to achieve intelligence, one must not
  just be able to change behavior, but create
  concepts that will allow for the being to analyze
  and relatively efficiently handle new challenges.

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Parallel Structure

• This robot stood at five and a half feet tall,
  made out of wood, and painted white to simulate
  marble.

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Which, That, Who

• It represents the thoughts of so many current
  conservatives that currently live in the world.

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Which, That, Who

• such as the mechanical duck which could simply
  digest food.

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Which, That, Who

• These robots are given the three laws which they
  must abide by.

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Which, That, Who

• It is ingrained that things, which are
  unfamiliar, in most cases can be dangerous.

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Split Infinitives

• The robots of the movie industry need to only
  stay in the movie industry and never arrive in
  the world of the real.

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Split Infinitives

• because it is programmed to never kill a human.

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Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich,
eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in
the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the
panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces
a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it
over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says at the
door. "Look it up. The waiter turns to the
relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an
explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white
bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots
and leaves."
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Commas

• In order to do this his goal was

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Commas

• They are developed over time generally by
  observed example.

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Where Writing Differs (or Not) from Speaking -
Colloquialisms

• Our world is so brilliant and compartmentalized.
• If you have ever seen the movie, I Robot, Will
  Smith hated robots.
• As, we all know, the Turing Test

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Where Writing Differs (or Not) from Speaking
Grammar (My Opinion)

• None of these traits are found in humans.
• not ok
• robots that people can relate to
• ok

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Citations

• until in 1978 when a man named Vernon
  Mountcastle published a paper titled, .

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Citations

• until in 1978 when a man named Vernon
  Mountcastle published a paper titled, .
• until the publication of Mountcastle 1978.