Talk:Richard Powers

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I removed the link to Hysterical realism because, besides being a very POV kind of link, Powers doesn't match any of the criteria for inclusion in the group.--Staple 04:56, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

The link from the novel Prisoner's Dilemma leads to a discussion of the concept of Prisoners's Dilemma in Game Theory and not to a discussion of the novel itself. --Epifanee 11 July 2006

Fixed. --dm ^(talk) 02:13, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Galatea 2.2 is referred to as an artificial intelligence experiment gone awry. Actually, the twist is that the narrator discovers that he is the real subject of the experiment, having been fooled into thinking that he is communicating with an artificial intelligence. Mje (talk) 02:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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