It Should Be Allowed to Roam the Countryside

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— Joseph Tate


The title is from Alan Turing’s 1948 paper “Intelligent Machinery”: “In order that the machine should have a chance of finding things out for itself it should be allowed to roam the countryside, and the danger to the ordinary citizen would be serious.”

The text is the UTF-8 encoded string ”lonely as a cloud” from Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”



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