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-====== Basic Info =======
+====== Short Essay Page =======
+===== Basic Info ======
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     * **Draft Due**: //Nov 6// (Mandatory, but not part of grade)
     * **Final Version Due**: //Before midnight Nov 30//
-====== Short Essay Topics Choices ======
+===== Short Essay Topics Choices =====
 //Please take note: Those with the same topic are not allowed to collaborate on the writing - the essays are supposed to be your own work. \\
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 **Helgi Leifsson**: The role of logic in AGI  \\
 **Hrafn Eiríksson**: Selected recent AGI architectures: What are they lacking? \\
-**Sabrina Kirstein**: Robotics from an ethical viewpoint \\
+**Sabrina Kirstein**: What are Recent AGI Architectures Lacking? \\
 **Kristján Tryggvason**: The role of logic in AGI \\
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-====== Short Essay Q & A ======
+===== Short Essay Q & A =====
 **Here I will post questions that may come up during your writing of your essay, in relation to your topic and the various themes of the course.**
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 **Q:** "My girlfriend talked me out of quoting anything. She says it's bad form. She has a M.S. (in food science, mainly chemistry) and I only have a B.S. So I didn't argue too much. Maybe shes's wrong or at least it depends on the discipline. I can she that it's ok for literature. And done much in philosophy(AI)?" \\
-**A:** //Same comment applies here as above: it is based on the needs of the author and his material whether it is appropriate to quote. It is silly to put down a hard rule saying "quotes are to be avoided". It is the first time I hear this idea, frankly. If there is a good reason to quote something, then it must be quoted.//
+**A:** //Same comment applies here as above: it is based on the needs of the author and his material whether it is appropriate to quote. It is silly to put down a hard rule saying "quotes are to be avoided". It is the first time I hear this idea, frankly. If you want a hard-and-fast rule, it would be this: If there is a good reason to quote something, then it must be quoted.//
 **Q**: "In the rest of the paper you number references in brackets. And for instance you [43] in other places: //[43] Wang, P. (2004). Toward a unified artificial intelligence, in In Papers from the 2004 AAAI Fall Symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Research and Systems, pp. 83–90.// \\