Constructing the Other Half of The Policeman’s Beard (2021)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electronicbookreview.com&#x2F;publications&#x2F;constructing-the-other-half-of-the-policemans-beard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electronicbookreview.com&#x2F;publications&#x2F;constructing-t...</a>

A relative had a Mac running Racter back in the day. I was a child but I played with it quite a bit. I found it magical. I thought I was looking at ChatGPT, but obviously it was a trick. A few years later I realized that Racter wasn&#x27;t that good, but I&#x27;ve always wanted a &quot;Racter that actually works&quot;... It was a long wait, but we got it for better or worse!

And that book is (naturally enough) borrowable on archive.org. :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;policemansbeardi0000unse&#x2F;page&#x2F;n21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;policemansbeardi0000unse&#x2F;page&#x2F;n2...</a>

I first learned of it in Douglas Hofstadter’s Metamagical Themas, I think.<p>You can run it here:
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I&#x27;ve never heard of this before.  This is wild.  More here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.historyofinformation.com&#x2F;detail.php?id=3351" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.historyofinformation.com&#x2F;detail.php?id=3351</a>

fun fact, there was a shareware clone of Racter released in 1991, called Claude<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;afs&#x2F;cs&#x2F;project&#x2F;ai-repository&#x2F;ai&#x2F;areas&#x2F;classics&#x2F;racter&#x2F;0.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;afs&#x2F;cs&#x2F;project&#x2F;ai-repository&#x2F;ai&#x2F;areas...</a>

Racter (1984) (ubu.com)