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Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 01:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 22 01:36:00 1983
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From:  Steven A. Swernofsky 

Do I count as an AI program?  I can parse your "legalese" for you.
The quoted paragraph essentially signs over to your insurance company
any rights you may have had to sue someone (anyone) over the accident.
This is in exchange for the company's payout on your claim.  They can
then (themselves) sue the people you would have been able to sue and
collect without bothering you or getting your approval.

This is not a legal opinion of any sort.  Please send me my can of
Coors Lite via the newly-created CLTP (Coors Lite Transmission
Protocol).

-- Steve

P.S.  The Los Angeles /Daily Journal/ is a legal newspaper which 
publishes a "sentence of the day" each day, culled from actual legal 
writing.  It is usually as bad or worse than your quoted example.
They also publish a "sentence of the year" (!).

Since most human beings cannot parse a sentence of that opaqueness, no
AI program should pass the Turing test unless it also fails at it.  $$