It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery — and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.
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如果我们有一台可以复制大象行为或海豚行为的机器,那么则可以期待有可以复制出人类思想的类似机器。
If we had a machine that could duplicate elephant or dolphin behavior, we would expect that a similar machine could duplicate human thought.