Noun

(scruffies)

An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".

Noun

(en noun)

An unremarkable, ordinary human being.

(slang, derogatory, in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1959 , date = December 1 , first = Ron , last = Bennett , authorlink = , magazine = Skyrack , title = , url = http://www.gostak.co.uk/skyrack/SKYRACK10.htm , volume = , issue = 10 , page = , passage = THE LIVERPOOL PARTY at Pat and Frank Milnes’ celebrated both the Gunpowder Plot and the Liverpool Club’s 400th and something meeting. Two mundane and non-fan friends of the hosts - women, too - played brag all night and Norman Weedall disappeared at 3 a.m. }}

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1989 , date = Spring , first = Lawrence , last = Person , authorlink = , magazine = , title = Fear and Loathing in New Orleans: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of American Fandom , url = , volume = 2 , issue = 3 (whole number

7)

, page = 10 , passage = The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes . The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’ }}

* 1996 , "Angel of Death", furries vs. mundanes'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.fan.furry )

Some people just think your (SIC) a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot (SIC) of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes .

(fandom slang) The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1966 , date = November , first = Lee , last = Hoffman , authorlink = , magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly , title = Our Authors , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy4-34.html , volume = , issue = 4 , page = 35 , passage = Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture. }}