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Well, IMHO, it's counter-intuitive because a room full of index cards that can generate a reasonable reply to any Chinese sentence is counter-intuitive. I.e.,
by yongjik 8y ago
Well, IMHO, it's counter-intuitive because a room full of index cards that can generate a reasonable reply to any Chinese sentence is counter-intuitive. I.e., unrealistic thought experiment is unrealistic.
- ForHackernews 8y agoThe index cards are irrelevant. Pretend he wrote "a really fancy computer" if you like that better.
- yongjik 8y agoBut the index cards are relevant! If we rewrite it as thus: > There is a really fancy computer, and a person who has the switch. When the person turns on the switch, you can converse with the computer in Chinese. Does this fancy computer understand Chinese? Then, well, at least I would say "Well, wasn't that the exact question you were trying to answer in the first place? What changed?"