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and this is why arxiv is not the same as peer review.

• musicale 5y ago
  It doesn't seem to be that far off from other (usually unconvincing) philosophical arguments that ultimately boil down to axioms or definitions. For example, John Searle (of the infamous Chinese Room "argument"/paradox) posits that a simulation of a mind - however realistic and convincing it may be - is not the same as an actual mind any more than virtual reality is the same as actual reality. For example, you could have a chatbot that passes the Turing test but inside it is just smoke and mirrors (e.g. ML models.) Which is to say if we could somehow replace Searle with a robot whose appearance and behavior were indistinguishable from that of the actual Searle then it would only confirm what we already know. (Though it is fun to imagine the actual Searle secretly watching his robotic replacement in anger as it does things that he would never do but which are still completely convincing to his duped students, while faculty colleagues take a liking to robo-Searle in a way that they never did to the original.)