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I used to say the Turing Test wasn't a philosophical problem, but a measure of an indifference curve from economics, where it shows the point at which people do
by motohagiography 4y ago
I used to say the Turing Test wasn't a philosophical problem, but a measure of an indifference curve from economics, where it shows the point at which people don't care whether or not they are interacting with a machine, and where we will likely substitute away from relating to people - and instead to machines. The indifference curve was based on price, but instead, the "price" we express our preferences at is just from the cognitive load from dealing with this uncanny machine.
The "uncanny valley," fits into that because something uncanny imposes a sensory load on us that isn't worth the trouble for what it's doing, so it comes off as weird. When we talk about the Turing Test in a popular sense, this economic curve is what I think we're really discussing, and I think the idea of intelligence and mind is too sophisticated to be effectively reduced to, that a mind is whatever it says it is if you believe it.
That little strange loop of logic decouples and unmoors people from reality because once you believe that, you will believe literally anything.