Exactly. These kinds of reductive arguments always bother me because they ignore emergent effects. Chess engines are “just” running minimax? Well guess what, th

Exactly. These kinds of reductive arguments always bother me because they ignore emergent effects. Chess engines are “just” running minimax? Well guess what, they’re evaluating millions of positions per second. If this whole intelligence thing can be reduced to “just” predicting the next word, maybe we’re not as special as we thought. In fact anyone who reads the Wikipedia article on cetacean intelligence will quickly realize that we aren’t the hot shit we once thought we were.