> Why is treating GPT-4 as a reasoning machine so controversial? At the risk of attracting down votes, you could ask the same question about the visceral respo

> Why is treating GPT-4 as a reasoning machine so controversial? At the risk of attracting down votes, you could ask the same question about the visceral responses to crypto currencies you see here. It's certainly true they have their problems. Bitcoins 7 transactions per second makes it's chain a no-starter for most uses, the numerous multi million dollar losses due to bugs in Ethereum contracts should scare anybody. But the reaction you see here goes well beyond that. After all they continue exist, even performing the occasional useful task, and they are gradually (glacially?) overcoming their initial shortcomings. The aversion to everything crypto seems to be more of a guttural reaction to the existence of something that uses algorithms to generate and distribute trust. It challenges the human social trust networks we've been using to do the job for centuries. This aversion to calling the obvious deductive capabilities AI's "thinking" or "intelligence" looks to be similar. I guess it challenges what has been a uniquely human ability.