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That sounds like a variant of the Chinese Room problem: if a non-Chinese speaker follows a rule book to text-chat in Chinese with someone on the other side, doe
by SilasX 3y ago
That sounds like a variant of the Chinese Room problem: if a non-Chinese speaker follows a rule book to text-chat in Chinese with someone on the other side, does s/he, in actuality, “speak Chinese”?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
- pault 3y agoNo, the book does.
- unlikelymordant 3y agoOr perhaps the book + human system does
- winternewt 3y agoOr perhaps it's the universe speaking Chinese with itself. The chain of cause and effect stretches 13.8 billion light years.
- readyplayeremma 3y agoExcept the person in the room also had to write the book by looking at examples of Chinese.
- malf 3y agoObligatory four-letter comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room