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And I always thought that the Turing test was a philosophical way to solve the matter- I always intended it as meaning "it's pointless to inspect closer somethi
by throw310822 2y ago
And I always thought that the Turing test was a philosophical way to solve the matter- I always intended it as meaning "it's pointless to inspect closer something that quacks, walks like a duck: because walking and quacking are the essence of the duck".
And now I am surprised at how people seem to have understood the test the other way around- as if it was meant to be just some kind of empirical test to be confirmed by some more rigorous inspection.
And yes, of course LLMs are nor sentient as humans are: but the limits of their sentience should be clearly visible in the limits of their discourse.
- jayd16 2y agoMereological nihilism like this solves a huge swath of meaningless questions (across many fields) about if something meets some poorly defined categorization. But the kind of person asking these questions is usually the kind of person to reject such an answer.