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And System Reply, too, ignores the central problem: the man in the room does not understand Chinese.
by globnomulous 2y ago
And System Reply, too, ignores the central problem: the man in the room does not understand Chinese.
- grumbel 2y agoThat's only a "problem" if you assume human exceptionalism and begging the question. It's completely irrelevant to the actual problem. The human is just a cog in the machine, there is no reason to assume they would ever gain any understanding, as they are not the entity that is generating Chinese. To make it a little easier to understand: * go read about the x86 instruction * take an .exe file * manually execute it with pen&paper Do you think you understand what the .exe does? Do you think understanding the .exe is required to execute it?
- globnomulous 2y agoJust an aside while I think about what you wrote: John Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia are phenomenal sci-fi novels that deal with these issues.