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Kim_Bruning | 3 days ago
> "The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion."
> "the question, 'Can machines think?' should be replaced by 'Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?'"
> "according to this view the only way to know that a man thinks is to be that particular man. It is in fact the solipsist point of view... instead of arguing continually over this point it is usual to have the polite convention that everyone thinks."
... is: if it's practical to say the system can give meaningful intput/output on xyz in -say- natural language; we might just go ahead and say it can think about xyz, because otherwise everyone's just going to go nuts inventing new terms every time.
grey-area!thinking, kim_bruning!thinking, pet_cat!thinking, octopus!thinking, claude_opus!thinking.
Can we leave out the '!' ? Nothing to do with fooling people. Just practical ways of dealing with the overall concept.
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