fair enough, I can see that reading. But I didn’t mean to say I actually believe that, or that it’s a good thing. More like an instinctive reaction.
It’s just that certain types of life experiences put a small but noticeable barrier between you and other people. It was a point about alienation, and trying to drive home just how badly typical minding can fail. When I barely recognize my younger self from my current perspective, that’s a pretty strong example.
Alright, perhaps I was too harsh in some responses. But yes, that’s how your messages were perceived by me, at least, and several others. I mean, I also said at some point that I’m doubting sentience/conscious behavior of some people at certain times, but saying you don’t perceive them as actual people was way edgy (and you do admit in the post that you went for offensive+contrarian wording), combined with the rest of the self-praise lines such as “I’m confident these AI tricks would never work on me” and how wise and emotionally stable you are compared to others.
Finally, it’s pretty hard to not take this the wrong way, as it’s clearly a contentless insult.
It was not meant this way, honestly, which is why I prefixed it with this. I’m just enjoying collecting cases where some people in the comments set forth their own implementations of Turing tests for the AI, and then other people accidentally fail them.
I think you’re confusing arrogance concerning the topic itself with communicating my insights arrogantly. I’m absolutely doing the latter, partly as a pushback to your overconfident claims, partly because better writing would require time and energy I don’t currently have. But the former? I don’t think so.
Re: the Turing test. My apologies, I was overly harsh as well. But none of these examples are remotely failing the Turing test. For starters, you can’t fail the test if you’re not aware you’re taking it. Should we call anyone misreading some text or getting a physics question wrong as “having failed the Turing test” from now on, in all contexts?
Funnily enough, the pendulum problem admits a bunch of answers, because “swinging like a pendulum” has multiple valid interpretations. Furthermore, a discerning judge shouldn’t just fail every entity that gets the physics wrong, nor pass every entity that get the physics right. We’re not learning anything here except that many people are apparently terrible at performing Turing tests, or don’t even understanding what the test is. That’s why I originally read your post as an insult, because it just doesn’t make sense to me how you’re using the term (so it’s reduced to a “clever” zinger)
fair enough, I can see that reading. But I didn’t mean to say I actually believe that, or that it’s a good thing. More like an instinctive reaction.
It’s just that certain types of life experiences put a small but noticeable barrier between you and other people. It was a point about alienation, and trying to drive home just how badly typical minding can fail. When I barely recognize my younger self from my current perspective, that’s a pretty strong example.
Hope that’s clearer.
Alright, perhaps I was too harsh in some responses. But yes, that’s how your messages were perceived by me, at least, and several others. I mean, I also said at some point that I’m doubting sentience/conscious behavior of some people at certain times, but saying you don’t perceive them as actual people was way edgy (and you do admit in the post that you went for offensive+contrarian wording), combined with the rest of the self-praise lines such as “I’m confident these AI tricks would never work on me” and how wise and emotionally stable you are compared to others.
It was not meant this way, honestly, which is why I prefixed it with this. I’m just enjoying collecting cases where some people in the comments set forth their own implementations of Turing tests for the AI, and then other people accidentally fail them.
I think you’re confusing arrogance concerning the topic itself with communicating my insights arrogantly. I’m absolutely doing the latter, partly as a pushback to your overconfident claims, partly because better writing would require time and energy I don’t currently have. But the former? I don’t think so.
Re: the Turing test. My apologies, I was overly harsh as well. But none of these examples are remotely failing the Turing test. For starters, you can’t fail the test if you’re not aware you’re taking it. Should we call anyone misreading some text or getting a physics question wrong as “having failed the Turing test” from now on, in all contexts?
Funnily enough, the pendulum problem admits a bunch of answers, because “swinging like a pendulum” has multiple valid interpretations. Furthermore, a discerning judge shouldn’t just fail every entity that gets the physics wrong, nor pass every entity that get the physics right. We’re not learning anything here except that many people are apparently terrible at performing Turing tests, or don’t even understanding what the test is. That’s why I originally read your post as an insult, because it just doesn’t make sense to me how you’re using the term (so it’s reduced to a “clever” zinger)