My big question though is whether this exchange led to a lasting change in the fellow’s opinion as to the possibility of AI. In practice it seems to me that most of the time when people decisively loose an argument they still return to their original position within a few days just by ignoring that it ever happened.
He probably didn’t see it as an argument proper, but a long misunderstanding. Most people arn’t mentally equipped to make high fidelity translations between qualia and words in either direction[superficially, they are Not Articulate. More key, they might be Not Articulable], when you dismantle their words, it doesn’t mean much to them, cause you havn’t touched their true thoughts or anything that represents them.
Robin sort-of generalized it so that it doesn’t. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/12/why_common_prio.html
My big question though is whether this exchange led to a lasting change in the fellow’s opinion as to the possibility of AI. In practice it seems to me that most of the time when people decisively loose an argument they still return to their original position within a few days just by ignoring that it ever happened.
He probably didn’t see it as an argument proper, but a long misunderstanding. Most people arn’t mentally equipped to make high fidelity translations between qualia and words in either direction[superficially, they are Not Articulate. More key, they might be Not Articulable], when you dismantle their words, it doesn’t mean much to them, cause you havn’t touched their true thoughts or anything that represents them.