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I assume you didn't actually read the responses. It is only inconsistent if (as you have done) you ignore the International date line...

Something I didn't learn in school (or maybe just misremembered) is that Magellan did not return to Spain, he was killed in the...

"Mercury Rising" and "The Rain man" has a little bit of mathematics in there.

If deception is a sign of intelligence, then biology which is full of deception should be very intelligent (due to selection...

Just draw a polar view of Earth and label the time zones (or find one online) and you'll see it does work. The date line is what makes...

Sorry, what is the puzzle that needs to be solved here?

Well, IMO that’s both a reasonable complaint and a good reason to not get bogged down in this argument. There are far more productive...

I don't agree with your major hypothesis. I don't think intelligence is required to deceive in the sense the paper you referenced is...

This is going to have me chuckling for at least a couple days. 😂

Oops, sorry, I thought you were @gleem I was just being a troublemaker. I don’t think Helen Keller’s mental state is at all relevant...

I'm not sure of that. Non-human animals that cannot speak have passed the test. So I don't think Helen Keller not being able to...

They lay out a logical case based on Turing's test as the threshold, but if LLMs are AGI then AGI is pretty disappointing and we'll need...

To follow up on this a bit: humans don't learn to interact with the world in non-textual ways by processing text. We have much of those...

I'm skeptical because in the only example of such intelligence that we know exists, we humans, it did not arise from linguistics alone...

Same here. The risks and benefits of the technology are better discussed without these terms, in my opinion. If an AI making financial...