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by jameshart 1152 days ago
When you say we need ‘good’ tests for intelligence, you mean ‘tests that humans can pass but machines can’t’.

You’re demanding this because you aren’t comfortable with the implication that a computer can pass our existing tests for intelligence, so you rationalize that with the comforting thought that those tests were not meant to identify intelligence. Tests like the SAT or the bar exam or AP English. Or tests for theory of mind or common sense or logic. Those tests aren’t testing for ‘intelligence’ - they can’t be. Because a computer passed them.

It’s okay. We can make new tests.

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Those are a lot of leaps to make about my motivations!