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by repelsteeltje 41 days ago
Watts and sustainability were never part of the Turing test, of course. It was conceived as more of a philosophical argument than a practical test.

For instance, consider Searle's Chinese Room counter argument [1]: Millions of humans emulating a computer program isn't the most efficient use of resources either, off course.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room