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by cgio 24 days ago
The Turing test is about tricking. Look at the genealogy of the work. In a society where homosexuality was persecuted and homosexuals had to imitate “heterosexual behaviour “ to avoid chemical castration, it wouldn’t be a huge leap to say that , from a functionalism perspective, pretending to be intelligent is the nature itself of being intelligent. Not that I agree with this position, but this is one area where moving the goalposts does not help. Define your own test if you are not happy, don’t piggyback on someone’s else to pass new conditions without the required scrutiny.