wedrifid comments on David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 01 February 2011 06:19:44AM *  2 points [-]

Programming an AI in C++? Doesn't compute.

Of the concepts named for Alan Turing it is "Turing Completeness" that is far more interesting and important than the chatbot test. If you think on the concept of a Turing complete computation system you will perhaps realise why the rest of us would consider your claim extremely silly. Well, one of the reasons anyway.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 02 February 2011 07:38:11AM 0 points [-]

That last statement you quoted was silly. Not funny at all, apparently.