Nisan comments on On What Selves Are - CEV sequence - Less Wrong

0 Post author: diegocaleiro 14 February 2012 07:21PM

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Comment author: Nisan 14 February 2012 09:44:50PM 5 points [-]

Yes, there plenty of people who don't pass the Turing test — e.g., those who don't speak the right language. For this reason, the Turing test, with a human or machine judge, is not a good nonperson predicate, contrary to the OP. But it can be taken as a person predicate. That is, if something passes a strict enough Turing test, it's reasonable to regard that thing as a person.

Comment author: gRR 28 February 2012 06:14:33AM 0 points [-]

But then this defeats the whole purpose: if we don't want the AI to be a person, then it won't be able to pass the Turing test, and then it is unclear whether it would be able to use the test to tell people from non-people.

Comment author: Nisan 28 February 2012 06:58:34AM 0 points [-]

Indeed.