Dmytry comments on Hard philosophy problems to test people's intelligence? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dmytry 16 February 2012 06:51:00PM 0 points [-]

I meant, the room got to store many terabytes of information, very well organized too (for the state dump of a chinese speaking person). It's a very big room, library sized, and there's enormous amount of paper that gets processed before it says anything, and enormous timespan.

The argument relies on imagining a room that couldn't possibly have understood anything; imagine the room 'to scale' and the timing to scale, and then assertion that room couldn't possibly have understood anything loses ground.

There's another argument like chinese room, about giant archive of answers to all possible questions. Works by severely under-imagining size of the archive, too.

Comment author: JonathanLivengood 16 February 2012 08:33:04PM 0 points [-]

There's another argument like chinese room, about giant archive of answers to all possible questions. Works by severely under-imagining size of the archive, too.

Agreed.