ESRogs comments on Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Argument - Less Wrong

74 Post author: palladias 18 February 2013 05:05PM

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Comment author: JRMayne 18 February 2013 08:49:31PM 10 points [-]

Ha!

I think the post is excellent, and I appreciated shminux's sharing his mental walkthrough.

On that same front, I find the Never-Trust-A-[Fill-in-the-blank] idea just bad. The fact that someone's wrong on something significant does not mean they are wrong on everything. This goes the other way; field experts often believe they have similar expertise on everything, and they don't.

One quibble with the OP: I don't think a computer can pass a Turing Test, and I don't think it's close. The main issues with some past tests are that some of the humans don't try hard to be human; there should be a reward for a human who gets called a human in those tests.

Finally, I no longer understand the divide between Discuss and Main. If this isn't Main-worthy, I don't get it. If we're making Main something different... what is it?

Comment author: ESRogs 19 February 2013 05:18:49AM 5 points [-]

The difference between Discussion and Main is that Main is hard to find.

If it's in Main and not Recently Promoted, I don't know how you're supposed to ever see it -- is everybody else using RSS feeds or something?

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 19 February 2013 10:03:04AM 4 points [-]

I look at the sidebar on the right or visit http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts/

Comment author: palladias 19 February 2013 05:58:00AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I use an RSS for Main.