Bugmaster comments on The flawed Turing test: language, understanding, and partial p-zombies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bugmaster 18 May 2013 08:52:50PM 0 points [-]

This is a circular argument, IMO. How can you tell whether you're talking to a whole brain emulation, or a bot designed to mimic a whole brain emulation ?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 May 2013 09:15:01AM 0 points [-]

By knowing its provenance. Maybe, when we get more sophisticated and knowledgeable about these things, by looking at its code.

In humans, when assessing whether they're lying or not, then knowing the details of their pasts (especially, for instance, knowing if they were trained to lie professionally or not) should affect your assessment of their performance.