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CuSithBell comments on AGI Quotes - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: lukeprog 02 November 2011 08:25AM

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Comment author: CuSithBell 02 November 2011 04:42:42PM 8 points [-]

I disagree.

What he's saying is: submarines traverse water, so it's irrelevant whether we call what they do "swimming". Likewise, if a machine can do the things that a thinking being can do, then it's irrelevant whether it's "actually" "thinking".

He refers to this as a settled question in the origin of the quote. Moreover, he capitalizes the terms in question, indicating he perceives the concept as an incorrect reification.