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Comment author: jsteinhardt 11 June 2014 04:03:23PM 4 points [-]

From Turing's original paper:

Interrogator: In the first line of your sonnet which reads "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day," would not "a spring day" do as well or better?

Witness: It wouldn't scan.

Interrogator: How about "a winter's day," That would scan all right.

Witness: Yes, but nobody wants to be compared to a winter's day.

Interrogator: Would you say Mr. Pickwick reminded you of Christmas?

Witness: In a way.

Interrogator: Yet Christmas is a winter's day, and I do not think Mr. Pickwick would mind the comparison.

Witness: I don't think you're serious. By a winter's day one means a typical winter's day, rather than a special one like Christmas.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 June 2014 04:10:25PM *  1 point [-]

Yes, I think Turing was very mistaken in his impression of what an "average" interrogator would be like.

This compensated for his over-optimism on the progress of computers, giving him an ok prediction by chance.

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