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Jiro comments on Come up with better Turing Tests - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 June 2014 10:47AM

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Comment author: Jiro 16 June 2014 10:19:23PM 0 points [-]

For the same reason that the test shouldn't try to simulate a human with poor English skills, it also shouldn't try to simulate a human who isn't willing to cooperate with a questioner. A random human off the street wouldn't answer the millipede question, but a random human recruited to take part in an experiment and told to answer reasonable questions probably would.