We were discussing the British situation. How did we suddenly jump to Guantanamo?

Yes, but in the standard Turing test, the AI is then judged on how human it seems, not how insightful.

What's your edge? What makes you think you can write a better financial guide than some random planner from Fidelity or Schwab? He at least has the experience of having talked to customers.

Professional financial planners don't have much incentive to act in their customers' best interests. Even if they have the knowledge and experience to give good advice, it doesn't necessarily mean they actually do.

Perhaps the Turing test would work better if instead of having to pass for a human, the bot's insightfulness were rated and it had to be at the same level as a human's. Insightfulness seems harder to fake than "sounds superficially like a human" and it's what we care about anyway.

As a plus, it will make it easier for autistic people to pass the Turing test.

As a general rule, if you are linking to an external source, please don't mention irrelevant details about the author.

Relevant details, such as the fact the author is an ER doctor, provide evidence about the reliability of the information in the article.

Irrelevant details, such as the fact that the author is an objectivist, are at best just noise and at worst mind-killing distractions.

Why do you assume that the replica would be a zombie?

One workaround would be to assign high confidence only to beliefs for which you have read n academic papers on the subject.

This is dangerous, because people tend to use additional information primarily to support their existing opinion more than to improve it. See Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs.

Citation needed.

I would imagine it's a lot less voluntary if you ever plan on returning to the US.

Somewhat relatedly, I sometimes find using fictional characters (or stereotypes) as anti-inspiration. For example, I may ask myself "what would Sheldon Cooper do?" and then make sure not to do that.

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