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Comment by gwd

I've always disagreed w/ Searle re the Chinese Room. My guess is that Searle never built an adder circuit from logic gates: combining irrational elements together into something rational is the core magic of computer science.

If you want to see someone asking humans questions where they consistently fail to be rational, to the extent that they sometimes seem to approximate a stochastic parrot, read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. (It might actually be interesting to give GPT-4 some of the questions in that book, to see how similar or different they are.)

parent gwd 3 years ago

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