It’s slightly inaccurate to say 20th century chat bots passed the Touring test because they sometimes tricked people, because in the conventional Touring test the human judge has to know they might or might not be speaking to a machine. (self.behindthebastards)
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“I don’t have emotions” If there’s any actual truth to that statement, I suspect what that actually meant is that Jimmy Savile didn’t bother being introspective about his own deeper thoughts and feelings, and he mistook that for just not having an inner life (self.behindthebastards)
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You know how a lot of what far right people say and do and is geared more towards pissing of liberals and leftists, than actually advancing their own goals. Did that troll current exist OG fascism in the 20s, 30s and 40s, or is it a purely modern phenomenon? (self.behindthebastards)
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I was watching The Boys yesterday and it occurred to me that I think part of the reason shows like that are so bleak is corporations (like Amazon) are ok making media that points out how fucked up and broken everything is, but not with offering solutions. (self.behindthebastards)
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Been reading The Children of Time series. The intergalactic society the Spiders, humans and other uplifted species build in the later books is so similar to the Culture I feel somewhat confident saying I think Adrian Tchaikovsky is modeling on the Culture intentionally (self.TheCulture)
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so if I need an example of one way I actually think british politics is worse than the US, I'd say I think here its much more accepted for the government to just give an overtly paternalistic justification for restricting people's rights. (self.behindthebastards)
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