The approach @twsh is taking (based on my ignorant, off-the-cuff reading of two posts, so…grain of salt here) seems to point the way toward being able to examine the internals of the allegedly intelligent thing while still respecting Turing’s argument that mechanism shouldn’t matter. Beauty may be entirely in the eye of the beholder, but conversation has •two• sides. Seems like there’s promise lurking here — at least to this philosophy dilettante’s ear.
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