X-Message-Number: 8553
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 09:46:30 -0400
From: "John P. Pietrzak" <>
Subject: Re: If it has no wit, you must acquit
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Peter Merel wrote:
> John Pietrzak writes,
> 
> >Given an adequate supply of interrogators, the entire test is moot.
> 
> I'm afraid you miss the point: unless you have some way to demonstrate
> that general intelligence is anything but a social status, you must
> rely on a social convention to evaluate it.

But at this point, I would no longer care.  Once your definition of
intelligence involves a purely subjective measure, it passes outside
the realm of science.  (e.g., "Hey!  I did it!  I created an artificial
intelligence!  Meet my pet rock, Bob.  These N interrogators standing
behind me were unable to tell its answers apart from a human using
the Turing Test.")

John

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