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 References: <> 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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8553