The consequences of the Turing Test being perceived as some grand epoch-changing threshold among bazinga brains are exhausting, and continue to spread.
"AS SOON AS A CHATBOT NOVEL IS PASSED FOR BIG COMPANY PUBLISHING, THE WRITING SINGULARITY BEGINS" :soypoint-1: -actual fucking opinion of an actual fucking bazinga brain
You can make your calculator seem even more conscious by denigrating or denying the consciousness of living people around you by calling them "meat computers" or even "NPCs." Try it! It's fun! :sus:
If you really think about it, a computer and a complex phenomenon that no one is even remotely close to understanding and is demonstrably not a computer is basically the same thing
"But actually everything in the universe can be modeled by a computer therefore everything is a computer. No it doesn't matter that computers exist within the universe and all the universe's laws and processes apply to it, the computer transcends the universe and everything is a computer and/or is already a computer simulation. It's not like previous delusions about the transcendence of fire, the wheel, or clockwork this time. It really is everything." :morshupls:
Vulgar materialism may just be the ultimate brainworm. You think you're being smart by doing a lot of math because math usually is smart but you're not.
There's a hidden subjective conceit hidden in all those pretenses of coarse smug objectivity: they feel superior for being "honest" about the crude reductionism.
They were the “love is just chemicals” people 20 years ago and have decided to apply it to literally everything
"All relationships are transactions" is the fork in that path that lead straight toward cryptofascist incel :jordan-eboy-peterson: shit, too.
"What if everything is a simulation and most people are NPCs" talk is pure fash shit with fascist aims, too.
At least the other ideas had something elegant to them. Many things happen in cycles, metaphorically a wheel. Fire and heat are present in many things, and are essential to life. The world does work on systems all depending on each other and regularly repeating processes, like a clock. Computers are like the universe in the same way a drawing is like the universe.
I actually agree with you that fire, the wheel, clockwork, and computers are all part of the universe and can be visualized metaphorically to understand it better.
"Everything that is and will ever be is exactly like this one tool I like right now and nothing more" is a bazinga take to me, however.
Sorry if I worded the last part weird. I completely agree. I was saying the universe isn't meaningfully reflected or like the other things because it shows what you make it show only. It's like drawing a picture and then saying the whole world is the picture.
You can make your calculator pass the turing test by making it spell "boobs".
:volcel-judge: Not on my calculator-watch!