When Dawkins met Claude
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/52276726

Dawkins points out how the goalposts have been moved from the Turing test without justification and claims it can be viewed as a test of consciousness.

    • screaming in digital@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      his brain has been shitting itself for a while now. cognitive decline comes for us all at some point, and more deeply for some.

      • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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        3 months ago

        There’s a theory that he had a minor stroke at some time, possibly during the Covid pandemic, which subtly degraded his cognitive abilities, turning him from a somewhat aloof smart guy into the kind of boomer grandpa that gets pig-biting mad at the latest outrage bait. Him declaring that a LLM is an intelligent lady-friend would line up with this.

        • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org
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          3 months ago

          Dawkins was a grumpy old man long before Covid. He hasn’t had anything worthwhile to say since The Selfish Gene, and since at least 2010 he’s been largely pissed that people no longer acknowledge him as Pope of Atheism.

    • Pickleideas@lemmy.world
      292·
      3 months ago

      I’ve read several of his books. He’s a great communicator but he’s never been particularly intelligent outside of explaining evolution.

      • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
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        3 months ago

        All atheists are rather cringe. Who guess around self-proclaiming a label that literally means nothin? Are you aunicornist? Aleprechaun? Afairy? How silly.

        If you’re truly just agnostic… That’s a fair and humble admittance of ignorance.

        If you think the Bible is bullshit and the Quran is a lie, go with that. At least now you’re saying something meaningful relating to your actual beliefs.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          An atheist doesn’t simply disbelieve in the gods, they believe other people should also disbelieve in the gods. It’s a political stance as much as a belief. If someone doesn’t really care about religion, they’re not really an atheist imo - it requires that extra step.