Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by freemint on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:02AM (#32203426)

Is anything super natural is non falsifiable? Let's say we have a particular haunted house and the ghost moves 3 hand sized objects in the house around at 03:00 on his death day. This should be falsifiable.

Mythological beings have a degree of specificity and some degree of power. The more specific and the less capable a mythological being is of erasing those specificities the easier it is to falsify.

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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by vlovich123 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:01PM (#32207050)

Correct. Science only concerns itself with the natural world. Supernatural is by definition “outside nature”. From a strictly scientific perspective the parameters of the ghost just aren’t known to sufficient precision to start to try falsifying. The statement you’d actually be trying to falsify is “there’s no ghost” and the only way to falsify that is to see a ghost.

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