Re:Researchers discover advanced language processing in the ...
by nothinkjustai on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:43PM
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Every significant argument has plenty of detractors, that doesn’t mean they’re right. Every argument I’ve heard to the contrary is unconvincing to me, and to the majority:
Re:Researchers discover advanced language processing in the ...
by slopinthebag on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:55PM
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> one of the most fallacious arguments ever offered and is rejected by all experts
Do you have any sources for the first claim? The second claim is of course trivially wrong.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/12/21/the-mystery-of-c...
"For [John Searle's] part, he has one argument, the Chinese Room, and he has been trotting it out, basically unchanged, for fifteen years. It has proven to be an amazingly popular number among the non-experts, in spite of the fact that just about everyone who knows anything about the field dismissed it long ago. It is full of well-concealed fallacies. By Searle’s own count, there are over a hundred published attacks on it. He can count them, but I guess he can’t read them, [...]"