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.
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.
Oof, that’s not a good look for a supposed intellectual.
his brain has been shitting itself for a while now. cognitive decline comes for us all at some point, and more deeply for some.
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.
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.
Don’t forget his involvement with Epstein.
But delusions about AI are not that uncommon, they don’t need a stroke to be believable
I’ve read several of his books. He’s a great communicator but he’s never been particularly intelligent outside of explaining evolution.
Ever since his first public appearances he was a moron. As an atheist, his way to argue was always absolute cringe.
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.
What do you mean by “self-proclaiming”? I am an atheist because I don’t believe in a god(s). That’s it.
By definition that is what atheists believe - so I am not sure what your problem is here.
There’s a convenient word for that…
No… The typical nonstance atheist saying, “I just don’t believe that,” is not the same as saying, “I think that is bullshit.” Those are two very different statements. Just as the propositions: I do not believe in any gods is different from saying I do believe there are zero gods or I do believe the existence of any/all god(s) is impossible.
What a load of bollocks. I hope for your sake that some day you’ll learn some critical thinking.
All right bro keep arguing against other people’s imaginary Friends with all that critical thinking you got.
One day old account named after a Simpsons clown on an instance somewhat known for having troll accounts arguing atheism doesn’t exist and (elsewhere in this thread) implying that all Jews in the media are mossad agents.
I’m gonna go with “don’t feed the trolls” on this one, guys.
Wooosh. You one of those people that doesn’t get a joke even when you’re told it’s a joke, huh.
I didn’t say atheist don’t exist. I said it doesn’t mean anything. Most atheist have no stance(they’re not militant). They just don’t believe in something (which most of them don’t even know what it is they claim not to believe in) that’s it. Wookie-fucking-raaawwrrghh-do. Chewbacca makes more sense than atheism.
Do you know what an argument from ignorance is? Atheism.
And no I don’t think John Liebowitz is mossad. Jfc. Go touch grass.
What do you mean “no stance”? I agree that most atheists aren’t especially interested in having religious or philosophical arguments, but they still hold a position.
How do you work that out?
In a world where “no opinion” is a stance, every thought must be labeled as a stance, even no thought at all.
Just let it go
Nonstance atheism is also called weak atheism, and the amount of weak atheists that still want to argue about it amazes me.
I concur with you, “non-belief” is a position! Otherwise, what the hell are they arguing about? Ignorance itself?
The critique is that absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence. So if disbelief is justified only by “I haven’t seen proof,” then it risks becoming an argument from ignorance.
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I intentionally don’t block trolls so I can keep berating them in public
It’s your blood pressure lol
Fuck off
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.
Oh, wow, Evangelical atheism. Perhaps the worst form of atheism. Kind of like prescriptive nihilism.
He’s a fraud and a cunt
A truly hateful character
That’s not his point. His point is AI has reached a stochastic parrot level. The OG test was simply, “can you tell between a human or not?” Dawkins admits this line it’s exceptionally blurry at this point and better turing tests are needed.